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\n West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey is among 19 Republican governors of states that stand to lose federal Medicaid funds if Congress passes the tax bill with proposed cuts to the program.
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The last time a Republican-controlled Congress and President Donald Trump moved to slash Medicaid spending, in 2017, a key political force stood in their way: GOP governors.<\/p>\n

Now, as Congress steamrolls toward passing historic Medicaid cuts of about $1 trillion over 10 years<\/a> through Trump’s tax and spending legislation, red state governors are saying little publicly about what it does to health care \u2014 even as they face reductions that will punch multibillion-dollar holes in their states’ budgets<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Medicaid, a program jointly run by states and the federal government, covers more than 70 million low-income or disabled people, including nearly half of the nation’s children. Republicans say the $900 billion-a-year program was allowed to grow too large under Democrats Barack Obama and Joe Biden by adding nondisabled adults they say don’t deserve government assistance<\/a>, and they have long sought to scale it back.<\/p>\n