As GOP hardliners spent the weekend pushing party leaders to cut deeper into Medicaid in an effort to advance Donald Trump’s tax and border agenda, swing-district Republicans have been warning the president directly that it would cost him control of the House.

Trump has vowed to “love and cherish” Medicaid, but there’s an appetite among Republicans to make it harder to qualify to reduce the program’s cost which topped $616 billion in fiscal year 2023. Trump and Vice President JD Vance have emphasized that cuts to Social Security and Medicare are largely off the table except for fraud and abuse.

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At this early moment in Donald Trump’s second administration, all of the action has been in the executive branch. The various executive orders he has issued (generally sadistic, unconstitutional, or both) have drawn great scrutiny.