On the one hand, the Medicaid cuts contemplated by the House will cost millions of Americans–many of them MAGA voters–their health insurance, and several GOP House members in swing districts their seats. On the other hand, pulling back from the cuts will force the GOP to either reduce the size of their tax cut or find another reliable source of revenue. That won’t be acceptable to the CLs in the House.
How will the circle be squared? By pushing responsibility on to state governments and pretending the cuts only address waste and fraud. That is unlikely to work, because the millions of people who lose their insurance will not identify themselves as either waste or fraud.