Medicaid, budget bill and The One Big Beautiful
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Column: Requiring work for Medicaid recipients — a provision that killed an effort in 2024 to expand Medicaid in Mississippi — is now law of the land under Trump's so-called "Big Beautiful Bill." Expanding Medicaid could still save lives.
A provision in the budget reconciliation bill known as the One Big Beautiful Bill that passed in Congress and was signed by President Trump effectively defunds the clinics. The law doesn't specifically name Planned Parenthood, but it bars Medicaid payments to large health care nonprofits that offer abortions.
About 60 people gathered at Oshkosh's Opera House Square July 3 for a protest in opposition to President Donald Trump's 'One Big Beautiful Bill.'