MSNBC host Joe Scarborough sparred with U.S. Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) on Friday over his vote to pass President Donald Trump’s “big beautiful bill" of spending cuts and tax breaks.

Scarborough explained that hospitals in Lawler’s district have already sounded alarm on the massive cuts to Medicaid included in Trump’s “big beautiful bill" signed into law last month. Lawler pushed back on Scarborough’s reporting, instead blaming the state of New York for the issues facing his district’s hospitals.

“How are the hospitals in your district going to manage with all the cuts to Medicaid that are going to be coming up because it’s — obviously some of them already said it’s going to impact them," Scarborough asked Lawler on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Friday.

“So this whole notion that is bei

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