Medicaid, Trump and bill
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The One Big Beautiful Bill Act provides more opportunities for enrollees to fall through the cracks by adding red tape, health experts say.
Exactly how cuts to public assistance programs in President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” will affect Minnesota is yet to be seen, though by one estimate, up to a quarter-million people in the state could lose Medicaid coverage over the next decade.
Florida did not expand Medicaid as most states did, so the impact may be lesser than other places, but reductions loom.
Cuyahoga County officials are bracing for a "dramatic" impact to SNAP and Medicaid recipients now that Congress and President Donald Trump have imposed new work requirements and frequent renewals.
What do you think of President Donald Trump’s so-called “big, beautiful bill, which he signed into law on July 4 after narrow passage in the U.S. House and Senate.
Voters elected Trump in November in hopes he would fulfill his promise to “end inflation and make America affordable again.” That promise hasn’t materialized; in fact, groceries, housing, and electricity bills are all getting more expensive. And with the stroke of his signature Friday, Trump has broken his promise on health care, too.
When President Donald Trump signs his so-called big, beautiful bill into law Friday, much of the focus will be on its big-ticket items — tax cuts, slashes to Medicaid and food stamp spending and boosted border security funding.