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This is On Point. I'm Deborah Becker and for Magna Chakra Barty.

One of the proposals to help fund President Trump's vast domestic policy agenda is creating a rift among some Republican lawmakers.

A House spending blueprint calls for deep cuts to Medicaid the nation's health insurance safety net program.

House Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters this month that to pay for things such as tax cuts

and increased border security, it makes sense to look at Medicaid's skyrocketing costs.

Medicaid is infamous for fraud, waste, and abuse.

I mean, by some estimates, large percentages of the dollars that are allocated there are wasted and stolen.

And so we do right to go into those programs and find that and show the people what's

happened and make sure it doesn't happen again. If you've eliminated fraud, waste, and abuse in

Medicaid, you've got a huge amount of money that you can spend on real priorities for the country.

Where President Trump stands on this proposal to cut $880 billion from Medicaid is unclear.

He expressed support for the House plan on truth social last week.

But hours earlier, Trump told Fox News, Sean Hannity, that he would not support cutting

social safety net programs such as Medicaid.

Medicare, Medicaid, none of that stuff is going to be touched.

Nothing.

You don't have to.

Now, if there are illegal migrants of the system, we're going to get them out of the system and all of that fraud, but it's not going to be touched.

Some lawmakers say maybe not touched, but perhaps there could be other ways to reduce costs,

such as requiring Medicaid recipients to work. Still, several Republican lawmakers are squeamish

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