KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Trump’s Bill Reaches the Finish Line
UNITED STATES, JUL 3 – The bill cuts Medicaid and SNAP funding, risking coverage loss for 17 million Americans while providing $117 billion in tax cuts to the wealthiest, according to nonpartisan estimates.
- Driven by Trump’s agenda, GOP leaders pursue cuts that favor wealthy Americans and rollback social programs, shaping a darker future for the country.
- Following passage, the bill moves to President Donald Trump’s desk with two Republican dissidents, Brian Fitzpatrick and Thomas Massie, opposing it.
- Political analysts warn that House Republicans will face accountability in the 2026 elections as their budget bill, which allows ICE to hire more agents than the FBI, moves toward final approval.
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'Colossal mistake': Sen Mark Kelly doesn't hold back with attack on GOP
Congressional Democrats have wasted no time in going after Republicans who voted for the federal tax and spending bill that will cut health insurance and food benefits for the impoverished and disabled to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy.Arizona U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly did just that during a Friday morning press conference at the IBEW Local 640 electrician’s union building in Phoenix, where he slammed Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell for saying that…
KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Trump’s bill reaches the finish line
Early Thursday afternoon, the House approved a budget reconciliation bill that not only would make permanent many of President Donald Trump's 2017 tax cuts, but also impose deep cuts to Medicaid, the Affordable Care Act, and, indirectly, Medicare.
Trump’s bill has generated strong criticism for deep cuts in key areas such as public health and social programs
Second Harvest braces for SNAP cuts under Trump's 'big, beautiful bill'
Second Harvest Heartland, a Brooklyn Park-based food bank that ranks among the largest in the country, is bracing for an increase in food shelf visits after President Donald Trump’s domestic policy bill narrowly passed the House and Senate. The sweeping…
Republicans pass Trump’s billionaire budget, workers respond: ‘Your vote is killing us’
WASHINGTON—In the final hours before July 4, labor unions pulled out all the stops in a last-ditch effort to block President Donald Trump’s Project 2025-inspired billionaire budget from becoming law, and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., staged a marathon 8hr. 44 min. floor speech to delay the vote on the measure. But in the end, Republicans rammed the class warfare bill through the House and sent it to Trump’s desk for a signature…
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