Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., introduces a new bill to repeal some of the Medicaid cuts in Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill, which he voted for. "Now is the time to prevent any future cuts to Medicaid from going into effect," Hawley says. Full text 👇
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While he’s at it, how about a massive increase in taxes targeting the wealthy?
jul 15, 2025, 9:44 pm • 15 0 • view
He could have stopped the cut.
jul 15, 2025, 5:24 pm • 12 0 • view
Performative BS
jul 15, 2025, 5:24 pm • 59 1 • view
The time to prevent it was before you voted for the bill, you absolute corncob.
jul 15, 2025, 9:05 pm • 116 1 • view
Hawley is a cornhole.
jul 15, 2025, 9:54 pm • 13 0 • view
Never forget www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_yZ...
jul 16, 2025, 12:09 am • 0 0 • view
Good, let’s repeal them
jul 15, 2025, 6:42 pm • 1 0 • view
The scam: Pass "One Big Beautiful Bill" by simple majority in the Senate since it is a "reconciliation bill", which meant it had to be somewhat "budget neutral". The only way to balance the tax cuts was with Medicaid cuts. Which is going to kill them in the midterm elections.
jul 16, 2025, 3:55 am • 5 0 • view
Solution? Restore some of the Medicaid cuts with a stand-alone bill. This doesn't have to be "reconciliation", since of course the Democrats will jump on board. Now in the midterms they can point to their vote to restore Medicaid. Its all a scam on the American people. Rinse and repeat.
jul 16, 2025, 3:55 am • 9 1 • view
Idiots
jul 16, 2025, 3:58 am • 0 0 • view
Hawley could have voted "No" when it mattered. This is some performative nonsense from a coward.
jul 15, 2025, 10:24 pm • 0 0 • view
Carve outs are how they will keep the base at bay
jul 16, 2025, 5:24 am • 0 0 • view
Kowtowing lickspittle craven coward, jumping on a bandwagon like the turtle giving the scorpion a ride across the river. He knew what the Convicted Felon in the White House was. Everyone who supported him, who sought his endorsement, who voted for him, knew.
jul 15, 2025, 5:28 pm • 3 0 • view
In the meantime, hospitals who largely depend on Medicaid are already shutting down or cutting back severely in anticipation of the cuts. Too late, Hawley. You had your chance. Patients are already desperately calling your office, right? As the deaths mount, what will you do? Run? Pray?
jul 15, 2025, 6:48 pm • 2 0 • view
a) Doing this to pretend he was always against the cuts, and will now blame any cuts on Dems who don’t vote for his bs bill; and b) were his bill to pass, none of the BBB would be fiscally possible. #GOPKilledUSA
jul 15, 2025, 5:36 pm • 1 0 • view
jul 15, 2025, 9:10 pm • 5 0 • view
Republicans needed the Medicaid cuts in the bill to be able to pass it without filibuster in the Senate. Now, they can add the cost back in with help from Democrats who never wanted the cuts. Nice workaround.
jul 15, 2025, 9:58 pm • 0 0 • view
That reminds me of the last time he talked about getting rid of the Medicaid cuts, and then voted for them.
jul 15, 2025, 9:41 pm • 0 0 • view
Hawley was against it before he was for it before he was against it. Somewhere, John Kerry is saying “Dayum!”
jul 15, 2025, 5:28 pm • 7 0 • view
How about just repealing the whole thing okay great thanks buddy keep up the good work.
jul 15, 2025, 11:58 pm • 0 0 • view
Yeah, or we could stop voting for Republicans and fix the problem once and for all.
jul 15, 2025, 10:17 pm • 0 0 • view
So are we gonna say this POS saved Medicaid and put his name on the bill?
jul 16, 2025, 3:20 am • 0 0 • view
And the people of Missouri could have voted Hawley out of office, but for some stupid reason they re-elected him.
jul 15, 2025, 5:32 pm • 3 0 • view
yeah man, its almost like the National democratic party absolutely abandoned fundraising at all here and just expects us to run candidates solely on vibes and goodwill.
