The Republican budget bill cuts food assistance benefits to households that pay for internet access.
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Trump’s Ultimate Cure for an Unpopular Budget Bill
Today on TAP: Republicans are worried that voters will punish them in 2026. What if voters can’t?
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Families Steel for Fight After GOP Health Care Cuts
The parents of medically complex children said that despair is not an option after Republicans passed deep cuts to home care.
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Ten Bizarre Things Hidden in Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill
With the president asleep at the switch, all kinds of nutty provisions got snuck into the bill.
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Republicans Are Cutting Medicare. Not Only Medicaid, Medicare.
Passage of the Big Beautiful Bill will force mandatory sequestration that will mean half a trillion dollars in Medicare cuts.
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New Byrd Violations Threaten Trump’s Beautiful Bill
The parliamentarian kicked out a key Medicaid provision, part of a $587 billion rollback in spending cuts. Republicans don’t have good options to deal with that.
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Republicans Propose Fixing 1.5 Percent of Their Rural Hospital Problem
An insulting offer for a rural hospital fund is panned by Senate Republican holdouts. But the leadership is betting they’ll give in soon enough.
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The Parliamentarian Comes for the Beautiful Bill
A couple dozen provisions have been removed. No ruling yet on the biggest one, which could mean $3.7 trillion in fake ‘savings.’
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Will the Senate Save NIH?
Rescuing biomedical research is every bit as important as saving Medicaid.
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The Word Games That Enable Medicaid Cuts
We don’t call it Medicaid in many states, and we use euphemisms for what are in reality cuts. That endangers the system, a health care regulator writes.
