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.

Yet the most perilous moments for Johnson’s fraught push to pass Trump’s everything-and-the-kitchen-sink bill may well lie ahead.  A weekend of negotiations reportedly led the four Republicans,

It’s not at all clear the package, with its sweeping tax breaks and cuts to Medicaid, food stamps and green energy programs, has the support needed.

Experts say enrolling in and maintaining Medicaid would become more difficult under Trump’s tax cuts plan, which House Speaker Mike Johnson said he would like the full House to consider

Millions of Americans are at risk of losing access to Medicaid under the proposed legislation, which passed the House Energy and Commerce Committee (HECC). Representative Brett Guthrie, a Kentucky Republican and chair of the HECC, insisted that the changes will "strengthen and sustain" Medicaid for the future, calling them "common sense."

While proposed changes to Medicaid have gotten a lot of attention, the Republican budget bill in Congress would also make other big changes, including changes to your taxes.

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.

Congress has proposed a spending bill that would affect Maryland residents. But divisions among Republican lawmakers over Medicaid changes have the bill’s fate up in the air.