A new DOGE-backed bill aims to tackle billions in improper payments affecting Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security.
Republicans have proposed lowering the federal share of costs for Medicaid expansions, which could reshape the program by gutting one of the Affordable Care Act’s major provisions.
Republican leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives have scheduled a vote Tuesday to move forward with their party’s budget blueprint.
Ahead of the scheduled vote today, critics of the budget have warned that should the budget get approved, it would result in the "gutting" of Medicaid.
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.
Speaker Johnson is working to win over holdouts on the budget proposal. However, possible Medicaid cuts are leaving some House Republicans uneasy. Former Rep. Carlos Curbelo and former Ohio Governor John Kasich join Chris Jansing to share their analysis of the budget.
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.
The state paid insurers at least $7.3 million, consisting of approximately $3.8 million in federal funds, for services for deceased Colorado residents.