It was a BRUTAL smackdown on Capitol Hill at present when Well being and Human Providers Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. torched Democrat Rep. Josh More durable (D-CA) over the left’s drained lies about “Medicaid cuts.”
The alternate occurred throughout a Senate Well being, Schooling, Labor and Pensions listening to at 1:30 p.m. ET, the place RFK Jr. testified on the White Home’s funds request below the so-called “Massive Lovely Invoice” — a $500 million bundle to finish his signature MAHA (Make America Wholesome Once more) goals.
However when Rep. More durable tried to attain low-cost political factors by accusing the administration of slashing Medicaid and abandoning the poor, RFK Jr. unleashed the details.
Rep. Josh More durable (D-CA):
About half of my district is on Medicaid. The latest funds that’s being mentioned within the Home proper now would go away 50,000 folks in my neighborhood with out medical health insurance. Secretary Kennedy, my query for you is: why do you assume {that a} neighborhood like mine doesn’t deserve entry to the identical primary well being care supplied by Medicaid that you simply benefited from?RFK Jr.:
I do imagine that. I do imagine in that. That’s the design of the Medicaid program.Rep. Josh More durable (D-CA):
Do you disagree with the cuts which are being proposed for Medicaid proper now?RFK Jr.:
Oh, the cuts to— I don’t know when you perceive this or whether or not you’re simply mouthing the Democratic speaking factors. The cuts to Medicaid are for fraud, waste, and abuse. I’ll let you know what which means. It implies that due to Doge, we have been in a position to decide— and it’s about 8 million individuals who could be affected— that there are one million people who find themselves claiming Medicaid from a number of states. That’s unlawful. It’s theft. You’re not allowed to try this. There are one other million people who find themselves amassing each below Obamacare and Medicaid.Rep. Josh More durable (D-CA):
Mr. Secretary, that has nothing to do with the funds that’s truly being proposed within the Home.RFK Jr.:
These are the one cuts which are being made. These are the one cuts which are being made to Medicaid.Rep. Josh More durable (D-CA):
That’s not true.RFK Jr.:
Sure, it’s. There are one other million unlawful aliens. We introduced a rule yesterday: we’re not going to pay unlawful aliens anymore. And guess what Gavin Newsom did this morning? He stated, “We’re going to take all of the unlawful aliens off the California Medicaid rolls as a result of the feds aren’t paying for them anymore.” A lot for compassion.
WATCH:
Rep. Josh More durable (D-CA): “Do you disagree with the cuts which are being proposed for Medicaid proper now?”
HHS Secretary RFK Jr: “I don’t know when you perceive this or whether or not you’re simply mouthing the democratic speaking factors, cuts to Medicaid are fraud, waste and… pic.twitter.com/fy6fjb8GXG
— DeVory Darkins (@devorydarkins) Might 14, 2025
