Republicans Working On Trump's 'big, Beautiful Bill' Want Cuts To Medicaid, Food Stamps

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Negotiations continued in Congress as Republicans aimed to pass President Donald Trump's "one big, beautiful bill."

Democrats accused Republicans of slashing Medicaid to make way for tax cuts for the wealthy, but Republicans said all it does is root out fraud.

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Republican Rep. Brett Guthrie, of Kentucky, was among the conservatives who argued that the bill's cuts don't go far enough to 'stop the billions of dollars of waste, fraud, and abuse in the Medicaid program."

Republican Sen. Josh Hawley turned into Democrats' most unexpected ally when he published "Don't Cut Medicaid," an op-ed in the New York Times .