A narrow victory in the U.S. House of Representatives late Tuesday on a new budget proposal that could lead to devastating cuts to Medicaid funding was pilloried on MSNBC on Wednesday morning. With House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) urging his caucus to push through the bill — and only Rep.

Elon Musk drove another wedge through a conservative consensus on a budget resolution as House Speaker Mike Johnson struggled to hold his “big, beautiful bill” together. Johnson was caught between swing district doves wary of cuts to Medicaid and fiscal hawks insisting the $2 trillion spending cuts didn’t go far enough.

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, grappling with an impending government shutdown just weeks away, is racing to push through a budget that reportedly slashes hundreds of billions of dollars from Medicaid while delivering the massive tax cuts promised by President Donald Trump,

Chances for early action on Donald Trump’s tax cut plans improved as House Republicans passed a budget blueprint Tuesday calling for deep cuts in safety-net programs such as Medicaid. House Speaker Mike Johnson,

House speaker Mike Johnson issued a sweeping statement of purpose Tuesday by saying that people abusing welfare will not do so for much longer. “Work requirements for Medicaid. That is something that public opinion polls almost 90 percent [support]” he said in an interview with CNN posted to X.

The budget requires the House Energy and Commerce Committee to cut $880 billion over the next 10 years. The committee oversees Medicaid.

Democrats are rerunning the playbook that won them control of Congress in 2018, focusing on the cost of the G.O.P.’s tax cut plan for ordinary Americans, particularly when it comes to health care.

Mike Johnson alleged that pro-Medicaid protestors at town hall meetings advocating against spending cuts for the federal program are "paid" Democrats.

Analysis: ‘One big, beautiful bill’ could pass thanks to Speaker’s hard work and a few gifts from the Democrats, writes