Trump, Tax Cut and Big Beautiful Bill
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Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act created federal work requirements for Medicaid recipients, which amount to 80 hours a month in community engagement activities to maintain eligibility.
One health policy professor said cutting Medicaid and similar programs "will be devastating" to millions of Americans.
President Donald Trump signed the “Big, Beautiful Bill” into law Friday, triggering a countdown to cuts that will impact many Maryland residents in the coming years. Republicans passed the legislation Thursday after Congress pulled two all-nighters to meet Trump’s self-imposed July 4 deadline.
We see this budget for what it is, an extremist road map that takes away what people rely on to survive,” U.S. Rep. Maxwell Frost said at a news conference at the Pan American Behavioral Health
Medicaid is the state's largest health insurer, covering a quarter of Michigan residents. Reform supporters say the changes will eliminate loopholes.
Florida did not expand Medicaid as most states did, so the impact may be lesser than other places, but reductions loom.
Minnesota state officials warned the bill would cut $500 million a year in reimbursements for hospital and nursing home coverage.
Ohio will get a boost in Medicaid funding, but patients could still lose care or face barriers under a new federal law.
Column: Requiring work for Medicaid recipients — a provision that killed an effort in 2024 to expand Medicaid in Mississippi — is now law of the land under Trump's so-called "Big Beautiful Bill." Expanding Medicaid could still save lives.
This act passed in a 218-214 vote mostly along party lines. U.S. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pennsylvania, and U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Kentucky, were the only two Republicans to vote against the bill.
How a handful of Republicans learned to stop worrying and love the ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ after switching their votes - Republicans who thought the spending cuts were insufficient or that the bill cut too much into Medicaid suddenly seem at ease with their vote,