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On 4 December 2016, the web site If You Only News published an article reporting that Texas Republicans emboldened by the 2016 general election had enacted drastic cuts to Medicaid spending for children with disabilities: The claim linked to a 28 November 2016 Texas Tribune article that clarified the issue: It is true that a large cut to Medicaid has been made in Texas (to which families and cares of disabled children strongly objected), but linking the news to the 2016 election was misleading. As the above-quoted excerpt (on which the subsequent claim was based) clearly states, the Texas Legislature directed the cuts in 2015. The article also reported that significant developments took place in September 2016, several weeks prior to the 8 November 2016 election: While Texas did enact significant Medicaid cuts in a manner that stood to affect children with disabilities (and others), that proposal came long before the 2016 general election.
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