Senate version of Trump agenda cuts more from Medicaid
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The Senate Finance Committee on Monday released its version of the GOP’s package that calls for enacting sweeping cuts to Medicaid and preventing a multi-trillion dollar tax hike on Americans.
The proposal would salvage some clean-energy tax credits and phase out others more slowly, making up some of the cost by imposing deeper cuts to Medicaid than the House-passed bill would.
Senate Republicans are proposing deeper Medicaid cuts, including new work requirements for parents of teens, as a way to offset the costs of making President Donald Trump’s tax breaks more permanent.
Congressional Republicans are in lockstep on new Medicaid work requirements not only because they help generate savings for Donald Trump's spending package but also because some of them say there is a moral imperative behind the proposed rules.
The House-passed version of the bill would extend Trump's 2017 income tax cuts and implement new temporary tax breaks for tips and overtime. It would create new federally-seeded savings account for children and give seniors an additional tax credit. It would pour billions of dollars into the administration's deportation plans and on defense.
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Medicaid expansion was a recognition that low-income Americans of all ages need, and deserve, health insurance, and that such a step is essential to a properly functioning health care system. Forcing states to knock down the very health equity foundation they have built would truly be a “shift in kind.
Republican Sen. Josh Hawley has been clear about his red line as the Senate takes up the One Big Beautiful Bill Act: no Medicaid cuts. But what, exactly, would be a cut?