{"id":8780,"date":"2025-05-03T08:23:35","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T08:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/hard-liners-medicaid-letter-has-ties-to-gop-think-tank-2\/"},"modified":"2025-05-03T08:23:35","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T08:23:35","slug":"hard-liners-medicaid-letter-has-ties-to-gop-think-tank-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/hard-liners-medicaid-letter-has-ties-to-gop-think-tank-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Hard-liners\u2019 Medicaid letter has ties to GOP think tank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A letter signed by 20 hard-line House Republicans calling for deep cuts to Medicaid in the GOP&rsquo;s domestic policy megabill appears to be written at least in part by a conservative think tank with ties to top Republican leaders. Rep. Chip Roy of Texas led the letter and promoted it publicly but digital metadata embedded in a PDF copy circulated inside the House and obtained by Blue Light News lists the author as Brian Blase&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/05\/02\/congress\/chip-roy-medicaid-letter-paragon-health-00324249\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A letter signed by 20 hard-line House Republicans calling for deep cuts to Medicaid in the GOP&rsquo;s domestic policy megabill appears to be written at least in part by a conservative think tank with ties to top Republican leaders. Rep. Chip Roy of Texas led the letter and promoted it publicly but digital metadata embedded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8780","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=8780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}