Senate Republicans on Tuesday narrowly cleared a key procedural hurdle on the path to clawing back billions of dollars in funding previously authorized by Congress for foreign aid and public

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While many estimates are circulating, only time will reveal how many people will actually lose health insurance under the law.

Senate Republicans released their updated version of the massive spending bill late Friday, which still includes an extension of tax cuts mainly for wealthy people, and have scheduled the first vote to move it forward.

"It only passed the house by one vote with a $2.3 trillion increase in the debt. To ask the House to vote for a bill that increases the national debt by $3.3 trillion, that's a hard sell for fiscal conservatives in the House. So it's not a done deal," Abrams says.

After the U.S. Senate voted to pass the "Big Beautiful Bill," rumors circulated about the consequences of deep cuts to Medicaid.

The Senate’s draft budget bill would cut Medicaid for older adults more deeply than the House version. It would scrap a Biden-era minimum staffing rule for nursing homes.

The Senate crossed all of the lower chamber’s red lines in its revisions to the megabill. Trump plans to make House members pass it anyway.