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When is a Medicaid cut not actually a cut?   That’s the $800 billion question facing Senate Republicans as they write their own version of the sweeping House-passed tax and spending ...
Donald Trump is back in the White House, the GOP controls Congress, and Republicans have dusted off their 2017 plans to ...
The Republican plan was shaping up to be a political albatross. Putting Medicare funding on the table probably won’t help.
Meanwhile, on the U.S. Senate side, ultra-MAGA GOP Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri is expressing vehement opposition to Medicaid cuts — a position that gives him some unlikely common ground with ...
The legislation’s backers would rather dismiss uncomfortable facts and the people harmed by the bill they support.
This internal conflict within the Republican party comes at a time when millions of Americans stand to lose their Medicaid health insurance coverage due to proposals by Republican Congress members ...
The same conflicts that plagued House Republicans ... “The fact that the Republican Party stands for slashing Medicaid … all to give tax breaks for the billionaires, helps us,” the top ...
WASHINGTON — House Republicans released legislative text Sunday evening of a key portion of their party-line agenda bill that includes cuts and other changes to Medicaid, one of the most ...
“Without Republican solutions, Washington risks a complete collapse of Medicaid. Even with these simple steps to eliminate waste and abuse, Medicaid spending will continue to rise every year for ...
House Republicans plan to enact work requirements and more frequent eligibility checks for Medicaid. But the proposal does not pursue some of the deeper cuts that lawmakers had considered.
John McCain's middle-of-the-night thumbs-down vote torpedoed Republican efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act and make drastic cuts to Medicaid. With Donald Trump back in the White House and ...