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 ...
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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...
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...
Hardline House conservatives swing for fences in asks to Senate GOP on megabill
Hardline conservatives in the House are making a broad swath of recommendations to make the “One Big Beautiful Bill” of President Trump’s tax cut and spending priorities even more conservative.
A 10-page memo labeled to Senate Republicans from “House Conservatives” — with input from members of the House Freedom Caucus while not being officially from the group — and shared with The Hill shows the hardliners swinging for the fences with numerous suggestions to change the mega...
Republicans look for reset on Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’
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...
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...
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...
CBO: Nearly 11 million people will be uninsured if GOP megabill becomes law
Nearly 11 million people would lose health insurance under the House Republican tax bill, mostly due to cuts to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act (ACA), according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO).
The CBO's latest report estimates that 10.9 million people would be uninsured over the next decade if the spending package, which includes much of President Trump's legislative agenda, were enacted.
That total includes an estimated 1.4 million ...
Republicans seek ObamaCare rollback in Trump’s megabill
Republicans are seeking a major rollback of ObamaCare coverage under the House-passed megabill that would result in millions of people losing insurance coverage to help pay for President Trump's tax cut extension.
The changes, which echo some of the debate surrounding the 2017 effort to repeal the health care law, have largely flown under the radar amid the heated debate over the bill's billions of dollars in Medicaid cuts.
Democrats want to change th...