Obamacare Expansion Cash Could Fill Huge Highway Funding Gap

Are Republicans willing to increase taxes or cut infrastructure spending to keep federal taxpayers on the hook for Obamacare expansion?

U.S. Rep. Bruce Westerman hopes not, and the freshman Republican from Arkansas is offering another option.

Westerman will introduce a bill Thursday to patch a hole in the Highway Trust Fund with money saved by reducing Obamacare expansion's federal match rate to traditional Medicaid levels.

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