Republicans will not be able to meet their budget target without making large cuts to Medicare and Medicaid, the Congressional Budget Office said. In a budget blueprint adopted last week, House Republicans instructed the House Energy and Commerce Committee,

The nonpartisan bookkeeper said there’s no other way to cut $1.5 trillion from the budget over the next decade.

The latest KFF poll was published as Republican lawmakers in Congress appear intent on making major spending cuts to the program. While President Donald Trump has maintained that he will not make such cuts, a budget bill in Congress supported by Trump will undoubtedly reduce Medicaid spending by hundreds of billions of dollars.