Republican leaders in the U.S. Senate have decided not to bring forward an amendment from Sen. Rick Scott that sought to pare back the federal government’s share of Medicaid spending, effectively blocking the latest conservative effort to shrink the program’s expansion under the Affordable Care Act. The amendment, which would have reduced federal Medicaid spending by an additional $313 billion and was described by backers as “really good policy,” had drawn early support from Senate Majority Leader John Thune and several conservative colleagues. Those lawmakers met with Thune late Monday night to discuss next steps for attaching deeper Medicaid cuts to President Donald Trump’s sweeping fiscal package. By Tuesday morning, however, GOP leadership signaled the measure would not receive a floor vote, underscoring internal divisions over the scale of reductions to the safety-net program. The decision leaves Trump’s broader megabill moving ahead without the sharper Medicaid trims sought by Scott and other fiscal hawks.