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By Jerod MacDonald-Evoy | AZ Mirror
Tucson Republican U.S. Rep. Juan Ciscomani had drawn a line in the sand, saying he couldn’t vote for a budget bill that cut Medicaid. Five weeks later, he strolled across that line, voting for a Trump-endorsed spending plan that cuts nearly $1 trillion from Medicaid.
A week later, he visited a rural hospital in his Southern Arizona district that is expected to lose over $700,000 annually because of the cuts. That was one of several rural health care facilities — all of which are now facing losses of millions of dollars — in the coming weeks, the Arizona Mirror found.
Last year’s budget reconciliation bill, dubbed the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” by President Donald Trump, slashed Medicaid by an estimated $990 billion over the next 10 years, modified eligibility for accessing health care and implemented a slew of other changes that are set to push millions across the country off Medicaid and cost hospitals across the nation billions in revenue.
