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1 week ago | 
pressdemocrat.com | Catie Edmondson |Margot Sanger-Katz |Tony Romm |Brad Plumer
WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans on Monday released legislation that would cut Medicaid far more aggressively than would the House-passed bill to deliver President Donald Trump’s domestic agenda, while also salvaging or slowing the elimination of some clean-energy tax credits, setting up a fight over their party’s marquee policy package.
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1 week ago | 
nytimes.com | Sarah Kliff |Margot Sanger-Katz
The Senate policy bill released Monday would cut billions of dollars more from Medicaid than the earlier, House-passed legislation — in large part by cracking down on a budgeting maneuver used by 49 states that congressional Republicans have called a scam or gimmick. It does this by limiting Medicaid provider taxes, a loophole that states use to collect more federal matching funds for Medicaid, an insurance program for the poor that covers roughly 70 million Americans.
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1 week ago | 
nytimes.com | Catie Edmondson |Margot Sanger-Katz |Tony Romm |Brad Plumer
Senate Republicans on Monday released legislation that would cut Medicaid far more aggressively than would the House-passed bill to deliver President Trump’s domestic agenda, while also salvaging or slowing the elimination of some clean-energy tax credits, setting up a fight over their party’s marquee policy package.
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2 weeks ago | 
news.nestia.com | Emily Badger |Alicia Parlapiano |Margot Sanger-Katz
Trump’s Big Bill Would Be More Regressive Than Any Major Law in Decades Share full article By Emily Badger , Alicia Parlapiano and Margot Sanger-Katz The authors reviewed distributional analyses from bills over the last 35 years. June 12, 2025 Share full article The Republican megabill now before the Senate cuts taxes for high earners and reduces benefits for the poor. If it’s enacted, that combination would make it more regressive than any major tax or entitlement law in decades.
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3 weeks ago | 
nytimes.com | Sarah Kliff |Margot Sanger-Katz
President Trump's domestic policy bill would make deep cuts to Obamacare that are expected to leave millions uninsured. The changes would make it harder to enroll in coverage and, for many, make plans more expensive. Republicans say these changes are needed to combat fraud and ensure government dollars go only to those who are eligible.
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3 weeks ago | 
nytimes.com | Sarah Kliff |Margot Sanger-Katz
Though Republicans are not explicitly trying to repeal the Affordable Care Act, a series of small, technical changes would substantially reduce enrollment and increase the cost of coverage. Millions of Obamacare enrollees would lose health coverage under the Republicans' major policy bill, which would make coverage more expensive and harder to obtain.
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1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | Alicia Parlapiano |Josh Katz |Margot Sanger-Katz |Emily Badger
The tax and spending bill passed by House Republicans early Thursday includes hundreds of provisions and would add an estimated $3.3 trillion to the national debt as written. Below is a table that lists the 10-year cost or savings for nearly every provision, as estimated by the Congressional Budget Office. The C.B.O. evaluation does not include several last-minute changes to the bill made by House Republicans to secure the support of some holdout members. We've highlighted the substantive changes.
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1 month ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Margot Sanger-Katz |Sarah Kliff
Among the spending cuts proposed in House Republicans’ “big, beautiful bill” is a policy they have sought to enact for a decade: a requirement that Medicaid recipients provide proof of employment as a condition of receiving health insurance. Republicans have repeatedly tried and failed to enact such rules. They proposed laws that didn’t pass and attempted state-level experiments that were blocked in court.
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1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | Margot Sanger-Katz |Sarah Kliff
A new hurdle for poor Americans, approved by the House, would cause millions to lose coverage, including many who are working but can't meet reporting rules. Among the spending cuts proposed in House Republicans' "big, beautiful bill" is a policy they have sought to enact for a decade: a requirement that Medicaid recipients provide proof of employment as a condition of receiving health insurance. Republicans have repeatedly tried and failed to enact such rules.
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1 month ago | 
seattletimes.com | Margot Sanger-Katz |Alicia Parlapiano
The United States hit its record debt level at the end of 1945, after a world war and the Great Depression. That record, in which the debt was briefly larger than the size of the entire economy, is almost certain to be broken in the next several years. Estimates from the Congressional Budget Office published in January showed that the country was on track to overtake it in 2032 — and that was before the Republicans’ large tax and spending bill was taken into account.
