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Moves to narrow eligibility for Medicaid now moving through Congress could leave tens of thousands of West Virginians without medical coverage.Supporters of the
Capitol police took 26 people into custody for illegally demonstrating outside the budget hearing on charges of crowding, obstructing and incommoding.
More than 100,000 Coloradans could lose their health insurance if Congress passes newly proposed cuts to Medicaid, according to preliminary estimates.
Three committees advanced legislation that would combine into the “big beautiful bill” to enact President Trump’s agenda. But the package faces a rocky path.
Hope is one of roughly 3 million Texas children who get health insurance from federal and Texas taxpayers through Medicaid. It's a program Congress is aiming to dial back to help pay for between $4 trillion and $5 trillion in tax cuts. Republicans and the Trump administration hope the tax cut package will supercharge economic growth.
The Congressional Budget Office estimated that Medicaid cuts would result in 7.6 million Americans losing coverage within 10 years.
Texas Democrats have criticized Republican proposals to overhaul Medicaid, saying they would cause millions of Americans to lose benefits but GOP
The health cuts would save $715 billion but leave 8.6 million more people without coverage nationwide, the Congressional Budget Office said. How would it affect NC?
Speaker Mike Johnson is trying to strike a delicate balance between blue-state Republicans and conservative hard-liners on a sprawling bill for Trump's agenda.