Protecting Medicaid Benefits in California

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Mr. KILEY of California. Mr. Speaker, the moment of reckoning for California Governor Gavin Newsom has arrived. While I have been fighting to protect Medicaid benefits for Californians, the Governor's irresponsible actions are now threatening deep cuts for Medicaid in California.

Mr. Speaker, Newsom has made California the only State that offers Medicaid to everyone in the State illegally. It has already cost us $9.5 billion just this year in State funds, and now it also threatens to cost us even more in Federal funds.

Governor Newsom faces a very clear choice: He can continue a policy that no other State has and cost us hundreds of billions of dollars in Medicaid benefits that could have gone to legal California residents over the next decade, or he can act now to reverse this irresponsible policy.

Mr. Speaker, I am strongly urging the Governor and the legislature to do the latter immediately.

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