This post at Crooks & Liars interested me. Josh Hawley went on CNN and claimed to be totally against any Medicaid cuts. That’s not the surprising part. The surprising part is that John Amato, who wrote the post appears to believe that Hawley is serious.
You remember Josh, the guy who saluted the January 6th rioters and then…, well you remember that picture of him running away.
Now, it is somewhat possible that this is good news for the Democrats, because Republicans like Hawley want to be perceived as being against these Medicaid cuts, but I think it’s more probable that when push comes to shove, if they are in the bill that the Senate must vote on, he and all other Republicans will vote in favor (though Susan Collins will be concerned), and will either come up with some way to blame the Democrats for the cuts or claim that while they regretted the cuts, they simply had to vote for the bill because otherwise the government that has already fallen apart would fall apart.
So, I’m surprised Amato is willing to take Hawley’s statements at face value, though I’d be glad to learn I was wrong.