House Speaker Mike Johnson said Tuesday that major cuts to the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion were off the table. Now, the largest cut left among their whittled-down options would disproportionately hurt states that supported Mr. Trump in the 2024 election.

Here & Now‘s Peter O’Dowd speaks with reporter Sahil Kapur, who reports on divisions among Republicans over how to cut $880 billion without cutting Medicaid or raising the deficit. This article was originally published on WBUR.