An estimate released by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) on Wednesday said that nearly 11 million people would lose insurance in 2034 under a major budget bill backed by the White House and Republicans.
In a statement attached to a spreadsheet released by the CBO on Wednesday, the office said that enacting the Big Beautiful Bill “would increase by 10.9 million the number of people without health insurance in 2034.” That would include around 1.4 million illegal immigrants, or individuals “without verified citizenship, nationality, or satisfactory immigration status,” who would lose coverage in state-only funded programs, the CBO also said.
A subsection of the CBO spreadsheet found that the loss in health care would be driven primarily due to cuts to Medicaid, the federal program that provides insurance to adults and children with limited resources and income. More than 7.8 million fewer people would be enrolled in the program, which has been targeted by Republicans who said the cuts were a way to remove fraud, waste, and abuse….