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- Brittney Walsh from Louisville, who has been in recovery for 20 months after struggling with addiction, is urging Congress to avoid Medicaid cuts, which she credits for aiding her recovery.
- This plea comes as House Republicans have proposed slashing $880 billion from federal spending over 10 years, potentially impacting Medicaid, though President Trump has stated Medicaid is not on the chopping block.
- Walsh, who now works in drug and alcohol treatment and has commercial insurance thanks to her recovery, emphasizes that Medicaid helped her get into recovery when she discovered she was pregnant, enabling her to become employable and help others.
- Walsh stated that if she was told in 2010 that she would become addicted to opioids she would not have believed it, while Brittany Morris, who helps connect people to treatment, said, "If it wasn’t for Medicaid … I probably wouldn’t be here."
- Proposed Medicaid cuts could disproportionately affect rural communities, where nearly one in four residents rely on Medicaid, potentially leading to disastrous consequences, including hospital closures and reduced access to care, despite Republicans claiming they will only target waste, fraud, and abuse.
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GOP lawmakers’ budget framework will raise debt limit, pass Trump border, energy and tax bill all before June
Congressional Republicans are moving forward with plans for a rejiggered budget resolution that will set different thresholds for federal spending cuts -- but aims to raise the nation's debt limit by trillions of dollars and pass President Trump's border, energy and tax priorities by Memorial Day.
Tea party’s champions agonize over spending cuts
The NewsYears before Donald Trump remodeled the GOP, the Tea Party took its turn transforming the party. And now, at a critical juncture for Trump’s agenda, its heirs in Congress are weighing just how far to push it.A handful of conservative senators are holding out -- for now, at least -- on supporting Republican leaders’ still-evolving budget, the next step to advance Trump’s tax cut plans. Those GOP senators are demanding deeper spending cuts…
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