Mississippi governor intent on income tax cut even if states receive less federal money

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

82% : Reeves, who spoke during a news conference Wednesday, has supported Trump since the 2016 election.
57% : About $6.5 billion of the federal money was for Medicaid.
49% : One of the biggest chunks of federal money is for Medicaid, a government health insurance program for low-income residents.
46% : "To the extent that the federal government wants to reduce federal funding -- and I think they should -- they need to give states more flexibility on what segments of the population are covered and which ones are not," Reeves said of Medicaid.
34% : Trump said Tuesday that he had chosen Elon Musk and former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy to lead an effort that could significantly reduce spending and the size of the federal government.

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