{"id":10719,"date":"2025-06-28T19:16:50","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T19:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-pollster-warns-senate-gop-against-deeper-medicaid-cuts\/"},"modified":"2025-06-28T19:16:50","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T19:16:50","slug":"trump-pollster-warns-senate-gop-against-deeper-medicaid-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-pollster-warns-senate-gop-against-deeper-medicaid-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump pollster warns Senate GOP against deeper Medicaid cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Jim McLaughlin, one of President Donald Trump\u2019s top pollsters, said Hill Republicans should nix Senate Republicans\u2019 deeper Medicaid cuts in the megabill or risk deep backlash from voters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Senate needs to go back to the House version on Medicaid in the [One Big Beautiful Bill Act], just like the president wants,\u201d Jim McLaughlin, who runs McLaughlin &amp; Associates, told Blue Light News Saturday. <\/p>\n<p>He continued: \u201cThe working class Americans who gave President Trump his overwhelming victory as well as majorities in the House and Senate deserve nothing less.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/06\/28\/congress\/gop-moderates-medicaid-megabill-00431376\" target=\"_blank\">More than a dozen at-risk House Republicans<\/a> are deeply alarmed at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/06\/28\/megabill-reconciliation-parliamentarian-00431082\" target=\"_blank\">the Senate\u2019s decisions<\/a> to keep its deeper Medicaid cuts in newly unveiled text, including the politically explosive provider tax.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re warning they won\u2019t support the bill unless the Medicaid language moves closer to the House text.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim McLaughlin, one of President Donald Trump\u2019s top pollsters, said Hill Republicans should nix Senate Republicans\u2019 deeper Medicaid cuts in the megabill or risk deep backlash from voters. \u201cThe Senate needs to go back to the House version on Medicaid in the [One Big Beautiful Bill Act], just like the president wants,\u201d Jim McLaughlin, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}