Members of the U.S. House have left Washington for their summer break, and Republicans are working to promote the tax and spending cuts in the one big, beautiful bill, which President Trump recently signed into law.

But concerns about cuts to Medicaid in particular remain.

Congressional correspondent Lisa Desjardin is in Louisiana, home to the top two House leaders and a state with the greatest reliance on Medicaid

in the country. She joins us now, and she and the team are braving a wicked summer storm there.

But Lisa, you've long been reporting on the potential impact to Medicaid from back here in Washington.

Tell us about what you found on the ground in Louisiana.

That's right. I'm now.

Welcome to the Bayou State in the summer.

This is a place that is worth looking at for Medicaid because almost a third of this state is on Medicaid.

Now, when you talk to people here, going around the state, what I get most of all what surprised me the most is the level of uncertainty about what's about to happen.

And that's across ideologies, that's because we don't really know how the new law is going

to be implemented. And a reminder that the new law would change how people need to show that

they are eligible, how often they have to put in paperwork, there would be new work requirements

in this bill potentially, and also it would decrease the amount of money states get.

So Republicans here say they think that they will be able to implement this law without hurting the vulnerable.

But many others say no, they're concerned about that.

For patients, there is confusion omna over what it means for them.

We spoke to a woman Rita. she's a mother of three.

She is working. The work requirements probably wouldn't affect her, but she's worried about

whether her Medicaid would say if she misses some paperwork. And overall, she expressed what we

heard from most people, a great deal of anxiety. I'm very apprehensive about what's going on

right now. And I'm very concerned. It's going to cause a lot of more mental illness, it's going to cause a lot more sickness. And it's like, you know, that shouldn't be the way that we're gearing towards. We're all Americans, and I feel like, you know, we should all have a right to a fair health care, no matter how much money we have. That's another idea most people agree on here, of course, but implementation, that's what it comes down to.

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