Is Medicaid driving the budget deficit, as Pat Toomey said? | PolitiFact

Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Penn., defended the Senate health care bill’s curbing of Medicaid spending by calling Medicaid the single-biggest driver of the federal budget deficit. Toomey said the proposed cuts to Medicaid spending would slow the growth of entitlement programs, which he claimed are "driving the fiscal train wreck we’re on" in a Morning Joe interview on July 10, 2017....
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/jul/12/pat-toomey/medicaid-driving-budget-deficit-pat-toomey-said/