jul 15, 2025, 10:20 pm • 0 0 • view
Local arsonist returns to scene of fire, offers to help put out the flames
jul 16, 2025, 4:26 am • 11 1 • view
People will likely die BECAUSE of his vote for trumps bill. Now he wants DEMOCRATS to save his constituents?
jul 16, 2025, 2:40 pm • 2 0 • view
Another cynical move by a spineless Republican. He should have stood up for his constituents and not voted for the cuts in the first place.
jul 15, 2025, 5:24 pm • 16 1 • view
they are scared scared for 2026
jul 15, 2025, 5:58 pm • 0 0 • view
Running away from his vote.
jul 15, 2025, 5:29 pm • 8 1 • view
What a slimeball. He knew about the cuts and he voted for the bill.
jul 15, 2025, 10:08 pm • 1 0 • view
"NOW IS THE TIME TO PAY FOR THE FOOD!" *pretends to reach for wallet*
jul 15, 2025, 6:32 pm • 1 0 • view
Then was the time.
jul 15, 2025, 5:40 pm • 0 0 • view
He must be up for recapturing his seat in 2026.
jul 15, 2025, 8:17 pm • 0 0 • view
He’s doing it only to be able to claim that he tried when it fails (it will clearly fail and he knows it). If he is so against Medicaid cuts he should have voted against the original bill.
jul 15, 2025, 5:44 pm • 1 0 • view
pathetic
jul 15, 2025, 9:57 pm • 0 0 • view
What about the insane 80 hour work requirements to stay on medicaid? Is that included?
jul 17, 2025, 10:10 am • 0 0 • view
What a loser. Truly just a worm 🐛 it’s baffling he’s not voted out but maga loves torture.
jul 15, 2025, 9:22 pm • 1 1 • view
seriously......what a clown. vote for cuts, then introduce a bill to try and stop the cuts? Honestly, brilliant politics when your peeps only get their news from Fox. Still makes him a very small man.
jul 16, 2025, 2:03 am • 1 0 • view
I smell desperation.
jul 15, 2025, 10:41 pm • 18 0 • view
I doubt it will go anywhere but at least he can say “he tried” for the sake of future campaigning.
jul 15, 2025, 10:43 pm • 14 0 • view
MO is the Show Me state. Good luck, Josh-y.
jul 15, 2025, 11:28 pm • 8 0 • view
I can already see it... republicans and democrats will introduce bills to protect their states, but only republican bills will get voted on and passed. Part of the plan, methinks
jul 16, 2025, 2:45 pm • 1 0 • view
Insanity
jul 15, 2025, 8:34 pm • 0 0 • view
What in the actual what?
jul 15, 2025, 5:28 pm • 1 0 • view
This is lip service. I doubt it passes but instead provides cover for him when the cuts actually happen.
jul 15, 2025, 5:26 pm • 11 0 • view
It’s going to play into the hands of the Democrats. When someone on the opposing side introduces a bill that undoes the cuts that’s a sign of terrible policy and politics.
jul 15, 2025, 5:33 pm • 3 0 • view
HAHAJAHAHA
jul 15, 2025, 5:58 pm • 0 0 • view
They’re all such assholes.
jul 15, 2025, 5:27 pm • 4 0 • view
say one thing and vote another - never let them know what you are really for....MO voters, wake up?
jul 15, 2025, 9:01 pm • 1 1 • view
Uhhh the time was when they voted on it.
jul 15, 2025, 5:58 pm • 2 0 • view
He's trying to repeal something he just voted for.
jul 16, 2025, 1:01 pm • 3 0 • view
He voted for it before he was against it. Sound familiar?
jul 15, 2025, 6:00 pm • 3 0 • view
If it‘s not part of budget reconciliation, can it even get through with only 50 votes? And if it takes 60, who’s he even kidding?
jul 15, 2025, 5:44 pm • 2 0 • view
Why didn't you point out that this bill requires more votes to pass than the bill Hawley voted for, which included the Medicaid cuts? That means this is very unlikely to pass and is just a stunt by Hawley to pretend he actually wants to repeal the cuts. STOP DOING FREE PR FOR FASCISTS!
