12 House Republicans Oppose Possible Medicaid Cuts in Reconciliation Bill

Feds plan to end state health program partnership

BOSTON (SHNS) - While policymakers wait for Washington to make crucial Medicaid funding decisions, the Trump administration has already signaled it will allow another Medicaid-related state funding stream -- one that supports an array of programs in Massachusetts -- to expire without extension. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services informed state Medicaid directors on April 10 that it does not intend to extend existing requests, or appr…

States that enshrined Medicaid expansion in their constitutions could be in a bind

A patient receives a shot at a clinic in Springfield, Mo. Missourians voted in August 2020 to amend the state constitution to expand Medicaid to adults below the age of 65 at or below 138% of the federal poverty line. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images) As Republicans in Congress consider cutting the federal share of Medicaid funding, states are weighing numerous options to scale back their programs. But voters in three states have significantly limite…

Trump's budget is a betrayal of his promise to working-class Americans

"Donald Trump and extreme MAGA Republicans are doing everything they can to tank our economy, drive us toward a recession and gut the health care of the American people by visiting upon them the largest Medicaid cut in history, along…

Cracks in MAGA? A dozen GOP Reps worried about re-election beg Speaker Johnson not to cut Medicaid

Politics and re-election. Republican incumbents have a poor record of doing the right thing simply because it is the right thing to do. Occasionally, GOP Representatives will do the right thing because it benefits them. And by benefit, I mean it...

Thune touches on Medicaid, town halls and tariffs during Watertown Rotary Club visit

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., speaks to Watertown Rotary members on April 17, 2025 at the Elks Lodge. (Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight)The scene outside Thursday’s Watertown Rotary luncheon turned raucous in the presence of South Dakota’s senior U.S. senator. Not long after the event, staffers urged Republican U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune into a black sedan as protesters outside Watertown’s Elks Lodge yelled “do yo…

Is Medicaid on or off the DOGE chopping block?

HAMPTON, Va. (WAVY) — In the historic Phoebus section of Hampton, there's apprehension the 1960s era Medicaid program is on the DOGE chopping block. Could tariffs and cuts to healthcare collide? "The cuts to Medicaid are going to have a disastrous effect on veterans," said James Glenn, a member of the American Federation of Government Employees, which represents thousands of the nation's federal workers. He expressed concern that many DOGE…