Trump, Medicaid and tax proposals
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House Republicans are eyeing a vote on the final package before Memorial Day, even as they have yet to reach consensus on several key issues.
It's markup week in the House for the 'one big, beautiful bill.' Lawmakers in one house committee passed major changes to Medicaid despite protests and pushback.
News reports have varying estimates of the exact number of billions in Medicaid cuts. And Politico reports that some Republicans were caught by surprise by some of the provisions in the bill. Also: The House Agriculture Committee greenlights as much as $300 billion in food aid spending cuts.
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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.
Lawmakers bickered, protesters shouted and senators came to take in the moment as a House committee considered a critical portion of a bill to enact President Trump’s domestic agenda.
House Republicans are holding meetings to advance three of the most controversial pieces to the “big, beautiful bill” at the heart of President Trump’s agenda — and there have been some
At the hearing, Kennedy doubled down on nearly every major anti-scientific position he has taken, while attempting to falsely portray looming Medicaid cuts as eliminating “fraud and abuse.”
The Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means, and Agriculture committees will hammer out details on Medicaid and nutritional assistance spending and tax cuts.