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the Senate will start considering amendments to the multi-trillion dollar tax cut and spending bill.
It's backed by President Trump.
Republicans can only afford to lose three votes or the measure will fail in the Senate.
One of the no votes is Republican Tom Tillis of North Carolina.
He says more than half a million people in his state who are properly eligible for Medicaid will lose it.
But Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson says the Senate measure will not harm vulnerable people on Medicaid.
I think we need to do a lot more in terms of spending reductions.
We're not talking about traditional Medicaid that covers disabled children,
the vulnerable, that we want to preserve.
We're talking about the Obamacare addition to it, where you have single, childless,
working age, and capable adults, childless adults,
that are being reimbursed 90 cents on the dollar.
Wisconsin Republican Senator Ron Johnson spoke to NPR's morning edition.