SALT Means Cutting Medicaid to Give Tax Cut to the Rich

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Throughout the long battle over Donald Trump’s “one big beautiful” budget reconciliation bill, which is nearing its peak in the House right now, we’ve been told that a brave band of “GOP moderates” was fighting Medicaid cuts even as they fought on behalf of their blue-state constituents for relief from the cap on “SALT” (State and Local Tax) deductions. You got the sense they were the ideological opposites of the troglodytes of the House Freedom Caucus...