member of Kentucky's federal delegation this morning in Nashville.

Congressman Brett Guthrie represents Kentucky's second district is now chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce that's tasked with making 880 billion dollars in federal spending cuts from the programs under its jurisdiction.

>> Which include the joint federal-state health care program called Medicaid.

It serves low-income Americans.

Here's what he had to say about that.

>> We know that there are lots of conversations about federal spending right now and weather are not Medicaid could be rolled back and I'll be back and there are some concern and the addiction recovery community that any kind of rollbacks to Medicaid in the expansion of Medicaid would directly impact those recovery efforts in games that have been made to help those who are to get the treatment that they need.

>> Well, just set the record straight about where you stand because you hear a lot of people talk about Medicare.

We're going to spend more money over Medicaid are every year over the next 10 years.

So the budget, a 10 year budget window that we're working on.

>> We're going to spend more money every year than we spent a day or in each year.

So what Medicaid is projected to grow the total 800 billion over the next 10 years.

800 billion sunset.

It's of some of the 700 billion dollar program.

Now 800 billion more over above inflation.

And so what we're trying to do is how do we manage the growth of Medicaid?

And so I understand that people are concerned, but states are using recovery money for recovery now.

And what we're talking about doing is is capping.

The grows.

And so if they're doing it now, people shouldn't have to turn on turn back on programs and we don't expect them to.

But we can't.

You know, we have 1.8 trillion dollar budget deficit.

It's all important.

We understand is important.

But we have to have some savings and health care.

We're not going to be able to.

Really it's going to collapse eventually.

And so we want to solve the problem before it collapsed.

Then it's a different conversation.

But we believe states are going to have ample money to do what they're doing now.

>> So it's just a side, a report that came out recently that was released by Democrats to the Congressional Joint Economic Committee.

They warned that medical treatment for more than a million people in the U.S. now receiving treatment for opioid addiction, including fentanyl could be affected and could be at risk.

You say there's no word there's not worried.

Say so.

>> If you say we're going to address a budget deficit, you can pick anything you want is they want they address the budget deficit is going to cause this problem.

We understand now we're going to as states to manage the money.

We're going to take to manage your money and states will make decisions.

So the employee, so the implication is if states are limit on how much or Medicaid budget can grow.

So what Democrats will be saying that state governments are going to start kicking people out of assisted treatment programs.

I don't believe that our General Assembly in Kentucky would ever do that right?

>> And that's not approached that you wouldn't do not at all.

Not approach it all in and so Medicaid.

The problem is Medicaid is a state program run by state government.

They make decisions on what they span.

So that's up to the states.

But federal government pays for a large part of it.

And in the expansion population after the Affordable Care Act, the federal government pays 90% of it.

And so since that's happened, it's just ballooned and grown astronomically and we have a 1, 1, 8, during the budget deficit.

So we want to get a handle on the growth.

So states are spending money today on those programs and they can let those programs grow at inflation.

They can still run those programs.

Now they want to be inefficient or or say, well, if you're going to hold us to inflation, we don't take this money.

Wife, whatever's been it somewhere else.

I have more faith in our state government.

I guess the Democrats too.