The Trump administration has touted the president’s tax-and-spending bill as featuring the largest cuts to mandatory spending in the country’s history — a statement backed up by an analysis from the official legislative scorekeeper that Congress has relied on for half a century.

Donald Trump publicly resisted Medicaid cuts — until his budget director, Russell Vought, convinced the president that reductions to heath coverage for low-income people, embedded in the Republican tax bill,

President Donald Trump insisted this week his signature policy bill won’t cut Medicaid—a narrative many Republicans have adopted to counter estimates the GOP’s proposed changes to the program could reduce Medicaid spending nearly $800 billion over the next 10 years with new work requirements and a ban on Medicaid for gender-transition care,