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GOP Lawmaker Insists People Can 'Keep Their Medicaid' If They 'Just Get a Job'

As the GOP works to complete its "big, beautiful bill," Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) defended proposed work requirements for Medicaid recipients.

Latin Times

GOP Lawmaker Quickly Correcting Himself From 'Medicaid Cuts' to 'Medicaid Reforms' Draws Fire Online: 'Truth Slipped Out'

Rep. Jason Smith's on-air slip calling Medicaid "cuts" instead of "reforms" drew backlash, spotlighting growing tensions over proposed healthcare restrictions.

Latin Times

‘Oops’: A GOP slip of the tongue confirms ‘Medicaid cuts’ are coming soon, despite Trump’s denials

The cat's out of the bag on what's coming for Medicaid.

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Weekend do-over planned for 'big, beautiful' budget package - Roll Call

The House Budget Committee plans to try again Sunday night to advance the GOP reconciliation package after four Republican dissenters torpedoed the measure at a markup Friday.

Roll Call

‘Absurd’: Republicans challenge Johnson to overhaul Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’ as it remains on knife edge

Conservative Republicans want to see Medicaid work requirements start earlier while Republicans from New York and New Jersey are after an expensive tax cut

The Independent UK

Ben & Jerry's co-founder arrested

Ben Cohen was arrested after interrupting a hearing to protest the war in Gaza

Salon

Trump Official Declares Welfare Has Become 'a Lifestyle' in the US, Pushes for 'Able-Bodied Adults' to Work

HUD Secretary Scott Turner defended new work requirements by claiming welfare has become "a lifestyle" for many Americans.

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Foreign groups are stealing $1 trillion a year through identity theft – and DOGE is just letting it happen

Report by identity verification services company says scammers are bilking billions from US government agencies and citizens

The Independent UK

Ben & Jerry’s co-founder arrested for Gaza protest at US Senate hearing

Ben Cohen and others interrupted RFK Jr at hearing to protest Israel’s Gaza blockade and Medicaid cuts

The Guardian - US

Congress began losing power decades ago − and now it’s giving away what remains to Trump

Republicans in Congress have been making behind-the-scenes efforts to pass major domestic legislation via the federal budget process. They include potential cuts to Medicaid and extending the 2017 Trump tax cuts.

The Conversation

Ben & Jerry's co-founder arrested after heckling Robert F. Kennedy Jr during pro-Palestine protest

‘You're killing poor kids in Palestine and paying for it by cutting Medicaid for kids in the United States,’ Ben Cohen heckled inside the US Capitol

Evening Standard

Ben from Ben & Jerry’s ice cream arrested at Senate hearing protesting the killing of Gaza children with US bombs

The protest erupted as Robert F Kennedy was testifying

The Independent UK

Here is how California Gov. Gavin Newsom plans to address a $12 billion budget shortfall

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has unveiled a $322 billion budget proposal that aims to address a projected $12 billion deficit

The Independent UK

'Out of Touch' RFK Jr. Believes $40K a Month Is Affordable Price for Rehab: 'That's a Salary'

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made the comment during during Wednesday's Congress hearing concerning the health department's fiscal 2026 budget.

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The Guardian - US

RFK Jr tells Congress ‘people shouldn’t take medical advice from me’

Health secretary demurs on questions about vaccine stance and defends Republican plans to cut healthcare

Latin Times

Republican Senator Dismisses Protests Against Medicaid Cuts: 'They're Probably Hired to Do That'

Senator Roger Marshall said demonstrators protesting Medicaid cuts were "probably hired," and dismissed their concerns as a "sugar high" from pandemic spending.

The Independent UK

Governor warns Pennsylvanians will lose health care, hospitals will close under GOP cuts to Medicaid

Gov. Josh Shapiro is warning that cuts to Medicaid health care that Congress is considering would mean billions of dollars in lost federal aid to Pennsylvania, hundreds of thousands of people losing access to the program and more rural hospitals shutting their doors

Latin Times

Newsom Proposes Pausing Health Access for Undocumented, Low-Income Immigrants Amid California's Billion-Dollar Budget Deficit

California Governor Gavin Newsom is proposing a freeze on new enrollment for low-income immigrants without legal status into the state's Medi-Cal program starting in 2026

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Trump admin officials pen NYT op-ed describing welfare restrictions as an ‘opportunity’: ‘Work is transformative’

Administration claims work restrictions will boost labor force participation and save money

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‘Stealing money from their own communities’: House Dems blast GOP’s climate spending cuts fixating on the Biden era

As long as a policy serves the Republicans, it stays.

The Independent UK

California governor announces $12 billion budget deficit

California Gov. Gavin Newsom says the state is staring down an $12 billion budget deficit

The Guardian - US

South Carolina supreme court upholds six-week abortion ban

Justices rejected Planned Parenthood’s argument over the definition of a ‘fetal heartbeat’ in loss for the health giant

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‘The math is not adding up’: Donald Trump to put 13.7 million Americans on the chopping block. Yes, he lied, AGAIN

No one will be spared, whether they are children, the elderly, or the MAGA.

The Independent UK

AOC slams ‘disrespectful’ Republicans in clash over Medicaid funding for women who miscarried

New York congresswoman blocked from questions about protections for pregnant women and people who experienced miscarriages

The Independent UK

Uproar as disability rights protesters in wheelchairs dragged out of House Medicaid meeting: ‘You’re going to kill me!’

Republicans insist the proposed new work requirements won’t hurt people with disabilities, but disability rights advocates disagree

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