Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), a member of the Senate Finance Committee, on Thursday said GOP lawmakers are looking at changes to Medicare to root out waste, fraud and abuse.

Republican senators are taking a closer look at finding savings in Medicare to increase the total amount of deficit reduction in President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” Tillis said a day after the Finance panel met with Trump at the White House.

The Congressional Budget Office released a report this week estimating that the House-passed 1,116-page bill would add $2.4 trillion to the national debt over the next decade.

Tillis says that overhauling systems at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) could save a substantial amount of money without impacting Medicare benefits, which Trump has said should not be

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