Josh Hawley (R-MO), whose support is crucial for a so-called budget reconciliation bill but is contingent on preserving Medicaid, wants to first see what House Republicans can muster through their thin majority.

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) is warning against his own party’s push to slash Medicaid spending, just hours after House Republicans released legislation that could save billions of dollars and make

Senator Hawley opposed the Affordable Care Act — the very law that enabled Missouri’s Medicaid expansion, which he now claims to defend. He backed Trump-era budgets that proposed deep cuts to Medicaid. Now, with polls showing broad public support for programs like Medicaid, he’s repositioning himself as a populist champion of the working class.

Editorial: Hawley’s history is as problematic as any Republican on health care, but his project to remake himself as a populist friend of working people may have meat to it.

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,

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,

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.”

Mr. Trump himself has been crystal clear on this point. Since taking office, he has repeatedly rejected calls for Medicaid benefit cuts. Just the other week, he said: “We are doing absolutely nothing to hurt Medicare, Medicaid or Social Security. Nothing at all.”

In 2018 he filed a lawsuit to overturn ObamaCare. Now he’s fighting against any Medicaid reform.