Poll: Minnesotans support Big Beautiful Bill

The latest Thinking Minnesota Poll shows widespread support for the changes mandated for Medicaid in the One Big Beautiful Bill passed by Congress and signed into law by President Trump on July 4, 2025. New Medicaid proposals in the bill including frequent eligibility checks, work requirements, residency requirements and ending payments to illegal immigrants are overwhelmingly popular with Minnesotans.

• Eighty-nine percent support requiring all Minnesota Medicaid recipients to live in Minnesota in order to receive benefits.
• Seventy-five percent support requiring Minnesota Medicaid recipients to have their eligibility reviewed annually.
• Fifty-eight percent support requiring nearly all adults to be working or looking for work in order to have health insurance through Medicaid.
• Sixty-one percent oppose having the state pay for health care for illegal immigrants.

The poll was conducted for American Experiment by Meeting Street Insights, a nationally recognized polling operation based in Charleston, S.C. Using a mix of cellular and landline phones, the company interviewed 500 registered voters across Minnesota from May 28-31, 2025. The margin of error is +-4.38 percent.

“The changes to Medicaid coming in the Big Beautiful Bill are about making sure the system is fair, and resources are going only to those who deserve our help, not to fund waste, fraud and abuse,” said John Hinderaker, President of Center of the American Experiment. “Despite the attempts at fearmongering by opponents of the bill, Minnesotans support making Medicaid more accountable.”

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Minnesota spends more on welfare per person in poverty than 48 other states. We are number two in the nation in Medicaid spending per person. The poll shows Minnesotans understand that we are one of the most generous states in the nation, with fifty-three percent agreeing with the statement that Minnesota spends more on Medicaid than other states. They also told us that welfare is the most likely program to contain waste and fraud in state government, followed closely by government-funded nonprofits.