Chip Roy says Senate's Medicaid cuts 'a bit better' than expected

Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) said during a recent interview that Medicaid cuts in the Senate-passed “big, beautiful bill” are a “bit better” than what he expected, but he added that he still has “concerns.” 

“I will note that I have now gotten a little bit more information on some of the Medicaid stuff that I feel like it’s a little bit better than I originally anticipated, but I still have concerns,” Roy said during his Wednesday appearance on Fox News’s “The Will Cain Show.” 

“I voted against the rule in the committee because I wasn't at a place where I felt like we should advance the product last night,” the Texas Republican told host Will Cain. “I'm still in that place, right? I'm still looking through the bill. We got it yesterday."

“I asked every witness at the panel in the Rules Committee yesterday if they'd read the bill, who were testifying on the bill, and they haven't read it, Will. This is no way to do things, so I'm trying to go through the bill and understand it,” Roy said. 

The Senate passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act on Tuesday after Vice President Vance cast the tiebreaking vote, delivering a huge legislative win for President Trump.

The Senate bill would mark the biggest-ever cuts to Medicaid. Nearly 12 million low-income Americans would lose health insurance by 2034, the Congressional Budget Office projected. 

The legislation is now on the House side, where some moderate GOP members have expressed worry about the cuts to the social safety net. 

Roy, who called some of the last-minute changes senators made to the legislation before passing the package a “travesty,” has previously voiced concerns about the spending levels within Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.” 

On Wednesday, Roy told Cain he still has “massive observations about the 'green new scam' subsidies, and the overall spending level — so we're trying to work through those to see where we can go from here.”