Texas Looking to Push Medicaid Out of the State While Also Launching a War Against the EPA

God bless Texas! They continue to fight big government leviathan in the Lone Star State. The latest sign of this is the fight to discontinue participation in the federal Medicaid program.

Some Republican lawmakers — still reveling in Tuesday’s statewide election sweep — are proposing an unprecedented solution to the state’s estimated $25 billion budget shortfall: dropping out of the federal Medicaid program.

“With Obamacare mandates coming down, we have a situation where we cannot reduce benefits or change eligibility” to cut costs, said State Representative Warren Chisum, Republican of Pampa, the veteran conservative lawmaker who recently entered the race for speaker of the House. “This system is bankrupting our state,” he said. “We need to get out of it. And with the budget shortfall we’re anticipating, we may have to act this year.”

Guess what? Texas has the right to drop out of it. There is no Constitutional authority given to the Federal Government to push this upon the state. Obviously, the state of Texas doesn't want to follow the failed path of California, which is currently borrowing $40 million a day from the other 49 to make ends meet. California now owes the federal government $8.6 billion and will owe over $10 billion by the end of the year. The good people of Texas don't want to go down this path.

Texas also launched a war against the EPA, filing seven law suits against the EPA earlier this year. God bless Texas. Texas is showing California how a state should be run and it starts by fighting the federal government, not depending on it.