President Trump has insisted — loudly and repeatedly — that his administration won’t cut Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security.
March deadline to avoid a partial government shutdown, and hesitation is surfacing among congressional Republicans about potential cuts to Medicaid.
Medicaid has been a hot topic in recent weeks, after GOP budget appeared to propose cuts to spending on programs like Medicaid.
House Republicans are expected to vote on a spending blueprint Tuesday that would kickstart the legislative process for enacting President Donald Trump’s policy agenda—but nearly $1 trillion in potential cuts to Medicaid has made some Republicans uneasy,
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker on Friday warned that neither his state nor others across the country could make up for the potential loss of billions of dollars if President Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans slash Medicaid funding.
Around a dozen House Republicans are uneasy about the prospect of voting for their party’s budget proposal over potential cuts to Medicaid, according to several people familiar with the conversations.
At the first Cabinet meeting of his second term, President Donald Trump leaned forward and made a promise. A reporter had just asked about a U.S. House budget bill that passed the night before and included $2 trillion in cuts to mandatory federal spending.
Meanwhile, Medicaid is the largest program providing medical and health-related services to low-income individuals, and Medicare is a federal health insurance program for people a
These cuts would rip care away from children, seniors, disabled Californians, and more while raising costs for everyone, all to give tax breaks to the ultra-wealthy,” Amanda McAllister-Wallner, interim executive director of Health Access California,
Mike Johnson’s prize for victory on Trump’s budget? A fight over Medicaid - House Republicans go to war with math as they try to save hundreds of billions of dollars without scaling back critical health care coverage,