GOP, Trump and Medicaid
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Senate Republicans have unveiled a sweeping plan to overhaul the Medicaid program, with changes policy analysts warn could lead to even greater coverage losses and pain for hospital systems than the aggressive proposal passed by the House of Representatives last month.
Republicans must overcome intraparty divides to get legislation to Trump’s desk by July 4 target.
Senate Republicans revealed their proposed changes to President Trump's budget bill, which included steeper Medicaid cuts and permanently extending the cap of the State and Local Tax deduction, also known as SALT,
The proposal would salvage some clean-energy tax credits and phase out others more slowly, making up some of the cost by imposing deeper cuts to Medicaid than the House-passed bill would.