With the president’s self-imposed July 4 deadline just a week away, Gov. Bob Ferguson berated President Donald Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ on Thursday over controversial cuts to Medicaid.
Ferguson’s Tri-Cities press conference coincided with a U.S. Senate parliamentarian ruling out a few of those cuts, particularly around eligibility for immigrants and gender-affirming health care.
Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough ruled that those provisions and others around Trump’s agenda violated the Byrd rule. The procedure requires those cuts to be directly tied to the budget, not ideological reforms, to pass the reconciliation bill with a simple majority.
“These Medicaid cuts are cruel and will harm many thousands of Washingtonians, all to provide tax breaks for the wealthiest,” Ferguson said. “Republicans in Congress are proposing about a trillion dollars in cuts over the next 10 years, including the largest cut to Medicaid in history.”
While Trump’s bill includes extensive cuts to federal spending, nonpartisan estimates from the Congressional Budget Office suggest it could increase the national deficit by around $3 trillion.
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