MI-SEN: 260,000 Michiganders to lose health care as GOP Senate candidate Mike Rogers cheers on the cuts
During a radio interview last week, Michigan Republican candidate for U.S. Senate Mike Rogers repeated the widely debunked lie that President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) tax law will not kick citizens off Medicaid.
During an interview on “Michigan’s Big Show Starring Michael Patrick Shiels” on Oct. 13, Shiels brought up congressional Democrats’ attempt to leverage the current federal government shutdown to reverse the deep cuts the OBBB makes to Medicaid. Democrats note if the Medicaid cuts go through, millions of U.S. citizens nationally would lose Medicaid coverage.
“And they keep making — they keep restating, ‘Oh no, Medicaid is going to go—’ That’s not true,” Rogers responded to Shiels. “We are here to protect it for people who should have it: children, pregnant women, seniors. I mean, that is what the program was designed for.”
This is false, according to multiple nonpartisan experts. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated in an August report that 7.5 million people are projected to lose health coverage through Medicaid through 2034. And the health care nonprofit organization KFF estimates 260,000 of those will be from Rogers’ home state of Michigan. These numbers are similar to estimated cuts other projections found before Republicans passed the OBBB into law. Rogers publicly signaled support for the OBBB while Congress debated it.
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