Representatives Double Down on Medicaid Cuts

Federal uncertainty complicates Pa. budget haggling over transit, education

HARRISBURG — Competing priorities and possible federal cuts to Medicaid are complicating negotiations as top Pennsylvania lawmakers attempt to hammer out a budget deal by the June 30 deadline.

Federal budget deal would create healthcare funding headache for Pa.

Republicans have pitched the deal as a way to cut down on abuse and waste in Medicaid and other public benefits systems. But the legislation goes far beyond this, according to state regulators, hospitals, and healthcare economists.

School and Medicaid funding worries linger post-session for WA lawmakers

House Majority Leader Joe Fitzgibbon, D-West Seattle, on TVW's Inside Olympia. (Photo courtesy of TVW)This article was first published by TVW. The ink is hardly dry on Washington’s new budget and already legislative leaders are anticipating more fiscal uncertainty.  Democrats are focused on threats to health care access if Congress slashes Medicaid funding, while Republicans are warning of renewed legal jeopardy in education funding. In post-ses…

Johnson: We’ll pay for Graham’s support of gutting Medicaid - Charleston City Paper

Exclusive |  The U.S. Senate is poised to take up the reconciliation bill -- also known as the “Big Beautiful Bill” in the coming weeks. Our senator, Lindsey Graham, has indicated his enthusiastic support for it, tweeting that the sooner the bill gets signed into law, the better. The post Johnson: We’ll pay for Graham’s support of gutting Medicaid appeared first on Charleston City Paper.

Representatives double down on Medicaid cuts

A week after U.S. House Republicans passed President Donald Trump's budget priorities, members of Iowa's congressional delegation are doubling down on their support for it, including reductions to Medicaid spending.

Liberal Group Targets 11 House Republicans Over Medicaid Provisions in GOP Bill

Fallout from the House Republicans’ budget reconciliation bill continues as a liberal advocacy group, Protect Our Care, is spending big on political ads against 11 GOP lawmakers in battleground districts. The digital ads are a key component of the liberal group’s $10 million “Hands Off Medicaid” campaign that claims the targeted Republicans helped deliver “the biggest cut to Medicaid in history.” The 11 Republican members of Congress targeted by…