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House Republicans moved forward on President Donald Trump's sweeping immigration, energy, and tax cut plan.
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The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday voted to pass a budget blueprint setting the stage for legislation later this year that could make expiring portions of President Donald Trump's 2017 tax...
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House Speaker Mike Johnson, after having to pull a vote on Trump's budget blueprint, said he had "very productive" discussions with members last night.
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Jacobin on MSNTrump Gives Pentagon $1 Trillion as Medicaid Cuts LoomDonald Trump announced Monday that he will propose a $1 trillion military budget as part of his 2026 federal spending request. “One trillion dollars . . . nobody’s seen anything like it,” Trump said.
Medicare or Medicaid benefits," the statement read. "President Trump himself has said it (over and over and over again).” The White House also claims Musk hasn’t vowed to cut program benefits and included the following quote from him: “The waste ...
The budget blueprint, which passed largely on party lines, sets the stage for a bill later in the year on Trump's tax cut plan.
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Irish Star on MSNTrump admin. cancels Biden's plan to make Ozempic available on Medicare and MedicaidThe Trump administration canceled a Biden-era plan on Friday that would have made Ozempic and other weight-loss drugs available on Medicare and Medicaid and expanded access to them for millions of Ame
After much arm-twisting and a negotiation with the Senate, House holdouts in the GOP came on board and approved the resolution.
Medicare Advantage plans will get a 5.06% rate increase, well above the 2.23% bump that the Biden administration proposed.
Administration officials reversed a decision made during the Biden presidency that would have given millions of people access to weight-loss drugs paid for Medicare and Medicaid.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been critical of the drugs, instead placing a focus on lifestyle changes.
So far, Oz has been tight-lipped on what he thinks about potential cuts to Medicaid, dodging questions during his hearings about the proposals.