Senate, Medicaid and Big Beautiful Bill
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Senate Republicans on Monday proposed deeper Medicaid cuts, including new work requirements for parents of teens, as a way to offset the costs of making President Donald Trump's tax breaks more permanent as they unveiled draft legislation for his “big,
Senate Finance Committee unveils its proposed changes to the House-passed version of Trump's "big, beautiful bill," which could put the two chambers on collision course.
Though most Senate Republicans exited a closed-door briefing without publicly opposing the measure, several are raising serious concerns, casting doubt on whether the bill has enough support to pass
President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans are promising that their sweeping tax and spending cuts package will usher in an era of historic economic growth.
The KFF poll found that about 61% of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents — and 72% of the subset who identify with Trump’s “Make American Great Again” movement — support the bill, which would extend many of Trump’s 2017 tax cuts while reducing spending on domestic programs, including cutting billions from Medicaid.
The main cost-saving provision in the GOP’s big bill – new work requirements on able-bodied adults who receive health care through the Medicaid program — would cause millions of people to
House Republicans banned taxpayer funds for gender transition procedures in a spending bill, and Democrats argued it cuts "medically necessary care" for transgender individuals.
The health policy nonprofit KFF estimated between 120,000 and 190,000 people in Colorado could lose their insurance, mostly through falling off the Medicaid rolls, over the next 10 years.