President Donald Trump, pushing back Thursday at claims that cuts to Medicaid included in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act will harm the nation’s rural hospitals, pointed out that a provision in the legislation was included to strengthen them instead.

“Americans know we need a better Healthcare System to properly serve our Great Communities that were abandoned by the Radical Left Democrats,” Trump said on his Truth Social page. “That is why Republicans included $50 Billion Dollars in the ‘ONE BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL’ — to strengthen our most vulnerable Hospitals, including those in Rural areas.”

However, he stressed that all Democrats in Congress voted against the funding.

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