Medicaid, Republicans and tax cut
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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.
Republicans' proposed Medicaid cuts will cause 8.6 million people to lose health insurance by 2034, an estimate shows. Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said it will cost Republicans seats in Congress.
Entitlement cuts are always a poison pill to elected officials. Here, the planned revisions to Medicaid that may be part of the Republicans’ “big, beautiful bill” is a handy tool for Democratic opposition touching a raw nerve.
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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.
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,