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Gov. JB Pritzker warns of Medicaid cuts, pushes White House to release $1.88 billion in funds
Pritzker traveled to Washington Tuesday to further sound the alarm on a pending GOP budget cut to Medicaid that will strip ...
Medicaid cuts put GOP on collision course in race to pass Trump budget
Republicans have a Medicaid problem as GOP lawmakers scramble to find agreement on a budget framework and advance Trump's ...
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DOGE didn’t ‘discover’ $2.7 trillion in improper payments in Medicare and Medicaid overseas
The nonpartisan US Government Accountability Office did, in March 2024, and the estimate includes all federal agencies since 2003 ...
Pritzker warns of Medicaid cuts, pushes White House to release $1.88B in funds
The governor traveled to Washington Tuesday to push for the release of frozen federal funds to Illinois and to warn of ...
Republicans once maligned Medicaid. Now some see a program too big to touch
March deadline to avoid a partial government shutdown, and hesitation is surfacing among congressional Republicans about ...
Republican Lawmakers And Trump Administration Take Aim At Medicaid Spending
House Republicans passed a budget plan that seeks to extend tax cuts enacted in 2018 and reduce Medicaid spending. The ...
Chief Justice Allows U.S. to Continue Freeze on Foreign Aid Payments
On Feb. 13, Judge Ali issued an order requiring agencies to release funds for any “contracts, grants, cooperative agreements, ...
USAID official placed on leave after saying barriers to life-saving programs will cause ‘preventable death’
Nick Enrich, the acting assistant administrator for USAID Global Health, said in a memo that "lifesaving humanitarian ...