Work requirements could transform Medicaid and food aid
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The House bill includes SALT cap increases, changes to Medicaid and SNAP and new rules to claim child tax credits.
The Congressional Budget Office has said the bill, if enacted, would cause more than 8 million people to lose their coverage.
Now the Senate gets its hands on the "big, beautiful bill," which exceeds 1,000 pages, after House committees labored on it for months.
The United States House of Representatives on May 22, 2025, narrowly approved a far-reaching budget reconciliation package that if enacted would sever at least tens of thousands of West Virginians’ access to health and social safety net programs.
Over 90,000 Missourians could lose their Medicaid coverage under a proposal by Congressional Republicans to implement work requirements, according to a pair of recent studies of the plan.
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In Oklahoma, nearly one in four Oklahomans are on Medicaid. Officials are worried the budget bill in the U.S. Senate will have major reprecussions.
The massive reconciliation bill that passed the House of Representatives in a 215-214 vote May 22 includes provisions to increase Medicare physician payments by 2.25% in 2026 and implement ongoing annual inflation-based payments thereafter.
Democratic U.S. Reps. Mikie Sherrill and Josh Gottheimer, the two members of Congress running for New Jersey governor, both spoke out against the Republican-backed budget bill that passed the U.S. House Thursday morning.