President Donald Trump has staked much of the credibility of his "big, beautiful bill" of tax cuts on Kevin Hassett, a right-wing economist long hitched to Trump's movement who insists in the face of all evidence that hundreds of billions of dollars in Medicaid cuts aren't actually Medicaid cuts,

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) finds that the Senate Republicans’ budget bill will slash $1 trillion from Medicaid, but according to Kevin Hassett, the White House Director of the National Economic Council,

President Trump's signature tax and spending legislation, the "big beautiful bill," is now law, and that means cuts to Medicaid spending. The big picture: The law sets in motion almost $1 trillion in slashes to Medicaid and other health policy changes,