Medicaid, Trump and Johnson
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One Republican said there’s enough resistance in the Senate to halt Trump's "Big, Beautiful Bill" unless there are significant changes.
President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” passed the House on Thursday after lawmakers wrestled with the legislation during an all-night session. The GOP spending bill now rests before a weary upper chamber as Medicaid reforms and deficit expansion remain concerns for Senate Republicans.
In Washington, Congressional Republicans, including all from Texas, passed what President Trump has called the "big, beautiful bill." It makes permanent the tax cuts approved during the President's first term.
Sen. Ron Johnson said he thinks there are “enough” Republicans to “stop the process” on the GOP's domestic package in order to prioritize spending reductions.
Two conservative GOP senators on Sunday said the “big, beautiful bill” passed at President Trump’s behest by House Republicans needs to be cut down to size, signaling huge challenges in enacting Trump’s plans in the Senate.
The bill, which Republicans will be working to pass over the next several weeks, is the centerpiece of Trump's legislative agenda.
Republicans’ mammoth budget reconciliation bill includes major changes to Medicaid, food stamps, student loans and more. It also permanently extends President Donald Trump’s 2017 tax cuts – at a cost of at least $3.
The House GOP’s “big, beautiful bill” will add so much money to the debt it will force across-the-board spending cuts to Medicare, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office
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Others, including Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), have voiced similar concerns about the bill’s steep cost, worrying that it is “mortgaging our children's future.”