1. La Contradicción Central: Voto a Favor y Crítica Pública.
El Senador Josh Hawley de Missouri enfrentó una intensa reacción por su voto a favor de un proyecto de ley que incluía recortes masivos a Medicaid, a pesar de haber condenado previamente tales recortes como "moralmente incorrectos" y una "línea roja" que no cruzaría. Su acción fue vista como una traición directa a sus promesas y a sus electores.
- Gops josh hawley pushes to undo the medicaid cuts he just voted for two weeks after the missouri republican voted for the megabill with sweeping medicaid cuts, the gop senator unveiled a bill to undo what he did.
- Josh hawley once called slashing medicaid his red line. Now hes silent as his party pushes a bill that would gut itripping care from disabled kids, seniors, and rural families in missouri.
- Senator josh hawley, a missouri republican, called the proposed medicaid cuts, which total about 800 billion, morally wrong and politically suicide.
- Profile in courage senator josh hawley, republican of missouri, opposed the house bills medicaid cuts. Then he voted for the senates deeper medicaid cuts. Now that theyre almost law, he says he will spend the next 2 yrs trying to undo the medicaid cuts, because he opposed them so fiercely.
2. El Intento de Reversión y Acusaciones de Postura.
Poco después de la aprobación del proyecto de ley, Hawley introdujo una nueva legislación para revertir las disposiciones clave de Medicaid que él mismo había apoyado. Este movimiento fue ampliamente interpretado como un "truco político" o un intento de "control de daños" para mitigar la indignación de sus constituyentes, especialmente aquellos en áreas rurales que dependen en gran medida de Medicaid.
- Icymi josh hawley just introduced a bill to undo the medicaid cuts he voted for. You read that right. He helped pass trumps plan to gut careand now wants credit for trying to fix it.
- Hawley aims to roll back medicaid cuts he voted for just two weeks ago hell use this as his way to say see, i tried to protect medicaid while omitting the fact that he voted for the bill that made the cuts in the first place.
- Josh hawley introduces bill to cancel medicaid cuts he just voted for title of a huffpost article this i stand with traitors fool here knows miserys. Excuse me, missouris voters are about some dumb mutha. Yeah.
- Now is the time to prevent any future cuts to medicaid from going into effect, hawley said in a statement. I want to see medicaid reductions stopped and rural hospitals fully funded permanently, he added. Or.he could have just voted no on the bill.
3. Impacto en Missouri y Críticas por Cobardía.
La principal preocupación se centró en cómo los recortes afectarían a Missouri, un estado que expandió Medicaid por iniciativa popular y donde muchos residentes, especialmente en zonas rurales, dependen del programa. Los críticos acusaron a Hawley de cobardía por no usar su voto para detener los recortes cuando tuvo la oportunidad, sugiriendo que su lealtad a su partido o a los donantes superó su deber hacia sus electores.
- Missouri needs to wake up. Josh hawley is so upset by medicaid cuts and swears he will work with anyone to make sure they never take effect. Well guess what josh. You already had the opportunity to make sure they never happened. And you voted for them.
- Hawley is pathetic. He couldve voted against the bill that passed 50-50 and stopped medicaid recipients from losing their healthcare.
- Josh hawley voted to slash medicaid with trumps big beautiful bill. Two weeks later, hes suddenly against itintroducing a bill to undo the very cuts he approved. Zero shame, total hypocrisy.
- Hawley is maga. The only reason he pretended to care about medicaid was because missouri voted via initiative to expand medicaid.
- Josh hawley voted to gut medicaid after promising not to. Scumbag. The congressional budget office said saturday that the senate version would result in 930 billion in cuts to medicaid, more than the roughly 800 billion that the house version proposes.