[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 76 (Wednesday, May 7, 2025)]
[House]
[Page H1896]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                          PROTECTING MEDICAID

  (Mr. HARRIS of North Carolina asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HARRIS of North Carolina. Mr. Speaker, why is the Federal 
Government spending more taxpayer dollars on healthcare for illegal 
aliens and basement bums instead of those who truly need it? For the 
past several weeks, there have been fearful rumblings on both sides of 
the aisle about reforming Medicaid.
  Here is the bottom line. If we fail to act now and allow millions 
more working, capable adults to continue to freeload off ObamaCare 
expansion, taxpayers will bear the burden of what will become a $1 
trillion program.
  ObamaCare significantly expanded Medicaid, and it is quickly 
bankrupting the program. Ironically, Medicaid expansion has shifted 
resources away from the most vulnerable Americans--single moms, 
infants, and the disabled--in favor of adults capable of working.
  Mr. Speaker, if 30-year-olds living in their parents' house get more 
Federal Medicaid benefits than pregnant, single mothers, then it is 
clear the system is utterly broken and in dire need of reform. We have 
a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity before us to finally do what we said 
we would do.

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