Trump, House GOP Meet to Discuss Whether to Cut Medicaid for Millions of Americans

House Speaker Mike Johnson 

Photographer: Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg

President Donald Trump and House Republicans met to wrangle over one of the thorniest issues dividing the party: whether to cut Medicaid benefits for millions of low-income Americans.

House Speaker Mike Johnson and Representative Brett Guthrie, who chairs the committee that oversees Medicaid, met with the president at the White House Thursday morning to discuss potential cuts to the health coverage program.