In a surprising turn, President Trump has publicly opposed broad cuts to Medicaid, despite ongoing fiscal negotiations in ...

Trump’s budget will actively harm the health and incomes of rural communities and Republican voters, well beyond those who ...

Republicans are backing away from broad proposals to slash federal funding to Medicaid ... loath to cut a program that covers a substantial slice of their constituents and risk a political backlas ...

In a surprising turn, Republican Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri has voiced strong opposition to proposed Medicaid cuts in the GOP's tax and spending bill. Hawley's stance highlights a growing divide ...

They fear the focus on historic coverage cuts is bogging down efforts to sell the ... “He doesn’t want any political ads saying Republicans are cutting Medicaid benefits,” said Stephen Moore, an ...

there’s increasing internal anxiety about the potential for political backlash, including from some of Trump’s base, if the final “big, beautiful” bill includes cuts to Medicaid benefits ...

which has jurisdiction over Medicaid, to slash spending by $880 billion over the next decade to help pay for a large tax cut. That number is impossible to reach without substantially reducing the ...

But drawing attention to the consequences of Medicaid cuts could still offer political benefits, Levitt said. “There's an element of political messaging, of wanting to express support for ...

DOGE says it wants to cut $1 trillion in federal spending this year. But downsizing federal Medicaid spending could be a dilemma for state budget writers and a political landmine for statewide ...

Jessie Hellmann and David Lerman outline the major changes to Medicaid that Republicans have proposed, the major cuts they omitted and whether the package will have enough political support to ...

100. WASHINGTON — Hospitals, health centers, and patient advocates this week plan to escalate their pressure on federal lawmakers to oppose cuts to the Medicaid program. The groups are ...

SAGINAW CO., Mich. (WNEM) - The threat in Washington to potentially cut hundreds of billions of dollars from Medicaid is stoking grassroots political activism. Opponents sounded the alarm during a ...