The Republican senator introduced a bill Tuesday that would block restrictions on key strategies that states rely on to finance Medicaid and double a rural hospital fund.

Saying he still opposes Medicaid cuts, Missouri’s senior U.S. senator defends supporting spending bill because there were too many benefits to oppose passage.

Just two weeks after voting for a GOP megabill that slashed Medicaid, Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) is trying to roll back the damage. On July 15, he unveiled the Protect Medicaid and Rural Hospitals Act,