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Republicans are holding the line on the messaging that the budget reconciliation bill does not cut Medicaid benefits for vulnerable people.

The bill includes stronger restrictions on Medicaid, which provides health care coverage to over 70 million low-income and disabled Americans, including 1.72 million Coloradans.