Delaware Senator Sarah McBride, a Democrat, bluntly put it to The Independent before Tuesday’s vote: “Regardless of what happens moving forward in this budget process, it is clear that the overwhelming majority of House Republicans want to cut Medicaid, they want to gut Medicaid.”.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune described the budget resolution that the House passed as “a first step in what will be a long process, and certainly not an easy one,” Politico noted.
Kentucky Senator Rand Paul told Politico: “Acquiescing to a $4 trillion increase in the debt ceiling is for me a non-starter … It basically acknowledges that this year the government’s going to be $2 trillion short.” Paul was the only member of his party to vote against the Senate’s budget framework.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said in a statement Wednesday that Tuesday night “almost every single House Republican signed their names to what would be the largest Medicaid cuts in American history.
After the House passed its budget resolution, Senate Majority Leader John Thune called it a ‘first step in what will be a long process, and certainly not an easy one’.
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