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(170,353 posts)
Thu Jul 17, 2025, 02:21 PM Jul 17

GOP's Josh Hawley pushes to undo the Medicaid cuts he just voted for

Two weeks after the Missouri Republican voted for the megabill with sweeping Medicaid cuts, the GOP senator unveiled a bill to undo what he did.

As Josh Hawley unveils a bill to undo the Medicaid cuts he just voted for, I’m reminded of a St. Louis Post-Dispatch editorial from last fall:

“Beyond any partisan considerations, Josh Hawley is quite possibly the worst sitting senator in America right now.” www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2025-07-16T13:01:27.687Z

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/gops-josh-hawley-pushes-undo-medicaid-cuts-just-voted-rcna219053

As NBC News reported, one of the senators who helped pass the far-right package now wants to undo at least some of the Medicaid cuts before they take effect:

Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., introduced a bill to reverse some of the key Medicaid provisions in the party’s megabill that he voted for and Trump signed into law earlier this month. Hawley wants to double the fund to rural hospitals, from $50 billion to $100 billion, and ‘repeal the provider tax moratorium and the future reduction of provider tax authority in the reconciliation bill,’ according to the text of his proposed legislation.


.....Indeed, consider a brief timeline of recent events.

June 28: Hawley criticizes his party’s Medicaid cuts, declaring, “I think, frankly, my party needs to do some soul-searching. If you want to be a working-class party, you’ve got to deliver for working-class people. You cannot take away health care from working people. And unless this is changed going forward, that is what will happen in coming years.”

July 1: Hawley votes for the megabill that includes hundreds of billions of dollars in Medicaid cuts, which he'd denounced three days earlier.

July 9: Hawley publicly condemns the Medicaid cuts in the legislation he supported the previous week.

July 15: Hawley introduces legislation to pare back some of the Medicaid cuts he helped pass two weeks earlier.


....Last fall, the editorial board of The St. Louis Post-Dispatch told readers that the Missouri Republican has “an unparalleled record of demagoguery on the Senate floor, where he endlessly spews faux-populist sound and fury signifying nothing.” The editors concluded, “Beyond any partisan considerations, Josh Hawley is quite possibly the worst sitting senator in America right now.”
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GOP's Josh Hawley pushes to undo the Medicaid cuts he just voted for (Original Post) LetMyPeopleVote Jul 17 OP
Wants to have his cake and eat it too? Is he planning to run for something besides re-election? Attilatheblond Jul 17 #1
Sorry Josh. NCDem47 Jul 17 #2
Flip floppers, one and all. LuckyLib Jul 17 #3
Just so I'm clear... he's introducing a bill....to repeal the bill... he voted for....two weeks ago? LetMyPeopleVote Jul 18 #4
Hawley is an idiot LetMyPeopleVote Jul 18 #5

NCDem47

(3,075 posts)
2. Sorry Josh.
Thu Jul 17, 2025, 03:10 PM
Jul 17

You own it. No amount of backpedaling will wash the stink off. Now, will MO voters care?

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