OLYMPIA — Washington state Democrats have sharply criticized the One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s cuts to federal Medicaid funding.

Now a state Republican lawmaker is calling them out for “hypocrisy.”

For months, Gov. Bob Ferguson has banged the drum against against federal Medicaid reductions in H.R. 1. Despite blowback, President Donald Trump signed the far-reaching tax and policy bill into law July 4.

But state Rep. Travis Couture, an Allyn Republican, says the budget that Ferguson approved in May slashes more than $782 million from Medicaid: $446 million in federal dollars and $336.5 million in state matching funding.

Close to 95% of those reductions hit services for seniors and people with disabilities, general medical care and long-term care assistance, according to an Aug. 18 news r

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