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Benefits Warnings Issued Over Budget: 'Destroy Medicaid'

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Speaker Mike Johnson's budget plan includes potentially $880 billion in spending cuts from the House Energy and Commerce Committee , which oversees Medicaid , over the next decade .

About 24 percent of people in the U.S. are enrolled in Medicaid , according to an estimate from NYU Langone Health .

Social Security Works , a group that campaigns for the preservation of benefits and health care, said the budget would "destroy Medicaid ".