US EditionKFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Trump’s Bill Reaches the Finish Line
- Driven by Trump’s agenda, GOP leaders pursue cuts that favor wealthy Americans and rollback social programs, shaping a darker future for the country.
- Following passage, the bill moves to President Donald Trump’s desk with two Republican dissidents, Brian Fitzpatrick and Thomas Massie, opposing it.
- Political analysts warn that House Republicans will face accountability in the 2026 elections as their budget bill, which allows ICE to hire more agents than the FBI, moves toward final approval.
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KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Trump’s bill reaches the finish line
Early Thursday afternoon, the House approved a budget reconciliation bill that not only would make permanent many of President Donald Trump's 2017 tax cuts, but also impose deep cuts to Medicaid, the Affordable Care Act, and, indirectly, Medicare.
Trump’s bill has generated strong criticism for deep cuts in key areas such as public health and social programs
House narrowly passes budget bill, stripping health and food safety nets
By Sunita Sohrabji On a 218-214 vote, with almost all members voting along party lines, the House passed the sweeping budget bill on July 3, in time to meet President Trump’s deadline. Trump was expected to sign the bill at 5 p.m. Eastern. The White House issued an emailed statement: “President Trump’s One Big, Beautiful Bill delivers on the commonsense agenda that nearly 80 million Americans voted for – the largest middle-class tax cut in hist…
Second Harvest braces for SNAP cuts under Trump's 'big, beautiful bill'
Second Harvest Heartland, a Brooklyn Park-based food bank that ranks among the largest in the country, is bracing for an increase in food shelf visits after President Donald Trump’s domestic policy bill narrowly passed the House and Senate. The sweeping…
Republicans pass Trump’s billionaire budget, workers respond: ‘Your vote is killing us’
WASHINGTON—In the final hours before July 4, labor unions pulled out all the stops in a last-ditch effort to block President Donald Trump’s Project 2025-inspired billionaire budget from becoming law, and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., staged a marathon 8hr. 44 min. floor speech to delay the vote on the measure. But in the end, Republicans rammed the class warfare bill through the House and sent it to Trump’s desk for a signature…
The text could increase the debt by more than $3,400 billion by 2034. The leader of the Democrats in the House of Representatives, Hakeem Jeffries, called it a "monstrosity" that "will cause suffering to the ordinary Americans." Two Republicans voted against.
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