CNN’s chief data analyst Harry Enten on Wednesday called out House Republicans’ “atrocious” move in proposing massive spending cuts to Medicaid to fund President Donald Trump’s so-called “big, beautiful bill.”
“The politics of this are so extremely bad, it blows my mind,” Enten told CNN’s Kate Bolduan of a move that could leave millions of Americans without health care.
Enten turned to a KFF poll from April in which 76% of respondents indicated their opposition to major federal cuts to Medicaid. Just 24% of respondents said they favored the cuts.
He then broke down the poll by political affiliation, pointing to how 95% of Democrats, 79% of independents and 55% of Republicans opposed Medicaid cuts.
“This, simply put, is not popular on any part of the aisle. From the left all the way to the right, the opposition is in the majority,” Enten stressed.
