[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 76 (Wednesday, May 7, 2025)]
[House]
[Page H1898]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      INCREASING MEDICAID FUNDING

  (Mr. BIGGS of Arizona asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BIGGS of Arizona. Mr. Speaker, the original Medicaid program was 
designed to help the disabled, pregnant women, seniors, and children.
  Then there was this expansion that came along, and it is filled with 
able-bodied adults of working age who could be working. That is the 
fastest growing program in the United States today. They pay out about 
$100 billion a year in lost payments.
  The Republicans want to deal with that. How we deal with it is an 
increase in funding over the next 10 years of 25 percent. We just heard 
somebody say we are going to gut it. Only in Washington, D.C., would 
someone say an increase in spending is a cut. That is the weirdness of 
this place, but this is the reality. These are the facts right here.

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