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Medicaid Cuts Are Not Popular

May 6, 2025 at 6:29 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

A new Meeting Street Insights (R) poll finds 68% of voters said cutting Medicaid benefits to pay for tax cuts is a bad idea — including 44% of Republicans.

And 52% of voters said they’d be less likely to vote for a member of Congress who supports Medicaid cuts.

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