“On February 25, I voted on the basis of a budget resolution, which protects social insurance, Medicare and Medicaid, while reducing expenses elsewhere.”
Rep. Nick Lalota (RN.Y.), in a YouTube film published on March 4, 2025
February 25 Nick Lalota (RN.Y.) voted for House budget solution This requires sharp cuts of expenses in a wide selection of presidency areas. Medicaid is one among the programs that could be threatened – catapulting it to the political debate center.
President Donald Trump insisted It won’t hurt the advantages of Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security, saying that his administration wants to eradicate the fraud. But the democrats pushed awayThe statement that the very size of the proposed cuts will cause damage to the Medicaid program, its registration and medical service providers.
KFF tracking survey He found widespread public support for Medicaid, which suggests that efforts to limit the program can face the political wind. KFF is a non -profit of health information that includes KFF Health News.
A doll that represents a part of Long Island, published a video For his voters explaining his position: “I voted on the basis of a budget resolution that protects social insurance, Medicare and Medicaid, while reducing expenses elsewhere.” Because most of his video focused on Medicaid, we too. We discovered that his statement on this respect was layered due to the mistaken signs and inaccuracies. However, in his film, Lalota advises his voters to get their information from him, saying, “I will always be honest with you.”
We asked the Laloty Office for information he used to support his statement. The budget resolution doesn’t limit these programs, he wrote in a press release sent by his communication advisor Mary O’Har. “Instead, it opens the door to protect Medicaid with the help of health solutions that ensure its availability of those who qualify, including removal of illegal from the projection, work requirements for full -length adults and elimination of waste, fraud and abuse.”
Let’s review what the resolution says and does, in addition to the changes that Medicaid may cause.
Explanation of the basics
Budget resolutions usually are not a law, but slightly plans that manage legislators regarding the provisions related to the budget. Resolution at home-approved with 217 Republicans Voting for this and 214 Democrats and one Republican against – this is barely one a part of the budget process. The Senate also has a saying, so changes are possible.
As it was written, the resolution strives to reduce expenditure in various areas supervised by various committees. In particular, he asks the House Energy and Trade Committee to present the proposal “to reduce the deficit by not less than USD 880,000,000 [$880 billion] Tax years from 2025 to 2034. “
He doesn’t say he protects Medicaid. The word medicaid just isn’t in the document. It doesn’t specify any specific actions in the program, corresponding to introducing work requirements for recipients. Legislators individually develop regulations to adjust the program to achieve the goals that reduce expenses.
Somewhat background: Medicaid is a state federal program that provides medical insurance for residents of lower income, in addition to payments to care homes for caring for seniors and disabled residents. Medicaid and a closely related kid’s medical health insurance program Over 79 million people.
Medicare is a federal program This provides medical health insurance for some disabled people and most individuals over 65 years of age. Over 68 million people were saved.
The resolution orders the Committee to develop a legislative language that would reduce expenses from the areas under its jurisdiction, including Medicaid and about half of Medicare.
Social insurance is principally supervised in the Chamber by the Committee for Method and Funds. The panel also divides jurisdiction over Medicare with energy and trade.
Political experts and Congress Budget Office They said that after removing Medicare from consideration, there just isn’t enough jurisdiction of the committee to reduce $ 880 billion without significantly reduced Medicaid. (Medicare is mostly considered the third rail, because its beneficiaries are a robust voting block).
Indeed, from the forecasted expenses of USD 8.8 based on a period of 10 years, Medicaid accounts for USD 8.2 trillion, or 93%.
“Even if the Committee eliminated all expenses other than Medicare and other than Medicaid, they would still have to lower Medicaid by over $ 700 billion,” said Alice Burns, deputy director of the KFF program on Medicaid and uninsured.
Adding work requirements – most medicaid recipients have a job – it would not bring this level of savings and may increase the state costs. Other cuts suggested by republicans, including limiting federal expenditure on registration, reducing the federal matching of dollars and eliminating the use of taxes from the supplier, which you utilize to pay for a part of Medicaid expenditure, may force you to reduce expenses or find recent sources of income.
“Lowering Medicaid may mean eliminating insurance for kids, parents, working adults or those that might have long -term care; limitation of advantages; or reduction of payment rates for health plans or suppliers. These selections may occur at a time when the increase in state revenues slows down, and most of the states are facing the requirements for transferring balanced budgets, according to the evaluation of Redowitz, according to evaluation Vice President of the Vice President of KFF on Medicaid and Uninesed.
Edwin Park, a research professor at the center of youngsters and families at the University of Georgetown University, if the house was introduced if the budget resolution adopted at home would be extensive and significantly change the net security program.
He noticed the growing opposition to such large cuts Medicaid from “beneficiaries and parents of disabled children, families with parents in nursing homes and healthcare.”
“Medicaid cuts are very unpopular even among Trump voters,” he said.
He noted that the opposition to the cuts Medicaid helped to kill the attempt to repeal the Act on inexpensive care during the first Trump administration, noted Joseph Antos, a senior retired member of the American Enterprise Institute.
Antos believes that the current goal limited to expenses is unreal and probably won’t survive the effort to mix the budget plan at home with what the Senate wants to do.
“Ultimately, the problem is that you can’t get that much from Medicaid,” said Antos.
The concentrate on immigrants without legal status as a way to reduce federal expenditure on Medicaid also misleads.
Many statesIn this New York, it offers insurance to children or adults, no matter immigration status, but can only use state money to pay for such programs.
“States cannot use federal funds to cover undocumented immigrants,” said Burns. Removing them “will do nothing for the purposes of the deficit reduction.”
Our ruling
Lalota said: “On February 25, I voted on the basis of a budget resolution, which protects social insurance, Medicare and Medicaid, while reducing expenses elsewhere.”
His statement is inaccurate and poorly characterizes the laws and the language contained in the budget resolution, making a misunderstanding of what his voice supported.
The 32-line sentence, which is managed by the Energy and Trade Committee, to attract $ 880 billion inside 10 years of programs that authorizes, doesn’t include any security, handrails or specific suggestions for the panel.
We assess this false claim.
Sources:
Rep. Nick Lalota, movie videoMarch 4, 2025
Official, the House of United States representatives, “Roll Call 50 | H. Con account number. Res. 14“February 25, 2025
Newsweek, “Donald Trump issues social insurance, Medicaid update”March 10, 2025
Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, press releaseMarch 16, 2025
Kff, February tracking probeMarch 7, 2025
Medicaid.gov, “October 2024 Data on registration Medicaid & ChipAccess to March 17, 2025.
Congress Budget Office, Letter to representatives. Brendan Boyle and Frank Pallone, March 5, 2025
Kff Quick takes, “When Governors meet in DC, possible federal Medicaid restrictions flow into as a giant problem of state financing”February 20, 2025
KFF “Key facts regarding immigrants’ medical health insuranceJanuary 15, 2025.
Telephone interview with Joseph OldSenior Emeritus, American Enterprise Institute, March 17, 2025.
Telephone interview with Edwin ParkResearch professor at the Center for Children and Families, Georgetown University, 17 March 2025.
Telephone interview with Alice Burns, Director of the Medicaid and the Unsural program, KFF, March 17, 2025.
