Senate Republicans release Trump agenda bill text on Medicaid, Medicare and SALT:
The legislation keeps some House provisions, like new Medicaid rules ...
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Senate Unveils Trump Tax and Health Care BillThe 549-page bill extends tax cuts, tightens Medicaid rules by 2026, and caps SALT deductions at $10,000 per filer.
Key FactsJun 16, 2025 · Reading time: ~45 sec.
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- The Senate introduced a comprehensive bill extending Trump-era tax cuts and implementing new regulations for Medicaid and Medicare.
- Medicaid cuts in the proposal are harsher than the House version, imposing work requirements starting at the end of 2026 and stricter immigration status checks.
- A $10,000 federal cap on state and local tax deductions is included, lower than the House's $40,000 limit for certain filers.
- The legislation repeals clean energy subsidies favoring fossil fuels and aims for passage by early July.
The House Republican version of this bill was already a class war, but Senate Republicans decided to inflict even more devastation on the lives of working Americans to give even larger handouts to the top.— Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore., in a statement regarding the Senate Republicans' bill.
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Senate Republicans release Trump agenda bill text on Medicaid, Medicare and SALT: The legislation keeps some House provisions, like new Medicaid rules ...
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Senate version of Trump agenda bill cuts more from Medicaid: GOP aides: The Senate’s version of a bill to enact President Trump’s agenda goes further to reduce ...
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Senate Bill Would Make Deep Cuts to Medicaid, Setting Up Fight With House: The proposal would salvage some clean-energy tax credits and phase out others more ...
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Key FactsTillis Blasts Tax Bill’s Medicaid Cuts and Risks
Jun 30, 2025 · Reading time: ~45 sec.
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- Senator Thom Tillis announced his retirement and condemned the Big Beautiful Bill for breaking Trump’s Medicaid protection promise.
- The legislation proposes $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts to fund about $4 trillion in tax cuts benefiting wealthy households.
- Tillis highlighted that North Carolina would lose roughly $26 billion in Medicaid funding, causing over half a million people to lose healthcare coverage.
- He compared the political fallout to the 2010 Affordable Care Act and predicted widespread damage across Republican states.
It is inescapable that this bill, in its current form, will betray the very promise that Donald J. Trump made in the Oval Office.— Senator Thom Tillis discussing the impact of the bill on Medicaid and President Trump's promises.
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Top Republican Warns GOP Medicaid Cuts Are ‘Morally Wrong’: Sen. Josh Hawley wrote a scathing op-ed that called out Trump’s proposed attack on Medicaid.
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Key FactsHawley Critiques GOP Medicaid Cuts Rigorously
May 12, 2025 · Reading time: ~45 sec.
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- Senator Josh Hawley warns against his party's proposed Medicaid cuts, which could lead to millions losing health insurance.
- In an op-ed, Hawley stated that funding Trump's agenda through healthcare cuts is both morally wrong and politically suicidal.
- He emphasized that Republican voters support and depend on social insurance programs.
- Hawley's opposition signals potential challenges for the bill in the Senate, where several GOP senators show little interest in Medicaid changes.
If Republicans want to be a working-class party — if we want to be a majority party — we must ignore calls to cut Medicaid and start delivering on America’s promise for America’s working people.— Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) warns against cuts to Medicaid and emphasizes the need to support social insurance programs.
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