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https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2025/06/06/medicaid-cuts-trump-big- beautiful-bill/84011693007/
Perhaps you�ve heard: Republicans are about to kick millions of people off health insurance.
That claim is all over the news media as Congress debates the One Big
Beautiful Bill Act. Advocates on the left even say the proposed changes
will kill people.
Such claims have no basis in reality. The point is to frighten Republican lawmakers into giving up on necessary reforms.
Instead, the GOP should double down.
Congressional Budget Office is biased, and often wrong
The source for this fearmongering is the Congressional Budget Office. As
the Foundation for Government Accountability shows in our new research,
CBO staff consists largely of registered Democrats and the agency is often wrong in its projections.
Washington elites and their media allies like to hold up the CBO as an all-seeing oracle. In theory, it�s a nonpartisan federal agency inside
Congress that accurately predicts how legislation will play out in the
real world.
In reality, CBO is overwhelmingly staffed by Democrats and its findings
are less than trustworthy.
We painstakingly analyzed the voter registration of every CBO employee.
Our finding: A staggering 79% of CBO staff are Democrats. A mere 12% are Republicans. That�s actually worse than senior bureaucrats at the most
liberal federal agencies, including Housing and Urban Development, the
State Department and Health and Human Services.
And when you look at key CBO departments, the liberal bias is even more
stark. The Health Analysis Division is 93% Democrat and zero Republican.
That�s the department now driving the news about the dangers of the
Republican bill.
In other words, CBO may well be the most liberal government outfit in all
of Washington. And surprise, surprise: It does Democrats� bidding.
That fact should persuade Republicans to ignore CBO�s analysis of the One
Big Beautiful Bill Act. In May, CBO asserted that about 10 million people
would lose their Medicaid coverage by 2034 if the bill passed. CBO blames Republican reforms like Medicaid work requirements, more frequent
eligibility checks and the removal of illegal immigrants from Medicaid.
But think about what�s really happening. A group of Democratic bureaucrats
are criticizing Republican efforts to roll back Democratic priorities.
This isn�t nonpartisan policy analysis. It�s political damage control.
CBO projections were wrong on 'Obamacare'
And wouldn�t you know: The leftist CBO is frequently wrong.
The agency has a long history of underestimating the benefits of
Republican policies like tax cuts and health care reforms. The CBO also routinely minimizes the damage of Democratic policies, especially the
soaring cost of government expansions.
In 2010, when the Affordable Care Act passed, the CBO said only 13 million able-bodied adults would be covered under the law�s Medicaid expansion in
all 50 states. But within a decade, 50% more able-bodied adults had jumped
onto Medicaid, even though only two-thirds of states had expanded the
program.
CBO�s error made "Obamacare" look more affordable than it is, and
taxpayers have spent tens of billions of additional dollars on able-bodied adults who push vulnerable Americans and individuals with disabilities
back in line.
For more than a decade, CBO has been consistently wrong on Medicaid
expansion�s real-world impact, underestimating enrollment and the cost to taxpayers. But when CBO analyzed the Republican repeal of Obamacare�s individual mandate in 2017, it overestimated how many people would lose coverage. It said 4 million people would lose private health coverage and Medicaid in the first two years alone. But by 2020, about 13 million
people had gained coverage.
CBO could hardly have been more wrong. And the agency is still in charge
of making predictions.
Now, the CBO is once again warning about massive coverage losses, and
their media allies are dutifully repeating the assertion. But
congressional Republicans should see through the charade.
Case in point: CBO�s predictions about the One Big Beautiful Bill Act
include 1.6 million people enrolled in Medicaid in multiple states. They
won�t lose coverage in the state where they live, but CBO still counts
them among those losing coverage.
In addition, 200,000 �losses� are people who aren�t even on Medicaid. CBO
just assumes they�ll join in the years ahead.
GOP is doing the right thing with Medicaid
The truth is that Republicans are doing what�s right, morally and
fiscally. They�re requiring able-bodied adults to work as a condition of receiving Medicaid benefits. That will allow states to focus on Medicaid�s intended recipients such as individuals with disabilities.
Republicans are also removing ineligible people and illegal immigrants
from Medicaid rolls. CBO makes it sound like those coverage losses are
wrong, but what�s really wrong is letting millions of people take
advantage of taxpayers.
Republicans are looking out for Americans - taxpayers, individuals with disabilities and future generations. The Congressional Budget Office, on
the other hand, is looking out for the Democratic agenda of growing
government at any cost.
Republicans in the Senate should ignore the fearmongering and move forward
with the One Big Beautiful Bill Act as soon as possible.
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