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The Congressional Budget Office estimates the Medicaid cuts could leave nearly 12 million Americans uninsured.
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act provides more opportunities for enrollees to fall through the cracks by adding red tape, health experts say.
U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson looks at U.S. President Donald Trump signing the sweeping spending and tax legislation, known as the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act," to mark Independence Day, at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 4, 2025.
The “Big Beautiful Bill," as Trump has called it, includes a $1 trillion reduction in spending over the next decade for Medicaid, the government insurance program for low-income Americans. Trump signed the bill on July 4.
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed the “ Big, Beautiful Bill ” into law Friday, triggering a countdown to cuts that will impact many Maryland residents in the coming years.
The Senate version of the legislation makes even steeper cuts to Medicaid than the $800 billion slashed in the House-passed version of the bill.
The budget bill President Donald Trump signed into law last week includes more than $1 trillion in reductions to Medicaid spending over the next 10 years, along with nearly $200 billion in cuts to funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program during that same time, according to estimates from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.
As Republicans face criticism for slashing Medicaid, Hawley tried to shift the focus to a less-noticed part of the law that will benefit victims of nuclear waste.
“Mean and cruel” — that’s how U.S. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto described Medicaid cuts in President Donald Trump’s budget bill after passage in the Senate. She gathered Nevada health care leaders and workers July 2 to talk about how the state would be affected.
Medicaid cuts in Trump’s tax bill will ‘devastate’ access to care in rural Pennsylvania, critics say
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Republican Congressman Mark Amodei doesn't view Medicaid changes as cuts, but Nevada hospitals and health care providers say they do.
Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.) sparred with CNN commentator Scott Jennings over comments he made Wednesday on Medicaid and steep cuts to the program included in President Trump’s “big,