WASHINGTON — President Trump warned House Republicans “don’t f— around with Medicaid” during a closed-door meeting Tuesday as he sought to rally support for his “big beautiful bill.”
The R-rated remark, confirmed to The Post by a Republican member of Congress and another person in the room, came as Trump tries to convince fiscal hawks to deliver on a bundle of top campaign pledges, including extending his 2017 tax cuts while eliminating levies on tips, overtime pay and Social Security.
Trump also implored allies not to get bogged down in a fight over lifting the $10,000 state and local tax deduction, arguing it could be done later.
The current version of the bill, which is set to come before the House Rules Committee early Wednesday morning, would raise the deduction cap to $30,000 — an amount a handful of blue-state GOP lawmakers have described as inadequate.
