Fox News falsely denies GOP's ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ will impact Medicaid while defending cuts in the bill
On Fox News, network hosts and guests — including multiple Trump administration officials and Republican members of Congress — have repeatedly pushed false claims about cuts to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act marketplaces in the GOP’s “One Big Beautiful Bill,” which is estimated to cause nearly 12 million Americans to lose their health insurance and cut nearly $1 trillion from Medicaid funding over the next decade.
Some of these figures have completely denied that the Medicaid cuts exist, calling claims that people will lose health insurance coverage under the GOP bill “ridiculous” or “nonsense.” Others have admitted that the cuts exist, but insist that they will only impact “waste, fraud, and abuse” — citing undocumented immigrants and able-bodied people who they say should be working as examples.
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