The bill includes more than $140 billion in spending on the Trump administration's plan to crack down on illegal immigration. That includes $50 billion for completing the wall on the southern border, $45 billion for detention centers, $8 billion to hire more immigration officers, and $14 billion for deportations.

About half of states have broadened Medicaid, the state-federal low-income health care program, to pay for social services such as housing and nutritional support.

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) said on Monday that Republicans are eyeing early 2027 as the target date for the new Medicaid work requirements in the large budget package intended to

The Trump administration's legislative proposal aims to extend tax cuts while reducing healthcare and food assistance spending.

Millions of Americans are at risk of losing access to Medicaid under the proposed legislation, which passed the House Energy and Commerce Committee (HECC). Representative Brett Guthrie, a Kentucky Republican and chair of the HECC, insisted that the changes will "strengthen and sustain" Medicaid for the future, calling them "common sense."

House Republican leaders are still trying to resolve major internal battles over President Donald Trump’s massive domestic policy bill even as Speaker Mike Johnson is engaged in last-ditch negotiations to win over GOP members’ conflicting demands before an expected floor vote later this week.

The U.S. Congress should enact steeper work requirements for Medicaid and food aid in a tax cut and spending plan being advanced by Republicans, four senior Trump administration officials said in a New York Times opinion column.

President Donald Trump has repeatedly vowed he wouldn't allow Medicaid to be cut, but House Republicans' bill to fund his agenda aims to cut hundreds of billions of dollars from the program that provides health care for poor, elderly and disabled Americans.

California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom said the "Trump Slump" is partially to blame for him proposing a freeze on Medicaid enrollment for illegal immigrants in his state.

The White House is pushing back on concerns that President Donald Trump‘s “one big, beautiful” tax-and-spending bill will make unpopular cuts to Medicaid. “The president wants to preserve and protect Medicaid for Americans who this program was intended for,