jul 15, 2025, 10:56 pm • 5 1 • view
What an ass hat.
jul 15, 2025, 8:31 pm • 4 0 • view
The Medicaid Expansion Initiative (Amendment 2) was added to Missouri's constitution by the voters in 2021. This constitutional mandate states that the state legislature is legally obligated to find the necessary funding to continue covering expanded Medicaid eligibility if federal
jul 16, 2025, 4:42 am • 5 1 • view
funding decreases. Missouri could face significant budget problems because of the One Big Beautiful Bill, requiring the state to find new revenue sources or cut programs. The obvious revenue generator would be to tax the rich, something Hawley and the Missouri legislature are vehemently against.
jul 16, 2025, 4:42 am • 5 0 • view
THIS is the ONLY reason Hawley originally said he was against the OBBB – then voted for it to please Trump – and is now trying to save his ass & senate seat and keep his billionaire friends in Missouri from being taxed!!
jul 16, 2025, 4:42 am • 5 0 • view
It has NEVER been because of the harm these Medicaid cuts will bring to Missourians. It’s about greed and grift. Follow the money, folks!
jul 16, 2025, 4:42 am • 3 0 • view
Leave it to Hawley to dine and dash.
jul 15, 2025, 6:34 pm • 0 0 • view
I wonder if folks in MO are trying to primary now.
jul 15, 2025, 10:27 pm • 0 0 • view
He voted for the bill.
jul 15, 2025, 5:26 pm • 33 1 • view
Buy he didn’t read it. Sarcasm yes.
jul 15, 2025, 5:59 pm • 0 0 • view
Wow, talk about having it all ways.
jul 15, 2025, 5:35 pm • 7 0 • view
Kinda like how he wants to get elected in Missouri but live in Virginia. 🤔
jul 15, 2025, 5:37 pm • 16 2 • view
jul 15, 2025, 5:23 pm • 31 1 • view
Its kinda like the time he helped incite a riot that he had to run from later.
jul 16, 2025, 12:27 am • 0 0 • view
Hawley is such a piece of shit.
jul 16, 2025, 2:02 am • 15 0 • view
FFS 🤦♀️
jul 16, 2025, 3:34 am • 0 0 • view
If he’s not going to hold up floor votes to get this thing done, then it’s just messaging
jul 16, 2025, 3:55 pm • 3 0 • view
This is nothing more than a political tactic to gain the some of the upper hands so Dems can’t blast the GOP with negative ads and talking points. Dems will likely resist and the GOP will try to blame Dems for taking away healthcare for “grandma” When will these people get serious?
jul 15, 2025, 7:40 pm • 0 0 • view
He voted for the bill. His introduction to repeal some of the cuts is nothing but performative BS.
jul 15, 2025, 5:47 pm • 4 1 • view
Isn’t the standard message from the republicans that there aren’t any Medicaid cuts? This kind of gives the game away!
jul 15, 2025, 10:47 pm • 0 0 • view
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jul 16, 2025, 4:35 am • 1 0 • view
This is a way to put Democrats name on the “spending increases” that contribute to blowing out the deficit in this budget.
jul 15, 2025, 6:35 pm • 0 0 • view
Maybe the time to do that was during voting, when he could have vetoed it.
jul 31, 2025, 10:34 am • 0 0 • view
Josh Hawley is up for re-election. He's going to say anything he has to to make his constituents think he really cares. He's a J6r and belongs in jail.
jul 16, 2025, 4:33 am • 1 1 • view
Are they going to spend the next years, each one of them, introducing the same bill just to pretend that they tried ?
jul 15, 2025, 6:05 pm • 1 0 • view
He’s trying to keep his senate seat.
jul 15, 2025, 8:49 pm • 6 0 • view
The gentleman from Virginia ought to run for one there.
jul 15, 2025, 10:46 pm • 1 0 • view
Yea, he’s gonna lose it. He’s a Fraud & a Liar -everyone knows it. 😏
jul 15, 2025, 11:39 pm • 1 0 • view
I wish he would lose it. But the base here in MO is very, very gullible. They will eat this shit up.
