There’s 35 million people under the poverty line inside the United States, and there’s 70 million people that are signed up for Medicaid,” Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.)

Fresh off announcing he'll retire next year, Sen. Thom Tillis gave a lengthy floor speech Sunday night attacking cuts to Medicaid in the "big, beautiful bill." Why it matters: The North Carolina Republican is accusing the GOP of breaking President Trump's campaign promises to protect Medicaid.

Key Medicaid cuts will have to be struck from the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” in the Senate, if Republicans want to pass it with a simple majority, but hospital associations are still concerned about what policies will make it to the final bill.