CBO: Nearly 11 million people will be uninsured if GOP megabill becomes law

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Source: the hill




by Nathaniel Weixel - 06/04/25 11:46 AM ET

Nearly 11 million people would lose health insurance under the House Republican tax bill, mostly due to cuts to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act (ACA), according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO).

The CBO’s latest report estimates that 10.9 million people would be uninsured over the next decade if the spending package, which includes much of President Trump’s legislative agenda, were enacted.

That total includes an estimated 1.4 million people in state-funded health programs without verified citizenship, nationality or satisfactory immigration status. The legislation would impose new restrictions on states that use their own money to provide health insurance for immigrants lacking permanent legal status.

According to the analysis, about 7.8 million would lose Medicaid coverage under strict work requirements and more frequent eligibility checks, and millions more would lose coverage through changes to the ACA exchanges.
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Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5332414-congressional-budget-office-estimate-health-insurance-losses-gop-megabill/

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No, it is not shocking at all.

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[Ocelot II]

1. So what? We're all going to die anyhow; just ask Senator Ernst.

[Passages]

2. Not shocking but it is criminal imo.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

3. Maddow Blog-Budget office analysis makes the Republicans' domestic policy megabill look even worse

The original Congressional Budget Office score of the GOP's reconciliation package was brutal. A revised analysis made matters worse for Republicans.

MAGA is taking healthcare away from 11 million people.

Budget office analysis makes the Republicans’ domestic policy megabill look even worse www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

— The Wise Old Bat (@thewiseoldbat.bsky.social) 2025-06-04T15:23:52.018Z

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/cbo-office-budget-analysis-republicans-megabill-worse-rcna210890

Nearly two weeks later, the budget office has finally had an opportunity to carefully scrutinize the final version of the bill — which narrowly passed the lower chamber ahead of Memorial Day weekend — and as NBC News reported, the CBO’s revised findings don’t do Republicans any favors.

The sweeping Republican bill for President Donald Trump’s domestic agenda is projected to add $2.4 trillion to the national debt over the next 10 years, according to a new estimate from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. It is slightly higher than an earlier version of the bill, which the CBO projected to add $2.3 trillion in new debt.

The same CBO report similarly found that 10.9 million Americans would lose their health care coverage if the Republican legislation became law — a slightly larger total than the analysts’ original estimate — as a result of Medicaid cuts and regressive changes to the Affordable Care Act.

What’s the good news for GOP officials in this revised score? There really isn’t any.

It’s worth emphasizing for context that Republicans didn’t actually want any of this information — before or after the vote. Common sense might suggest that GOP officials on Capitol Hill would want to know basic details about their giant reconciliation package, such as how much it would cost and the practical implications of its provisions, so that Congress would at least try to govern with open eyes.

But that hasn’t been the case. Just as Republicans scrambled in 2017 to pass massive tax breaks without waiting for a score from the Congressional Budget Office, GOP lawmakers decided to do the same thing in 2025, deliberately choosing willful ignorance about their own legislation.

Congressional Democrats, however, were free to ask the CBO to scrutinize the House Republicans’ proposal, and that’s precisely what happened.

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4. They DON"T care period

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5. So far cats can get a 6th house and 8th yacht.

Trump is exploding the debt for his fat cat friends.

We will all pay high interest rates, have no health care, and live as corporate slaves.

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6. CBO is out with its final cost estimate of the tax-and-spending bill passed by the House.....

https://x.com/bencasselman/st
Ben Casselman
@bencasselman
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CBO is out with its final cost estimate of the tax-and-spending bill passed by the House.
- Revenue ⬇️ by $3.7 trillion over 10 years
- Spending ⬇️ by $1.3 trillion
- Debt ⬆️ by $2.4 trillion over 10 years
- Uninsured pop. ⬆️ by 10.9 million in 2034
Full analysis: https://cbo.gov/publication/61461atus/1930266820369342732