To Cut Medicaid, the GOP’s Following a Path Often Used to Expand Health Care
- On July 2, 2025, Congress passed President Donald Trump's 'One Big Beautiful' budget reconciliation bill, making sweeping changes to Medicaid and Affordable Care Act plans.
- The bill proposes cutting over $1 trillion from Medicaid and related safety net programs to finance a $4 trillion indefinite extension of Trump's 2017 tax cuts.
- Medicaid cuts include boosting work requirements and reducing provider taxes, which Virginia officials say would jeopardize coverage and hospital stability.
- John Connelly stated that these cuts cause worsened health outcomes and rising costs, while Alicia Schaupp said losing Medicaid assistance would be devastating for her daughter's treatment.
- The bill's passage continues a long history of major health laws using budget reconciliation, but it raises concern among Democrats and some Republicans over impacts on vulnerable populations.
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Dems railing against Trump budget bill’s Medicaid reforms have backed work requirements themselves
One of the chief grievances that congressional Democrats have had against the One Big Beautiful Bill Act is the new work requirements that it imposes on Medicaid and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).


Employers are failing to insure the working class – Medicaid cuts would leave them even more vulnerable
The Congressional Budget Office estimates that 7.8 million Americans across the U.S. would lose their coverage through Medicaid – the public program that provides health insurance to low-income families and individuals – under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act making its way through Congress. That includes 248,000 to 414,000 of my fellow residents of Michigan based on the House Reconciliation Bill in early June 2025. There are similarly deep projec…
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