
This week the House is voting on Trump's billionaire and corporate tax cut, and they've decided to pay for it by gutting Medicaid - the program that insures 24% of all Americans.
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This week the House is voting on Trump's billionaire and corporate tax cut, and they've decided to pay for it by gutting Medicaid - the program that insures 24% of all Americans.

I want to make sure we get to a point where we protect the most vulnerable covered right now, specifically in Medicaid.

There’s a little bit of frustration among those of us who do have large Medicaid populations that we have not been engaged [by leadership] as much as some of the members of the Freedom Caucus in this process.

They’re cutting your Medicaid. Why? Why would they do that? Tax breaks for the rich.

I take Secretary Collins at his word when he says there is no impact to the delivery of care, benefits, and services for veterans with this plan.

That would mean: cancer researchers laid off, lifesaving clinical trials cancelled, and more.

We are being reassured that no one at the VA who has any direct care responsibilities are being terminated or laid off.

Trump’s 'toothless' executive order does nothing to expand access to IVF.

neither Medicaid nor Medicare is going to be touched in the Republican budget.

There’s over 70 million Americans who get Medicaid … [including] seniors in long-term care, over 30 million children, Americans with disabilities.

If they cut even $1 from Medicaid, no one whose income is above $1 million can get any tax reduction.

To put it simply, we cannot afford to undervalue the essential contributions our nurses make at this pivotal moment.

I expect an effort to keep the Medicaid cuts hidden behind the curtain, but they're going to come sooner or later.

Donald Trump fired the people who make sure you and your parents get the healthcare you need.