If passed into law, the bill would push 7.6 milion people off Medicaid, according to the Congressional Budget Office. Cuts and new conditions for SNAP food aid would save $300 billion over ten years. Trump's 2017 tax cuts would be made permanent, costing $2 trillion over the next decade.

Most US adults say they don’t want to see decreases in Medicaid spending, according to a recent KFF poll. Republican lawmakers voted to pass a budget blueprint in April that gave the House Energy and Commerce Committee instructions to shave $880 billion in funding from programs in the committee’s jurisdiction.

Millions of Americans could lose their Medicaid coverage under Republican plans to vastly cut federal spending. Lawmakers on the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, which has jurisdiction over Medicaid, are mulling over changes to the health care insurance program that benefits more than 70 million Americans nationwide.

Medicaid might not be the “third rail” of American politics in the way that Social Security benefits are, but it could be the proverbial Costco hot dog.

South Carolina Medicaid approved GLP-1s to treat obesity, placing it among the few state programs covering the drugs. But access remains limited.

Experts at the University of California, Riverside, weigh in on what impact these cuts could have. Bruce Link is a distinguished professor of public policy and sociology; Richard Carpiano is a professor of public policy; and Sanya Dhama is a first-year medical student.

Congressional Republicans are looking to cut at least $880 billion from a pool of federal funding that includes Medicaid — and the program is likely to take a major hit. A previous budget crunch in Missouri offers a window into how cuts ripple through people's lives.