Republicans on Capitol Hill are entering critical days debating how to enact parts of the Trump agenda.

Tax rates, Medicaid, and the future size of government are all on the line. And House lawmakers have not yet figured out how to make it all work together.

One hang up for a dozen House Republicans is the potential threat of Medicaid cuts.

In a letter to House leadership

last month, they wrote to support what they call targeted reforms but will not back any

reduction in Medicaid coverage for vulnerable populations. New York Republican Congresswoman

Nicole Maliatakis is among them. I spoke with her earlier today. Congresswoman Malayatakis, welcome back to the NewsHour.

Thank you for having me.

What are your concerns about the Medicaid proposals under consideration right now by House Republican leadership?

Well, it seems that we've done a good job in expressing that we did not want to see certain cuts that would impact our constituents made.

So far we've been successful in taking off the table, lowering the reimbursement rate that New York receives, which is currently at 50%.

We've also been successful in ensuring there would be no per capita caps on traditional Medicaid.

And we've made work, our priority has always been to protect our most vulnerable, the seniors, the disabled, children with developmental disabilities, and our hospitals.

So we're currently discussing the expansion portion to see how we can work

together to eliminate the fraud, the waste, and the abuse to make sure that illegal immigrants

are not receiving these services to ensure that if you're able body between the ages of 18

to 64, if you have no dependents, that you have work requirements in place,

and cutting back on some of the loopholes that the states have used to try to gain more money

from the federal government.

So we're currently working through this all.

We have another meeting today with the speaker and Chairman Guthrie,

and we expect to come to a resolution here that can make all sides happy,

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