The Missouri Republican's support is crucial but contingent on preserving Medicaid, and he wants to first see what House Republicans can muster through their thin majority.

As they fight over the specifics of President Donald Trump's "big, beautiful bill," GOP lawmakers are expressing very different views on Medicaid. Some budget hawks in the House Freedom Caucus are calling for deep Medicaid cuts,

House Republicans passed Medicaid reform and a $900 billion spending cut out of committee Wednesday after a marathon multi-day session marking up that portion of President Trump’s “big, beautiful” bill — despite a key senator warning the commander in chief would veto it.

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.”

Mo., is sounding the alarm that Republicans should avoid deep cuts to Medicaid in the budget reconciliation process.

The House GOP is working to push Trump's package through committees and opposition from Democrats and even some wary Republicans.

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) blasted his fellow Republicans for threatening to cut Medicaid to help offset tax cuts sought by President Donald Trump.Missouri voters decisively elected to expand the state's Medicaid coverage in 2020,

Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) says that the Republican party is currently facing an internal identity crisis, particularly over President Donald Trump's proposed legislation on Medicaid, as the Democratic party's approval ratings continue to fall.

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,

Rep. Mark Alford (R-MO) may be from the same party and the same state as Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), but the two are worlds apart when it comes to how Medicaid should be represented in the House spending bill.