Senate Majority Leader John Thune is making the case for reforming Medicaid in President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” — arguing that eliminating alleged waste, fraud and abuse in the entitlement program is the “right thing to do.” Thune told the Daily Caller News Foundation in an exclusive interview Wednesday that the Senate is likely to keep House-passed provisions reforming Medicaid while leaving open the possibility that the upper chamber will tweak the language. Though key text outlining reforms to Medicaid in the Senate bill have not been released thus far, Thune lauded some of the House lawmakers’ reforms to the entitlement program and cited the need to rein in Medicaid spending’s explosive growth as justification for preserving some of the House provisions, which is expected to yield significant savings. READ MORE: https://dailycaller.com/2025/06/11/exclusive-thune-medicaid-reforms-big-beautiful-bill/?utm_campaign=whatsapp&utm_medium=organic&utm_source=WhatsApp