President Donald Trump's fellow Republicans in the U.S. Congress are weighing steep cuts to the Medicaid health program as part of a wide-ranging budget package that also would cut taxes and raise spending on defense and border security.

A key House committee is pushing forward with trying to advance its portion of President Trump’s legislative agenda next week, even as Republicans disagree over how deeply to cut Medicaid. The

Top Republicans are considering rolling back a major piece of the Affordable Care Act in their massive bill for President Donald Trump's agenda, exploring savings by slashing how much money the federal government spends to cover the 2010 law's expansion of Medicaid.