Republicans cannot achieve their goal of cutting $2 trillion in federal spending over the next decade without cuts to Medicaid, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO). Medicaid, the joint federal-state program that provides health coverage to more than 72 million low-income Americans, has been under attack by some Republicans who say it’s a wasteful welfare program that benefits people who don’t need it. Democrats, however, view Medicaid as a way to provide affordable health care to everyone.

Watch the video above as Straight Arrow News contributor Star Parker argues that Medicaid functions as a welfare trap and must be reined in. She claims that as beneficiaries’ incomes rise, their benefits decrease, leaving many low-income Black Americans dependent on the government.

The following is an excerpt from the above video:

One of the thorny issues going forward is going to be the vastly expanded and increasingly expensive Medicaid program. Despite warnings from fiscally responsible people that Congress could not long sustain a 90% federal match for states that expanded their Medicaid programs to include many able-bodied people without children, many governors and state legislators succumbed to the political pressure, and they massively expanded their Medicaid programs. And we told them then that this would not work overtime, Obamacare was not good for the country.

Well, now members of Congress from the Medicaid-expanded states are objecting to the idea that Medicaid costs need to be restrained, and states need to assume more responsibility for accomplishing that objective.