It's Wednesday, May 21st.
I'm Jane Koston.
This is What A Day,
a show that recalls a time when congressional hearings for members of a presidential administration involved way less screaming.
It's crazy, but it's true.
On today's show,
Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem gets her constitutional rights all mixed up during a Senate hearing.
And Trump's FDA looks to limit access to COVID booster shots.
But let's start with Medicaid.
We've been talking about Medicaid a lot on this show.
As a refresher, it's the health care safety net program that primarily covers low-income Americans,
and it's jointly run by the federal government and states.
It's also in the crosshairs of congressional Republicans,
as they try to move President Donald Trump's big,
beautiful bill slowly, painfully, through the House and Senate and onto his desk.
They're eyeing upwards of $800 billion in cuts to Medicaid over the next decade.
And one of the ways they want to do that is by imposing new work and eligibility requirements.
But if you're just listening to Trump talk, you'd honestly never know it.
Because the president seems to be very into Medicaid.
Here he is Monday at the tail end of an unrelated press conference in the Oval Office.