In a surprising turn, Republican Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri has voiced strong opposition to proposed Medicaid cuts in the GOP's tax and spending bill. Hawley's stance highlights a growing divide within the party,

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) is warning against his own party’s push to slash Medicaid spending, just hours after House Republicans released legislation that could save billions of dollars and make

One Republican, Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri, warned his colleagues in an op-ed Monday that cutting health care to pay for tax breaks would be “morally wrong and politically suicidal.”

Senator Hawley opposed the Affordable Care Act — the very law that enabled Missouri’s Medicaid expansion, which he now claims to defend. He backed Trump-era budgets that proposed deep cuts to Medicaid. Now, with polls showing broad public support for programs like Medicaid, he’s repositioning himself as a populist champion of the working class.

A little over four years later, Hawley is very much still a conservative, fighting to ban abortion access and take away basic rights for transgender people. But he has also emerged as perhaps the Democrats’ most unlikely ally in fighting Republican efforts to slash the social safety net and reward the billionaire class that put President Donald Trump,

As President Donald Trump continues to push for a "big, beautiful bill" that will combine his legislative priorities, Republicans in Congress are fighting over the particulars — including Medicaid funding.

Let’s begin with the facts of the matter. Medicaid is a federal program that provides health care to low-income Americans in partnership with state governments. Today it serves over 70 million Americans, including well over one million residents of Missouri, the state I represent.

President Trump turned the screws on holdout Republicans, warning they would pay a steep political price if they stood in the way of his multitrillion tax and spending agenda.