The House GOP “big beautiful bill” will add so much money to the debt it will force across-the-board spending cuts to Medicare, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO). CBO

Some $500 billion in cuts to Medicare could be avoided if Congress instructs the White House budget office to disregard the reconciliation package’s debt impact.

Medicare could face nearly $500 billion in cuts over the next decade under Republicans’ “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” which also proposes significant reductions to Medicaid and other healthcare programs According to a May 20 report from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office,