jul 16, 2025, 5:01 am • 1 0 • view
And this will pass with Democratic support and Hawley can claim wins during his next campaign..
jul 15, 2025, 6:35 pm • 0 0 • view
I thought there weren't any Medicaid cuts....
jul 16, 2025, 1:08 pm • 10 0 • view
jul 15, 2025, 9:39 pm • 0 0 • view
The time to stop these cuts was when you voted for it the first time, you dipshit. How is that raised fist on 1/6 working out for you?
jul 16, 2025, 2:08 am • 1 0 • view
What’s the “Rural Health Transformation Fund”??? This is where he wants the money to go. Was this the R’s alternative rural hospital funding plan(that they’ll doubtfully let Dems use), that they created?
jul 16, 2025, 1:24 am • 0 0 • view
all this tells me is they expect to hold the government until 2036 really
jul 15, 2025, 9:35 pm • 0 0 • view
They probably will, given that the opposition is entirely focused on voting the Dems out of office, not Republicans.
jul 15, 2025, 10:50 pm • 0 0 • view
Josh realized that ppl know where he lives.
jul 15, 2025, 5:41 pm • 3 0 • view
Another fuckin fraud
jul 15, 2025, 11:36 pm • 1 0 • view
What a dick.
jul 16, 2025, 5:16 pm • 0 0 • view
Classic Hawley. If anything, I see this is great backup support for the mid terms when they try to say, look, no one has lost Medicad / Medicare.
jul 15, 2025, 5:38 pm • 1 0 • view
Could have amended the bill.
jul 15, 2025, 8:05 pm • 0 0 • view
Nah, force him to have other GOP senators sign on before taking this seriously. It feels like a stunt for him to look bipartisan without doing the work.
jul 15, 2025, 5:44 pm • 1 0 • view
Josh Hawley turning in his term paper a semester late and insisting he get partial credit for trying
jul 15, 2025, 10:39 pm • 14 0 • view
I do not get it. Is he getting too much flak back home over voting for it? Or is this just a grandstand so that he can say he tried?
jul 15, 2025, 7:25 pm • 0 0 • view
Oh, NOW is the time. Thanks, Josh.
jul 15, 2025, 5:26 pm • 4 0 • view
So adding a trillion or so back to our debt ? Or is he going after the billionaires?
jul 16, 2025, 12:08 am • 1 0 • view
Really rolls off the tongue, doesn’t it? bsky.app/profile/ring...
jul 15, 2025, 5:46 pm • 3 0 • view
It's all theater with Hawley - this will go no where and he knows it. But when he runs for re-election he'll use it as a talking point. He's a bag of dicks with no balls.
jul 15, 2025, 5:30 pm • 59 4 • view
jul 15, 2025, 8:07 pm • 0 0 • view
Came here to say exactly this. Except for the dicks part. But thanks for adding it, completely accurate!
jul 15, 2025, 5:35 pm • 14 0 • view
We could have decent senators like Lucas Kunce and Trudy Valentine but the jackasses in this state who always vote Republican ruined it. And now their hospitals are going to close, some of them will lose their farms, and many will go hungry. I'm not even mad - I'm just sad.
jul 15, 2025, 6:01 pm • 20 1 • view
It is sad! We have clinics in rural red areas here in MI that will be closing as well, voters just shooting themselves in the foot.
jul 15, 2025, 11:00 pm • 4 0 • view
"A bag of dicks with no balls" is now my favorite adage. Perhaps Hawley could use it as a campaign slogan. 😊
jul 15, 2025, 6:48 pm • 2 0 • view
No Senator, now is not the time. That was before you voted for the bill. Doing it now just means that you're trying to save face with the constituents that you should have been fighting for weeks ago.
jul 15, 2025, 5:31 pm • 21 2 • view
He knows this isn't gonna pass. It's completely performative. Just something he can reference when he's in MI to give him plausible deniability.
jul 19, 2025, 6:15 pm • 0 0 • view
But I was reliably informed by Republicans that the bill didn't actually cut medicaid!
