The Medicaid cut
The deepest Medicaid cut in 60 years — to help pay for a tax cut.
The 2025 law cuts $840 billion from Medicaid over ten years — the program that covers low-income families, disabled people, and most nursing-home care in America.
About 10.3 million people get pushed off the rolls by 2034 — more than half through new work-reporting paperwork that mostly removes eligible people who miss a form, not people dodging work.
The savings didn't shrink the deficit. They offset tax cuts that pay the richest tenth $13,600 a year. That's the transfer, in one sentence.
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They cut Medicaid deeper than any Congress in 60 years — to help cover a tax cut that pays the richest tenth $13,600 a year.
Receipts: CBO via KFF · CBPP