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The bill includes more than $140 billion in spending on the Trump administration's plan to crack down on illegal immigration. That includes $50 billion for completing the wall on the southern border, $45 billion for detention centers, $8 billion to hire more immigration officers, and $14 billion for deportations.
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Explícame on MSNChanges to Medicaid: Is your coverage at risk due to new rules or proposals?House GOP plans big Medicaid cuts to fund tax cuts, risking coverage for millions. Find out how this could affect your healthcare.
House Republicans on the Energy and Commerce Committee this week unveiled a plan to cut more than $880 billion to pay for a significant portion of President Trump’s domestic agenda. After
WASHINGTON – House Republicans defended a bill that would enact sweeping tax cuts, raise the debt ceiling, and add restrictions to benefit programs during a heated marathon day of committee hearings on Capitol Hill.
Republican lawmakers are calling for work requirements, stricter eligibility verification and some co-pays.
The Congressional Budget Office estimates the cuts will lead to 8.6 million people losing coverage over the next decade.
While healthcare experts in Massachusetts say Medicaid fraud does exist, they add that doing more to identify such waste is unlikely to achieve big savings.
A House committee releases its plan to reduce the deficit by $880 billion to pay for President Donald Trump’s legislative priorities.
The House Energy & Commerce Committee has released a hotly anticipated budget reconciliation bill that aims to thread the needle between policymakers who want to see Medicaid funding slashed and those who view steep cuts as a political flashpoint.
As Congressional committee hearings begin in Washington, New Jersey officials predict 700,000 could lose health care.
House Republicans have been talking for months about potentially slashing Medicaid, but this week they unveiled, for the first time, language of a bill outlining exactly how they plan to do that.