When combined with the $1.6 trillion in spending reductions, this bill represents historic savings for taxpayers... To achieve this record level of savings, we are slashing Biden’s Green New Deal spending... We are also rooting out waste, fraud and abuse in federal spending programs, like Medicaid.
Cut wasteful federal spending by eliminating Green New Deal subsidies and rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse in programs like Medicaid.
Occurrences
Evidence
GovInfo lists the enrolled H.R. 1 bill, later enacted as P.L. 119-21, and its codified references include 42 U.S.C. 1396a, 1396b, 1396d, 1396n, 1396o, 1396p, and 1396u-2, showing the reconciliation law amended Medicaid and related health programs.
CRS states that P.L. 119-21, enacted on July 4, 2025, includes Medicaid community engagement requirements, multiple Medicaid eligibility and provider participation changes, and private health insurance provisions affecting premium tax credits; CRS estimates the health provisions reduce federal outlays by $1.1 trillion over FY2025-FY2034, with Medicaid provisions accounting for most of the reduction.
The Senate roll call shows Mike Crapo voted Yea on passage of H.R. 1 on July 1, 2025, and the measure passed.
Crapo said the legislation achieves historic savings by targeting waste, fraud and abuse in federal spending programs, and that he looked forward to getting it to the President’s desk.
Crapo’s office said the law eliminates hundreds of billions of dollars of Green New Deal subsidies, prevents Medicaid payments for ineligible or duplicate enrollees, increases eligibility verification, and slows Medicaid spending growth by addressing waste, fraud and abuse.
Crapo said the Working Families Tax Cuts took significant steps to reform Medicaid and curb waste, fraud and abuse, and he cited Medicaid spending growth and ongoing implementation work. The column reflects continued public defense of the enacted reforms, but it does not show full elimination of all claimed subsidies or all Medicaid waste.
CMS said it was implementing statutory changes through a final rule that closed a Medicaid financing loophole and saved billions for federal taxpayers. This is concrete federal implementation of the same broader cost-cutting and program-integrity agenda, though it addresses only one subset of the promise.
Axios reported House Republicans were considering a new reconciliation bill partly financed by savings from an ongoing crackdown on fraud in Medicare and Medicaid. The piece said CMS had already frozen certain Medicaid payments and asked states to revalidate high-risk providers.
Axios Phoenix reported Arizona's attorney general still had about 200 active cases in a sober-living-home Medicaid fraud scandal, with investigators saying they had uncovered about $2.8 billion in fraudulent billing since 2021 and expected more indictments.
Kiplinger said the federal EV charger tax credit, the Alternative Fuel Vehicle Refueling Property Credit, was set to expire on June 30, 2026 because of the GOP's 2025 tax law. The article described the credit as still available through that deadline, with IRS Form 8911 required to claim it.
The Guardian reported the Justice Department charged 15 people in Minnesota over an alleged $90 million healthcare scheme, saying the case was the largest Medicaid-related fraud matter in the state and that it followed a federal anti-fraud blitz.
Assessments
As an incumbent U.S. senator, Mike Crapo can receive credit for legislation he supported and helped advance during the same term. The evidence shows that the 2025 reconciliation law he backed became law in July 2025, cut federal health outlays, amended Medicaid eligibility and payment rules, and was later implemented through CMS anti-abuse actions. That supports real progress on the promise to cut spending and target Medicaid waste, fraud, and abuse. But the record does not show complete elimination of the broader set of claimed Green New Deal subsidies, and ongoing large Medicaid fraud cases indicate the problem was not fully rooted out. Because the outcome was materially advanced and partly achieved, but not fully delivered, the best judgment is partial.
Crapo materially advanced and voted for H.R. 1/P.L. 119-21 during his current Senate term, and as Senate Finance chairman publicly tied the law to cutting Green New Deal-related subsidies and reducing Medicaid waste, fraud, and abuse. The enacted law made substantial Medicaid eligibility, financing, and spending changes and reduced projected federal health outlays, with later CMS implementation reinforcing that some program-integrity and spending-restraint measures took effect. However, the promise was broad: eliminating Green New Deal subsidies and rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse in programs like Medicaid. The evidence supports significant enacted reforms and savings, but not full elimination of all targeted subsidies or all Medicaid waste, fraud, and abuse. Therefore this is partial delivery with clear same-term effort and enactment.
The evidence shows Crapo supported and helped pass H.R. 1/P.L. 119-21 during the same Senate term, and official/CRS sources indicate the law reduced federal outlays, changed Medicaid eligibility and verification rules, and repealed or reduced some clean-energy/Green New Deal-style subsidies. However, the record does not establish complete elimination of all such subsidies or comprehensive removal of waste, fraud, and abuse across Medicaid; it shows meaningful enacted reforms matching part of the promise. Therefore the promise is best rated partial rather than fully delivered.