{"id":18421,"date":"2025-07-01T18:04:37","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T18:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=18421"},"modified":"2025-07-01T18:04:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T18:04:38","slug":"tillis-senate-bill-breaks-trumps-promise-on-medicaid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=18421","title":{"rendered":"Tillis: Senate bill breaks Trump\u2019s promise on Medicaid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;Tillis \u2014 who&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/tillis-becomes-third-gop-senator-190725810.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">voted against the bill<\/a>&nbsp;in a key procedural vote Saturday night and announced Sunday he&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/tillis-won-t-run-reelection-173430307.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">would not run for reelection<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 delivered a scathing rebuke of the president\u2019s agenda-setting bill in a Senate floor speech, explaining his position and pledging to withhold his vote unless his concerns about drastic cuts to Medicaid are addressed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhat do I tell 663,000 people in two years or three years, when President Trump breaks his promise by pushing them off of Medicaid because the funding\u2019s not there anymore, guys? I think the people in the White House \u2026 advising the president are not telling him that the effect of this bill is to break a promise,\u201d Tillis said in his floor speech.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/tillis-senate-bill-breaks-trump-024237867.html\">https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/tillis-senate-bill-breaks-trump-024237867.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Tillis \u2014 who voted against the bill in a key procedural vote Saturday night and announced Sunday he would not run for reelection \u2014 delivered a scathing rebuke of the president\u2019s agenda-setting bill in a Senate floor speech, explaining his position and pledging to withhold his vote unless his concerns about drastic cuts to Medicaid are addressed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat do I tell 663,000 people in two years or three years, when President Trump breaks his promise by pushing them off of Medicaid because the funding\u2019s not there anymore, guys? I think the people in the White House \u2026 advising the president are not telling him that the effect of this bill is to break a promise,\u201d Tillis said in his floor speech.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/tillis-senate-bill-breaks-trump-024237867.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[905,542,221,81,334,73,341,865,170,150],"class_list":["post-18421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-bill","tag-congress","tag-donald-trump","tag-health","tag-health-insurance","tag-healthcare","tag-medicaid","tag-senate","tag-trump","tag-welfare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18422,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18421\/revisions\/18422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}