NC Republican Sen. Thom Tillis explained on the Senate floor this weekend why he was voting against his party’s huge budget bill.
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NC Republican Sen. Thom Tillis explained on the Senate floor this weekend why he was voting against his party’s huge budget bill. While he supported some of the changes to Medicaid, the total package would eventually kick 636,000 North Carolinians off their health insurance, violating President Trump’s previous promises not to cut the program.
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Tillis said he spent the last few weeks talking to bipartisan medical experts in the state about the consequences of the cuts. He suggested his colleagues had not done the same due diligence and were about to enact these cuts without understanding what they would do to their constituents.
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