The Senate’s deep cuts to Medicaid in the tax and spending megabill are setting off alarm bells among some Republicans, complicating leadership's effort to get the legislation passed by July 4.
It seeks to clamp down on two tactics states use to boost Medicaid funding to hospitals: state-directed payments and Medicaid provider taxes. The restrictions are a major concern for rural hospitals, a key constituency for senators.
Republicans have set an ambi...
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Senate’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ faces House headwinds: ‘This is political stupidity’
The Senate GOP’s version of the “big, beautiful bill” is facing major headwinds in the House as a growing number of lawmakers stake opposition to the legislation, a troubling sign for Republican leaders as they try to fast-track the package full of President Trump’s legislative priorities.
The Senate Finance Committee on Monday released the final piece of text for the upper chamber’s edition of the legislation. It changed key parts of the House’s blueprint, including beefin...
Senate releases tax plan for Trump bill
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Some Republicans balk at Medicaid cuts
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Oz to pitch GOP senators on need for Medicaid changes
Mehmet Oz, the administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, is scheduled to speak to Republican senators at lunch Tuesday on the need to reform Medicaid, according to a GOP source familiar with the schedule.
Oz is expected to speak in detail about the need to protect the program for low-income families, the elderly and the disabled, and what the administration views as current abuses of the program, such as people in the country without authorization ...
House, Senate set for clash over Trump bill
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Here’s what’s in the Senate GOP’s version of Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’
The Senate Finance Committee on Monday unveiled its portion of President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” containing provisions on Medicaid, taxes and green energy tax credits.
The committee’s text is the final piece of the upper chamber’s version of the bill to be released, and was the most highly anticipated. It contains some of the thorniest provisions that Senate GOP holdouts have expressed concerns about, and the issues that could set the upper chamber on a collision course...
Senate GOP takes bigger swing at Medicaid in Trump agenda bill
Senate Republicans are taking a bigger swing at Medicaid in their version of legislation to fund President Trump’s domestic policy agenda and extend his first-term tax cuts.
According to text released by the Senate Finance Committee late Monday, the legislation seeks to clamp down on two tactics states use to boost Medicaid funding to providers: state-directed payments and Medicaid provider taxes.
The legislation would effectively cap provider taxes at...
New ad highlights harms of Medicaid cuts
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Senate releases Trump tax and Medicaid blueprint
Senate Finance Committee Chair Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) on Monday released the Senate’s long-awaited version of President Trump’s tax agenda, which would make the 2017 corporate tax cuts permanent, cut hundreds of billions of dollars in Medicaid spending and phase out renewable-energy tax cuts enacted under President Biden.
The legislative text crafted by Senate Finance Committee Republicans represents the core of Trump’s "big, beautiful bill" and includes the populist tax brea...