Senior House Republican eviscerates Dems for 'fear campaign' against Trump's 'big, beautiful bill'

EXCLUSIVE: The president of the House Energy and Commerce Committee is accusing Democrats of lying astir President Donald Trump's "big, beauteous bill."

Chairman Brett Guthrie, R-Ky., told Fox News Digital connected Monday helium believed Democrats had been waging a "fear run to scare Americans" ever since Republicans began discussions astir the fund reconciliation process.

"Now, Democrats are pedaling incorrect reports that see policies that aren’t adjacent successful the bill," Guthrie said. 

"This measure refocuses Medicaid connected mothers, children, radical with disabilities, and the aged – not amerciable immigrants and susceptible adults who take not to work."

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House Energy & Commerce Committee Chairman Brett Guthrie has accused Democrats of fearmongering connected Medicaid. (Getty Images)

The Kentucky Republican was specifically referring to his panel's information of Trump's bill, the substance of which was released precocious connected Sunday night.

The Energy and Commerce Committee, which has wide jurisdiction, including implicit national wellness programs, telecommunications and energy, was tasked with uncovering astatine slightest $880 cardinal successful spending cuts to wage for different priorities successful the bill.

It's the largest stock of immoderate of the 11 committees progressive successful the reconciliation process – immoderate of which person been fixed further backing to enact Trump's priorities connected taxation cuts, defense, migration and the border.

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO), however, said connected Monday the authorities would apt execute adjacent much savings than its $880 cardinal benchmark.

Guthrie himself told Republicans connected a lawmaker-only telephone connected Sunday nighttime that the committee recovered "north of $900 billion" successful savings, a root told Fox News Digital.

Democrats instantly seized connected the authorities arsenic what they saw arsenic a smoking weapon of Republican plans to chopped Medicaid.

But the details released connected Sunday nighttime look to amusement House GOP leaders veered distant from the overmuch much terrible cuts to the low-income healthcare programme that immoderate blimpish lawmakers were pushing.

Ranking subordinate Rep. Frank Pallone accused Republicans of trying to gut Medicaid. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

The authorities would enactment a caller 80-hour-per-month enactment request connected definite able-bodied adults receiving Medicaid, aged 19 done 64.

It would besides enactment guardrails connected states spending funds connected their expanded Medicaid populations. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) allowed states to grow Medicaid sum to adults who marque up to 138% of the poorness level.

More specifically, states that supply Medicaid sum to amerciable immigrants could spot their national Medicaid reimbursement dollars diminished, putting much of that outgo connected the authorities itself.

The measure would besides necessitate states with expanded Medicaid populations to execute eligibility checks each six months to guarantee the strategy is not being abused.

State Medicaid plans would beryllium affected by a moratorium connected immoderate caller authorities supplier taxes, portion freezing existent rates wherever they are. State supplier taxes are state-imposed fees connected healthcare providers that assistance those states get much national backing for Medicaid.

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New Jersey Rep. Frank Pallone, the apical Democrat connected the committee, released a CBO projection requested by his ain enactment that said astatine slightest 13.7 cardinal radical would suffer wellness security based connected a draught of Republicans' Medicaid proposals.

"Let’s beryllium clear, Republican enactment released this bill under cover of nighttime due to the fact that they don’t privation radical to cognize their existent intentions," Pallone said.

"This is not trimming abdominous from astir the edges, it’s cutting to the bone. The overwhelming bulk of the savings successful this measure volition travel from taking healthcare distant from millions of Americans. Nowhere successful the measure are they cutting ‘waste, fraud, and abuse’ – they’re cutting people’s healthcare and utilizing that wealth to springiness taxation breaks to billionaires."

Guthrie dismissed the calculations successful the Democrats' property release.

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"It is reckless that my colleagues connected the different broadside of the aisle claimed an artificially precocious fig successful alleged sum nonaccomplishment conscionable truthful they tin fearmonger and people governmental points," helium told Fox News Digital.

"This reconciliation is simply a triumph for Americans successful each portion of the country, and it’s a shame Democrats are intentionally reflexively opposing commonsense policies to fortify the program."

Republicans are expected to beforehand the Energy and Commerce information of the measure connected Tuesday afternoon. If it passes done committee, it volition beryllium added to the last bill, which Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., hopes to pass the House by Memorial Day.