jul 15, 2025, 11:39 pm • 47 0 • view
They're Schrodinger's Cuts. Cuts which they are now feigning effort to prevent. Not cuts when they end up going into effect.
jul 15, 2025, 11:50 pm • 24 1 • view
So basically he realized that he's planning on running for reelection next year and the bill he helped pass would negatively impact his base. 🙄
jul 16, 2025, 6:23 am • 0 0 • view
Missed opportunity to name it the Murkowski, fix it later, bill.
jul 15, 2025, 6:07 pm • 1 0 • view
jul 15, 2025, 10:05 pm • 0 0 • view
Make it make sense 🤯
jul 15, 2025, 5:44 pm • 0 0 • view
So the GOP is admitting they’re cutting Medicaid now ?
jul 15, 2025, 5:35 pm • 8 0 • view
lol
jul 15, 2025, 9:14 pm • 0 0 • view
Sure.
jul 15, 2025, 5:59 pm • 0 0 • view
That polling is hitting hard
jul 15, 2025, 5:26 pm • 10 0 • view
Hawley:
jul 15, 2025, 6:54 pm • 0 0 • view
While the reps from Oklahoma could give 2shits
jul 16, 2025, 6:59 pm • 0 0 • view
Classic Trump-like tactic: 1. Create the problem (but blame Biden or Obama). 2. Fix the problem. 3. Praise yourself publicly & incessantly for fixing the problem. 4. Rinse & repeat.
jul 16, 2025, 5:32 am • 0 0 • view
Yeah sure asshat
jul 15, 2025, 6:27 pm • 0 0 • view
(1 of 6) Prior to voting for "The Big B̶e̶a̶u̶t̶i̶f̶u̶l̶ ̶ 𝙐𝙜𝙡𝙮 Bill", #Hawley wrote a powerful guest opinion column in the @nytimes.com explaining why Medicaid should 𝗻𝗼𝘁 be cut. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/o... and on various interviews including a one on CNN ( @cnn.com) with Manu Raju on May 14, 2025 / 2
jul 16, 2025, 8:23 am • 1 0 • view
2/ "Inside Politics" that it is wrong to cut #Medicaid cuts for working families, claiming it was his "line in the sand" but then voted for "The Big B̶e̶a̶u̶t̶i̶f̶u̶l̶ ̶𝙐𝙜𝙡𝙮 Bill" anyway. ( #Missouri is a solid "red" state in recent years, no longer a swing state and #Democrats / 3 youtu.be/N1cmrq1N1Dc?...
jul 16, 2025, 8:23 am • 1 0 • view
3) have lost significant support in the few #Democratic strongholds in the state and in the biggest metropolitan areas: #KansasCity, #StLouis, #Springfield and #Columbia @missouriindependent.com: missouriindependent.com/2024/11/14/f...) #Hawley, who is one of President #Trump's most loyal / 4
jul 16, 2025, 8:23 am • 2 0 • view
4 / supporters doesn't run for reelection until 2030 (contrary to some comments here) so it's unlikely he would loose to a #Democrat even without introducing this bill. The bill only matters if he manages to secure enough votes to pass it in the Senate and get a companion bill through the House / 5
jul 16, 2025, 8:23 am • 1 0 • view
5 / and #Trump either signs it or there are enough votes to override a veto. Otherwise, it's just performative. One could argue that #Hawley should have not voted for the Trump's #BBB in the first place because of the drastic #Medicaid cuts (and I certainly would have respected that more), but / 6
jul 16, 2025, 8:23 am • 2 0 • view
6/ there's also the reality of #Trump's unhealthy hold on the #Republican Party and the reality of being a Republican politician in a majority #Republican / #MAGA state. I'm sure that played into his calculus even though he's had trouble justifying his vote to #Missouri voters. rb.gy/jik303 #news
jul 16, 2025, 8:23 am • 1 0 • view
It will go nowhere, but Hawley will now use it to better the optics of his position on the issue...
