GOP senator suggests health care should be stripped from 35 million Americans
Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) argued that at least 35 million Medicaid recipients should lose their health care coverage.
During a Monday interview on Newsmax, host Marc Lotter noted that Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) opposed the One Big Beautiful Bill because it would break President Donald Trump's campaign promise not to cut Medicaid.
"We're not cutting Medicaid for those that Medicaid was designed for," Mullin insisted. "There's 35 million people that live below the poverty line inside the United States. There's over 70 million people signed up for Medicaid."
That, he suggested, means half of those signed up are not eligible.
"Now, you're going to tell me there's not room to make cuts to actually have it in place, Medicaid in place for those that it was actually designed for," he added. "There's plenty of room there."
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimated that over 10 million people would lose health care if Trump's spending bill becomes law.