Trump pledged not to cut Medicaid. Is he keeping that promise?

WASHINGTON — It’s among his most famous campaign promises: Donald Trump pledged he would not cut Medicaid as president.

But the legislation that Trump has aggressively promoted, and that Congress is expected to vote on Thursday, appears to do exactly that. It would reduce Medicaid spending by hundreds of billions of dollars over 10 years, compared with current law, while dramatically altering the financing of a program that covers 70 million Americans.