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Red states would be hit hardest by GOP's next budget moves: analysis
House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has taken major cuts to the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion off the table for now, ...
Republicans fear political cost of Medicaid cuts
Republicans worried about losing their slim House majority next year are struggling with how to achieve Medicaid savings as ...
How Medicaid reform could pay for Trump’s ‘one big, beautiful bill,’ reverse Bidenflation, and ‘Make America Great Again’
Democrats had their shot to remake the U.S. economy in 2010 fundamentally, and they took it. After 15 years of their failed ...
The Biggest Medicaid Cut Left for House Republicans Would Hit Red States Hardest
House Speaker Mike Johnson said Tuesday that major cuts to the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion were off the table. Now, the largest cut left among their whittled-down options would ...
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GOP Medicaid ideas could take thousands off rolls, analysis says; what it means for Louisiana
Millions of people could be thrown off Medicaid if some of the top options being considered in Congress become law, according ...
As GOP concerns about Medicaid cuts grow, hard-liners pressure Speaker Mike Johnson on lower deficits
Johnson said some controversial proposals to slash Medicaid were off the table for the massive Trump agenda bill, while ...
Conservatives chafe at taking Medicaid savings options off table
House GOP leaders’ decision to step back from two pathways to major Medicaid cost savings has fueled contempt with hard-line ...
House GOP leadership caves to centrist Republicans on Medicaid despite fiscal hawks’ demands
Mike Johnson and House Republican leadership met with the centrist holdouts for nearly two hours to discuss pathways forward ...
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Why MAGA May Have Lost Its Appetite for Slashing Medicaid
In a social media post Monday, Loomer called Brian Blase, the president of Paragon Health Institute, a “RINO Saboteur” for ...
GOP Plans To Cut Medicaid Would Kick Millions Off Health Insurance, New Analysis Says
Medicaid is a state-federal program that covers health care costs for more than 70 million Americans. The CBO said the various proposals to shrink the federal share of Medicaid costs would force ...
Johnson Rules Out an Aggressive Plan to Cut Medicaid as G.O.P. Moderates Waver
The Republican speaker’s decision underscored the resistance in his party to politically painful reductions to the program, ...
Medicaid Expansions Saved Tens of Thousands of Lives, Study Finds
The study, published in the National Bureau of Economic Research on May 5, tracked nearly 40 million people who gained ...