jul 15, 2025, 6:29 pm • 1 0 • view
I don’t think House or Senate leadership would allow it to be voted on That said. Every single democrat should vote for this bill and support it. Reducing the Medicaid cuts will save lives and the dems should vote to protect Medicaid and strengthen it.
jul 15, 2025, 11:31 pm • 0 0 • view
That you, Josh?
jul 15, 2025, 5:40 pm • 1 0 • view
jul 15, 2025, 11:18 pm • 1 0 • view
This was likely part of the deal to get certain GOP on board? The ability to amend after?
jul 15, 2025, 5:51 pm • 0 0 • view
Why is he pandering? Missouri election results are ignored now.
jul 15, 2025, 8:57 pm • 2 0 • view
jul 15, 2025, 10:35 pm • 0 0 • view
Oh, NOW is the time, you say?
jul 15, 2025, 8:36 pm • 0 0 • view
Hawley is always a day late, dollar short except when he fears for his life - then he is EXPEDITIOUS in running from the threat. His token bill may be necessary, but it reeks of "minimal effort made to present a good face to constituents",
jul 15, 2025, 6:46 pm • 1 0 • view
THIS IS NOT HOW YOU GOVERN. Folks really need to understand the deep dark differences between the two parties.
jul 15, 2025, 11:29 pm • 0 0 • view
I am sure he got Trump’s blessing to introduce this bill. A bill they both know will go nowhere.
jul 15, 2025, 10:28 pm • 0 0 • view
A good old fashioned campaign tactic. Hawley knows this will go nowhere and yet he's giving himself and other spineless R's something to hide behind in the next election.
jul 15, 2025, 6:49 pm • 2 0 • view
I don’t Josh. Seems like the time to stop that would have been when you voted for this shit. Of course, we’ve all seen what kind of a coward you are. #runaway
jul 16, 2025, 7:02 pm • 4 0 • view
*know. I don’t know, Josh.
jul 16, 2025, 7:07 pm • 0 0 • view
Lololololololololol. Ok.
jul 15, 2025, 9:42 pm • 0 0 • view
Idiot.
jul 16, 2025, 3:04 am • 1 0 • view
“Now” is not the time. Two weeks ago was the time.
jul 16, 2025, 6:49 pm • 7 0 • view
An even better way would be not to vote for it in the first place genius.
jul 15, 2025, 5:30 pm • 2 0 • view
What a complete crock of shit. You don’t get to murder people and then go “oops”.
jul 16, 2025, 9:18 pm • 0 0 • view
Holding up his fist, then running like hell for the exit.
jul 15, 2025, 11:31 pm • 0 0 • view
Or he could’ve just not supported the bill. One of the biggest frauds in America.
jul 15, 2025, 10:50 pm • 11 2 • view
Wow, I’m truly at a loss. A politician who VOTED for the BBB, introducing a bill undoing the cuts he approved of. Seems like very stupid policy and politics.
jul 15, 2025, 5:24 pm • 86 4 • view
Josh Hawley is a very stupid and cowardly politician.
jul 15, 2025, 10:26 pm • 10 0 • view
too little too late so too bad
jul 16, 2025, 1:54 pm • 0 0 • view
I imagine him writing (who are we kidding, supervising his staff) this bill while wearing his tight black t-shirt, saying to himself, "This is what a real man does."
jul 15, 2025, 10:52 pm • 0 0 • view
Or you could have voted no!!!
jul 15, 2025, 8:09 pm • 0 0 • view
I hate I am from Missouri. Hawley has forever ruined this state.
jul 15, 2025, 9:58 pm • 1 0 • view
Just fleet-footed Joshie desperately covering his ass so he can dare set foot in rural Missouri where his vicious meth-addled voters are going to be enraged at having their health care ended! He’s not going to be any safer in the blue metro areas, either. Lotsa guns in Missouri!
jul 16, 2025, 5:19 am • 0 0 • view
He needs to suffer the consequences of his actions at the next election!
jul 15, 2025, 6:25 pm • 1 0 • view
Seems like it would have been easier to not vote for the cuts in the first place, rather than voting for them and then having to vote to undo them.
jul 15, 2025, 5:29 pm • 3 0 • view