Hawley warns GOP Medicaid cuts are 'morally wrong and politically suicidal'

[Dulcinea]

(The Hill) Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) is warning against his own party’s push to slash Medicaid spending, just hours after House Republicans released legislation that could save billions of dollars and make millions of people lose health insurance coverage.

Hawley wrote in an op-ed published Monday in The New York Times that paying for President Trump’s domestic agenda by slashing health care for the working poor “is both morally wrong and politically suicidal.”

“Mr. Trump has promised working-class tax cuts and protection for working-class social insurance, such as Medicaid,” Hawley wrote. “But now a noisy contingent of corporatist Republicans — call it the party’s Wall Street wing — is urging Congress to ignore all that and get back to the old-time religion: corporate giveaways, preferences for capital and deep cuts to social insurance.”

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[Diamond_Dog]

1. What's this??? A Republican speaking the truth? What's his angle?

Maybe a visit from some of Trump’s goons will set him straight.

[tonkatoy8888]

6. My Senator

is playing a different game than the Trumpers, albeit with the same desired outcome. An authoritarian government, privatization of public services, and more money sucked up by the wealthy.

Trump is following the Project 2025 playbook and Hawley is using the Orban plan.

Look at Hungary. In order to keep unease about changes in the judicial system and loss of rights and the ability to fully participate in civil society Orban's government has brought in generous social services and other direct and indirect payments to people. It's sort of like China's contract with their people. Let us create an authoritarian surveillance state and we promise you modernization and a better living standard.

But back to Josh, just because he's doing what seems to be the right thing in this instance, he's still a little fascist.

[Blues Heron]

2. Running man says what?

[Raven123]

3. What? Hawley writing in the NYT?

I thought MAGA believed the Times was a part of the “Fake News” consortium. Hawley must be panicking. Works for me.

[BootinUp]

4. I guess fig leaves are running low. nt

[JBTaurus83]

5. I don't think you can classify people like Hawley

as a traditional Republican. He may not be on board with all of the Wall St give aways. It seems to me he is more of a religious zealot and authoritarian populist type. His agenda may at times be at odds with the "old" party. I think if he ran for president he would be scary because he would take positions like this to peel off a lot of the working poor who are otherwise evangelical, xenophobic, homophobic etc.

[BootinUp]

7. No need for constructing imaginative narratives

Slashing Medicaid in Missouri is not a popular position.

[Skittles]

8. a repuke, talking about what is "morally wrong"

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