House debates Republican Medicaid, tax proposals and more
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Republicans in Congress are moving with rapid speed to advance President Donald Trump’s big bill of tax breaks, spending cuts and beefed-up border security funding as leaders work to enact many of
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Republicans and Democrats grew weary in the early hours of Wednesday morning on Capitol Hill as they slogged through at-times contentious debate over provisions in President Donald Trump’s sweeping tax and spending cuts package.
Republicans want the Energy and Commerce Committee, which oversees Medicaid, to eliminate at least $880 billion in spending. It was mathematically impossible to reach that number without somehow fiddling with Medicaid,
North Carolina health officials are warning that one of the many proposals being floated in Congress to shrink a key Medicaid funding mechanism could devastate hospitals and nursing homes across the state — cutting hundreds of millions of dollars from a system already straining to meet growing needs.
Fiscal hawks are lashing out over what they say are the lack of Medicaid reforms in President Trump’s legislative package, which could thwart the House GOP’s goal of passing the legislation next
The House Ways and Means Committee will meet Tuesday to consider the plan. Here's what's currently included for individuals.
Central to the savings are changes to Medicaid, which provides almost free health care to more than 70 million Americans, and the Affordable Care Act,
House Republicans on Sunday night offered the first glimpse of their Medicaid overhaul plan, which is expected to cut billions of dollars to help finance President Donald Trump’s sweeping tax and spending cuts agenda.