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Major changes could be coming to Arizona’s health care funding after House Republicans approved President Donald Trump’s legislative package, officially titled the “One, Big, Beautiful Bill."
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After weeks of intraparty fighting, House Republicans passed the reconciliation package that addresses President Donald Trump’s fiscal agenda in a largely party line 215-214 vote early Thursday morning. Reps. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Warren Davidson (R-OH) voted against the bill, joining all Democrats in opposing the package.
It would impose work requirements for low-income adults to receive Medicaid health insurance and increase them for food assistance as well as cut funding for services like birth control to the nation’s biggest abortion provider. Supporters of the bill say the moves will save money, root out waste and encourage personal responsibility.
The bill is part of a broader effort to curb waste and fraud in the program, which provides health coverage to more than 1.8 million low-income Louisianans.
Republicans in the U.S. House of Delegates advanced a mega bundle of bills designed to shave billions from the federal budget, which Democrats and advocates have said will take resources from the nation’s most vulnerable citizens and hinder social safety nets.
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House Republicans are jubilant about muscling through President Donald Trump's "big, beautiful" tax and immigration package by a single vote.
A new non-partisan report reveals that President Trump's recently passed bill could result in 3.2 million people losing their SNAP benefits and 8 million people losing health coverage through Medicaid over the next decade.
Congressman Ryan Mackenzie joined the vast majority of House Republicans in voting in favor of President Trump’s multitrillion-dollar tax breaks package early Thursday morning, which now