Sen. Josh Hawley on Medicaid Cuts, Epstein Clients, and Government Transparency

Medicaid Bill and Hospital Funding

• 🏥 Senator Hawley explains his vote for a Medicaid bill, supporting its work requirements and restrictions on undocumented immigrants, while opposing future cuts to hospitals.
• 💡 He introduced a new bill to reverse these hospital cuts, aiming to double the negotiated increase in hospital funding over the next four years.
• 💰 Missouri is set to receive an additional billion dollars in hospital funding over four years due to negotiations on the larger bill, with Hawley's bill seeking to make this increase permanent.

Recisions Package and Spending

• ✂️ Hawley supports the recisions package and would prefer to increase it, specifically by cutting $9 billion from Green New Deal funding that he states is being used to take farmers' land in his state.
• ⚠️ He acknowledges a lack of context regarding specific details of the recisions package compared to earlier ones, understanding colleagues' frustrations.

Epstein Case and Transparency

• 🔍 Hawley finds it "hard to believe" that the DOJ and FBI would not know the identities of Jeffrey Epstein's clients or that he kept no record of them.
• 🗣️ He agrees with the President's stance that the Attorney General should release any credible and appropriate information regarding the case.
• ⚖️ Hawley suggests making all information public, as long as it does not interfere with ongoing prosecutions, drawing from his experience as a former state Attorney General.
• 🎤 He supports the idea of the judiciary committee investigating the Epstein matter and believes Ghislaine Maxwell could testify under oath, without immunity.