claim: texas "spent close to a third of its budget on medicaid last year, a third of all state spending."
author: john cornyn
evidence_1: john cornyn singled out how much medicaid costs texas state government. ...  state spent close to a third of its budget on medicaid last year, a third of all state ...
evidence_2: all mostly true statements involving john cornyn. mostly true ... texas "spent  close to a third of its budget on medicaid last year, a third of all state spending.".
evidence_3: may 22, 2017 ... as congress debates the budget, states are eagerly waiting to hear how it will  affect them. ... nearly a third of all states' general fund revenues in fiscal year  2015. ... in states' budgets include federal funding for transportation, medicaid ...  of how states generate and spend money, suggests states' reliance on ...
evidence_4: state and local governments spent $2.8 trillion on direct general government in  fiscal ... in 2015, about one-third of state and local spending went toward  elementary and ... the national association of state budget officers (nasbo)  estimates that in .... all dates in sections about expenditures reference the fiscal  year unless ...
evidence_5: health care spending represents nearly half of the state budget. in fiscal 2015,  texas spent $42.9 billion on health care, or 43.1 percent of all its appropriations  from ... medicaid, a federal program jointly financed by the federal and state ....  chronic disease is responsible for nearly two-thirds of all deaths in texas each  year.