Punchbowl News: “Johnson faces a group of GOP moderates who see the reconciliation package currently under discussion as an existential political threat, while hardline conservatives are pressing their leadership for hundreds of billions of dollars in additional spending cuts, especially for Medicaid.
”“Moderates are upset over the GOP leadership’s public insistence that they’ll end up supporting per-capita caps for Medicaid and lowering the federal match rate. In reality, these moderates won’t support Medicaid cuts exceeding $450 billion to $500 billion, arguing that to do so could jeopardize health-care coverage for too many constituents back home.”
“Moderates and the House Republican leadership also are nowhere close to notching an agreement to raise the cap on the state-and-local tax deduction. This is blue-state House Republicans’ hill to die on.”