Medicaid, Trump and GOP
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President Donald Trump has repeatedly vowed he wouldn't allow Medicaid to be cut, but House Republicans' bill to fund his agenda aims to cut hundreds of billions of dollars from the program that provides health care for poor, elderly and disabled Americans.
Republicans in Congress are moving with rapid speed to advance President Donald Trump's big bill of tax breaks, spending cuts and beefed-up border security funding as leaders work to enact many of his campaign promises.
The House Ways and Means Committee named its package "THE ONE, BIG, BEAUTIFUL BILL'' in all capital letters, a nod to President Trump himself.
Markup hearings for President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” dragged late through the night Tuesday into Wednesday as House lawmakers debated how deep to cut government spending in the massive piece of legislation.
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Tensions rose and emotions flared as the hours dragged on into early Wednesday morning. House Republicans are working to push President Donald Trump’s signature legislative package through a gauntlet of committees and mounting opposition from Democrats, advocacy groups and even some wary Republicans themselves.
Republicans in the U.S. Congress advanced elements of President Donald Trump's sweeping budget package on Wednesday after a debate that lasted through the night, as a key committee voted along party lines to approve tax cuts that would add trillions of dollars to the U.
House Republicans unveiled legislation late Sunday that would cut government spending on Medicaid for able-bodied Americans and illegal immigrants.
House Republicans want to impose work requirements on some Medicaid recipients up to 64 years old and impose more costs on some beneficiaries to help pay for President Donald Trump’s planned sweeping tax package.
An ambitious House bill to cut taxes by hundreds of billions of dollars and pay for part of it by slashing Medicaid spending faces a rocky path in the Senate, where Republican lawmakers warn the