Axios: Trump tells House GOP not to "f**k around" with Medicaid

[Dennis Donovan]

Axios - Trump tells House GOP not to "f**k around" with Medicaid

Andrew Solender
10 mins ago

President Trump warned congressional Republicans on Tuesday not to "f**k around" with Medicaid, a stark pushback to conservative lawmakers demanding steeper cuts to the program in "one big, beautiful bill."

Why it matters: Trump is already floating political retribution for Republican holdouts who don't get in line.

• He also tore into Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), who has been a firm "no" on the bill throughout the process, blasting him publicly and privately as a "grandstander" and saying he should be "voted out of office."
• Trump also warned the GOP's blue state holdouts not to push too hard on the SALT deduction cap.

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[Walleye]

1. It's too bad none of the "moderate Republicans" are willing or able to do an intervention here

Their leader is just Batshit crazy. And they know it

[gab13by13]

5. There are no moderates, and there are no Republicans,

they are Magats who have ceded power to Krasnov.

[Walleye]

6. Yes, I think I was being a bit sarcastic

[newdeal2]

2. Don't mess with his tax breaks

Or you’ll be getting a one way flight to Libya on his new jet!

[Omnipresent]

3. Trump is probably confused again.

He has no use for people on medicade.

[gab13by13]

4. Krasnov is just covering his ass,

he will sign that horrible bill with cuts to Medicaid and then blame Congress.

[kacekwl]

7. Number one, trump always lies. Number two

you think those really running the 2025 plan listen to him.

[spanone]

8. Such a classless act.

Now he can say 'I told them (wink wink) not to fuck with Medicaid'.

[louis-t]

9. We're in bizarro world.

He warns and threatens his own, yet he really knows nothing about economics. He's a blowhard.

[brush]

10. Yep, he's going on past admins from the early 20th cen. and the '30s whose...

admins usurp Congressional power and installed tariffs as the answer to our economic woes. Recession and the Great Depression resulted.

TSF is a moron, and the cowardly rethus who have ceded their power to him are no help.

[BoRaGard]

11. "reportedly" - is this just more G.O.P. propaganda chum?

cannot trust them