Sen. Josh Hawley is sounding the alarm that Republicans should avoid deep cuts to Medicaid in the budget reconciliation process.
In an op-ed published in The New York Times on Monday, the Missouri Republican senator took aim at what he called the “party’s Wall Street wing” for advocating to have the federal program face deep cuts.
The op-ed comes as the House Commerce and Energy Committee will mark up the Medicaid portion of the budget reconciliation text on Tuesday. Hawley himself was subject to an article May 2 in The Wall Street Journal that took him to task for purportedly flip-flopping on the issue.
In his editorial column, the Missouri senator noted that Medicaid serves “over 70 million Americans, including well over 1 million residents of Missouri.”
Hawley described the extensive support for the program in his home state. Missouri enshrined…
