As the Senate considers a domestic policy bill to enact the White House’s agenda, President Trump and his allies have sought to assuage some lawmakers’ concerns over its price tag and cuts to Medicaid with inaccurate claims.
They have dismissed estimates of the effect of the “one big, beautiful bill” on the deficit as incorrect and described cuts to the health insurance program for poor Americans as simply trimming “waste, fraud and abuse.”
Here’s a fact-check of some of their claims.
For weeks, Republicans in the White House and on Capitol Hill have falsely claimed their bill cutting taxes and Medicaid would reduce federal budget deficits, with only a few breaking from the part...