Rep. Tom MacArthur (R-NJ) resigned as co-chairman of the caucus of GOP moderates known as the Tuesday Group “in the wake of deep divisions among its members over the House Obamacare replacement bill he helped craft,” Politico reports.
Said MacArthur: “You can’t lead people where they don’t want to go. I think some people in the group just have a different view of what governing is.”
House Republican cuts to Medicaid in the American Health Care Act would hit New Jersey harder than any other state, thanks to a compromise brokered by Rep. Tom MacArthur (R-NJ) that led to the approval the bill, the Newark Star Ledger reports.
“The bill would leave 500,000 more Garden State residents without health insurance than under current law, and New Jersey no longer would get extra federal funding for expanding Medicaid.”
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