GOP Advances Budget Resolution Framing Likely Medicaid Cuts As ‘Anti-Fraud,’ Rejects Scores Of Dem Amendments

The House Budget Committee advanced its contentious budget blueprint along party lines late Thursday (Feb. 13) after a 12-hour marathon markup, with Republicans rejecting Democrats’ barrage of amendments aimed at shielding Medicaid from deep budget cuts widely believed to be inevitable under the resolution’s large deficit reduction target -- and instead framing those likely reforms as necessary to stem fraud, waste and abuse. The House Republican budget resolution, unveiled Wednesday (Feb. 12) , advanced through the budget committee in a...