Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) is looking for a reset and to build momentum on President Trump's big, beautiful bill after it struggled through a tough week on Capitol Hill.
Trump's July 4 deadline for signing the bill is slipping away as GOP senators battle each other over spending cuts and other issues in the House-passed bill. But Thune wants to get the legislation back on track by convening small working groups to hash out key components of the bill, accordi...
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What’s a Medicaid cut? Senate GOP tiptoes around $800B question
When is a Medicaid cut not actually a cut?
That's the $800 billion question facing Senate Republicans as they write their own version of the sweeping House-passed tax and spending bill.
Administration officials and senators defending against attacks on the bill have coalesced around a message that there will be no cuts to benefits, and the only people who will lose coverage are the ones who never deserved it to begin with: namely immigrants without l...
Look to Wisconsin for Medicaid reform
Medicaid was created to help people living in poverty have access to health care. Under ObamaCare, it was expanded to include able-bodied, working-age adults without children. That was wrong.
When I was governor of Wisconsin, we opted not to take the expansion. First, we could create our own plan for covering everyone living in poverty. We did — and it worked.
My predecessor had raised the income requirements for Medicaid, but did not fund the gap. That left many imp...
Trump’s big bill also seeks to undo the big bills of Biden and Obama
Chiseling away at President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act
Trump never promised mass federal layoffs, and they won’t fulfill his agenda, either
Leading up to the November election, the one issue voters cared about most was the cost of living. For Republican voters, immigration was a close second.
Concerns about government inefficiency did not even make the list. Months into the new administration, however, one of its top priorities is improving government efficiency, and its basic approach is to reduce the size of government through mass layoffs. The assumption seems to be that the government can operate just as effic...
Problems proliferate in Senate for Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’
Problems are multiplying for Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) and other Senate negotiators in their bid to pass legislation to enact President Trump’s agenda by July 4.
Some Republican senators are barraging leadership with concerns about spending cuts for Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), while budget hawks are demanding more deficit reduction and railing against a House compromise to lift the cap on state and local tax (SALT...
A veil of secrecy is hiding Trump’s White House visitors
After President Trump announced sweeping global tariffs on Apr. 2, businesses scrambled to learn how the policies would impact them and lobbied for exceptions for their products. Nearly one month later, many have struggled to get answers and remain concerned about the tariffs’ potential effects.
However, at least a few businesses have communicated directly with the president himself. On Apr. 21, representatives from Home Depot, Target, Walmart and other major retailers met wi...
Dr. Oz on Medicaid cuts: People should ‘prove that they matter’
Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Mehmet Oz defended President Trump's "big, beautiful bill" over criticism that millions of people could lose health coverage, saying those who would face new work requirements should "prove that they matter."
Oz made the comments during an interview on Fox Business on Wednesday, arguing that when Medicaid was created in the 1960s lawmakers did not include work requirements because it "never dawned on anybody that...
Millions Would Lose Their Obamacare Coverage Under Trump’s Bill
Though Republicans are not explicitly trying to repeal the Affordable Care Act, a series of small, technical changes would substantially reduce enrollment and increase the cost of coverage.
Trump tax bill would add $2.4 trillion to deficits: CBO
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