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Key House committees pass tax and Medicaid portions of GOP's sweeping bill for Trump's agenda
House Republicans are eyeing a vote on the final package before Memorial Day, even as they have yet to reach consensus on ...
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House GOP Eyes New Medicaid Reforms In ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill’ To Stave Off Conservative Revolt
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise said Thursday that House Republicans would accelerate the timeline for Medicaid work ...
Big beautiful bill in the balance: GOP fractures over Medicaid work requirements
Medicaid work requirements are a sticking point with fiscal hawks, three of whom sit on the Budget Committee, as they think ...
Providers fear Medicaid cuts could worsen Maine's health care access crisis
Spending cuts proposed by congressional Republicans would result in an estimated 34,000 Maine people losing Medicaid coverage, harming health care providers and patients, experts say. But the current ...
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Federal Budget Bill Includes a Medicare Pay Hike for MDs, But Will It Stick?
Lawmakers tussle over a federal budget bill that includes a Medicare rate increase for clinicians starting in 2026.
These are the Americans at risk of losing coverage due to proposed Medicaid cuts
Republicans are proposing cuts to Medicaid as part of President Donald Trump's spending bill. Some Americans are worried the ...
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Bernie Sanders says GOP bill would strip Medicaid, health care from 13.7 million. That’s too high.
Sanders is counting policy changes not in the current draft to reach the higher, 13.7 million figure. The Republican proposal to cut federal spending will end up kicking millions of Americans off ...
Key GOP holdout on Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ calls for deeper cuts to Medicaid, ‘Green New Deal’ spending
Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) huddled with White House officials and Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought on Saturday to voice those concerns — but didn’t commit to backing ...