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SD Sen. Mike Rounds secured a handshake deal with White House budget director to transfer $9.4M to Native American radio stations in rural areas.
Despite a setback to President Donald Trump's megabill Thursday morning, the president held an event in the East Room of the White House to rally Republicans behind his tax legislation.
"Traditional Medicare has roughly 20% cost-sharing," Sommers said. "For people who have both Medicaid and Medicare, Medicaid covers those costs. Also, traditional Medicare has no out-of-pocket cap, meaning someone can rack up tens of thousands of dollars of costs if they have a catastrophic illness, which Medicaid would cover if they have both."
The so-called "One, Big Beautiful Bill," spanning over 900 pages, includes the largest cuts to Medicaid in the program's 50-plus years. What to know.
Eliminating these overlapping enrollments would save an estimated $14 billion annually, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
President Trump vowed to end taxes on Social Security, but the One Big Beautiful Bill stops short of fulfilling that promise.
Dr. Mehmet Oz, the celebrity surgeon best known for dispensing medical advice on television and now a top Trump health official, has emerged as the administration’s go-to salesman for the sweeping Medicaid overhaul at the center of the GOP’s legislative ambitions.
Both the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate have passed the Republican-led “One Big Beautiful Bill” and sent it to the White House for
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Trump also vowed to protect Social Security while on the campaign trail, and he has repeated that promise since returning to the White House. "I'm not going to touch Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid," Trump told Fox News in March. He also promised to rid the retirement program of fraud.
The president insisted that Medicaid was sacrosanct—only to be told that his megabill chops the program by $1 trillion.
The Congressional Budget Office estimated that the House version of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act would reduce Medicaid enrollment and cause millions of people to become uninsured by 2034. It didn’t say that “5 million” of the people who are “going to lose insurance” would have “other insurance” so “they’re still insured,