GOP tax bill slashes safety net, throwing millions off health insurance (Editorial Board Opinion)

Tax cuts now, benefit cuts later: the timeline in the Republican megabill

The savings from the safety net cuts still are not enough to offset an expensive package of tax breaks that is projected to add more than $3 trillion to the...

The Senate bill and the social safety net

President Trump's sweeping budget bill just passed the Senate. It would cut trillions in taxes. It also would make the biggest cuts to the social safety net in decades – to things like food aid.

GOP tax bill slashes safety net, throwing millions off health insurance (Editorial Board Opinion)

As the Republican-led Congress rushes to pass President Donald Trump’s tax and domestic policy megabill by his self-imposed July 4 deadline, its impact on poor and working-class Americans should be front and center in the debate.

Davis says West Side safety-net hospitals at risk with Trump bill

Congressman Danny Davis (D-7th) spoke out against federal health care cuts and urged senators to reject such reductions on Monday, holding press conferences at five safety-net hospitals on Chicago’s West Side.  Davis renounced President Donald Trump’s Big Beautiful Tax Bill, as it’s being discussed in the United States Senate, saying its passing would affect resources and services at hospitals like Loretto Hospital and West Suburban Medical Cent…