Sen Josh Hawley (R-MO) repeated his call to remove Medicaid cuts from President Donald Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill.
"We've got 1.3 million people, Steve, who are on Medicaid, including hundreds of thousands of kids," Hawley said of Missouri during a Tuesday interview with MAGA influencer Steve Bannon. "Most of these people are not folks who are deadbeats, staying at home, not working. These are working people who are on Medicaid because they don't have a job that gives them insurance on the job."
Hawley blamed Democrats for "destroying our economy," which he claimed forced employers not to offer health care.
"So they're on Medicaid," he explained. "These are Trump people, these are our people. These are the people who voted for Donald Trump in the state of Missouri by 18 percentage points."
"Medicaid is all they got," the senator added. "And that's not because they're lazy, it's not because they're bums. These are good working people, Trump voters, but in today's economy, because of what the globalists have done to our economy and our industrial sector, this is all that they've got."
"If you're paying in with your tax dollars and you can't otherwise afford something, then we ought to keep your Medicaid."
Trump's spending bill would reportedly strip healthcare from more than 10 million Medicaid recipients nationwide.
