About 1.6 million Americans have been removed from Medicaid during the first six months of President Donald Trump’s second term, according to new numbers from the health research group KFF, per Newsweek.

The drop reflects continued rollbacks of pandemic-era protections that expanded access to the program. During the COVID-19 public health emergency, states were barred from removing people from Medicaid even if their income changed.

That policy, enacted under former President Joe Biden, pushed enrollment to more than 87 million people by March 2023, up from 64.5 million in early 2020. States restarted removals in March 2023, and coverage has steadily declined. As of July 2025, enrollment had fallen to about 70.3 million. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) said it aims to

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