Reporter Asks Karoline Leavitt Point Blank If Trump Is Getting 'Bad Counsel' On BBB Impact On Rural Hospitals

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During a White House press briefing, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt was asked about the Big Beautiful Bill's medicaid provisions and potential impacts on rural hospitals.

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00:00On the reconciliation bill, Senator Tillis from the floor yesterday seemed to suggest

00:05President Trump was getting bad counsel on the effects of the bill.

00:10Is President Trump aware of the analyses — and there are several of these — that suggest

00:14if rural hospitals potentially close, if there are Medicaid patients in the millions that

00:21become ineligible for that?

00:22Yes, and that claim is just simply untrue.

00:25All hospitals comprise 7 percent of all hospitals spending on Medicaid, and that illustrates

00:30that they have not benefited from the massive increase of waste, fraud, and abuse under

00:35the Biden administration.

00:36So this bill strengthens Medicaid.

00:38It will protect those benefits that hardworking Americans need, and that's why the president

00:44wants this bill to pass.

00:45The senator was wrong.

00:46The president put out a truth social post addressing it, and then the senator announced he's no

00:51longer running for office anymore.

00:53So I think that case has been closed and the White House is continuing to focus on getting

00:57this legislation to the president's desk for his signature.

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