The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects that the proposed changes would reduce healthcare coverage for 8.6 million people over the next decade. Specifically, the Medicaid portions of the Republican 'megabill' would result in 10.

Democrats argue the Republican strategy—cutting Medicaid and destabilizing Social Security—amounts to an all-out war on working-class Americans. The CBO report estimates that the GOP’s Medicaid policy shifts would reduce the federal deficit by as much as $710 billion over the next decade,