CNN Host Spars with Rep. Jim Jordan Over Medicaid Funding: ‘I’m Not the Left, I’m a Journalist’

CNN Host Spars With GOP Rep Over Medicaid Funding: ‘I’m Not the Left, I’m a Journalist’ (The Washington Free Beacon)

Rep. Jim Jordan (R., Ohio) got into a heated exchange with CNN's Poppy Harlow on Thursday over the nature of Medicaid cuts in the Republican health care bill.

"But, to the Medicaid issue. Remember, it is not a cut in Medicaid. It's a reduction in the rate of growth. It's going to grow a lot over ten years," Jordan said.

"Come on, congressman, that is semantics. That is semantics because there's inflation, and costs have to grow, and budgeting has to grow with that, I mean that is semantics," Harlow said. "It will be cut by $834 billion over the next decade from where it would be under—"