McClain’s unusual voter rebuke served as Republicans’ opening act on what House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) billed as a momentous day. Johnson scheduled a vote on a sweeping budget plan that would finance $4.5 trillion worth of tax cuts in part through $1.5 trillion in spending cuts.
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are concerned about potential cuts to Medicaid if House Speaker Mike Johnson's budget proposal is passed. CBS News' Caitlin Huey-Burns reports.
Trump campaign pollster Tony Fabrizio recently found that many of Trump's own fans are concerned about their financial situations.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is warning that House Speaker Mike Johnson's budget proposal would lead to Medicaid cuts. CBS News' Tauran Small reports.
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The Senate plan, passed last week, does not include Medicaid cuts. The Senate budget resolution omits tax policy but sets the spending agenda to enact Trump’s border, defense and energy policies, punting negotiations on tax policy to a later date and breaking up the spending plan into two separate measures.
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House Speaker Mike Johnson asked supporters to pray for a budget proposal that would slash social welfare spending
House Democrats are ramping up their attacks on the GOP’s budget plan, warning that the massive spending blueprint would translate into the steepest Medicaid cut in the program’s history. Behind
The House could vote Tuesday on a budget resolution that would lay the framework for President Donald Trump's agenda, extending Trump's 2017 tax cuts and boosting defense spending in exchange for trillions in spending curbs—but GOP divisions could imperil the bill, which marks the first major test of the new Congress.
House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries said on X: "Heading back to DC to oppose the Republican budget scheme that will slash and burn Medicaid benefits. There are 215 Democrats in the House. We only need three Republicans to do the right thing and Medicaid will be saved."
The House speaker is set to put a budget resolution up for a floor vote on Tuesday but is facing a potential revolt from swing-district Republicans.
House Republicans remain divided over the budget blueprint to jumpstart the process to advance Trump's agenda, putting a vote planned for Tuesday evening in jeopardy.
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President Donald Trump jumped in Tuesday to help House Speaker Mike Johnson try to muscle a GOP budget blueprint to passage, a step toward delivering his “big, beautiful bill” with $4.5 trillion in tax breaks and $2 trillion in spending cuts over stiff opposition from Democrats — and even some Republicans.
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