In a leaked recording from a private Capitol Hill fundraiser, Ken Paxton said 'reasonable cuts to mandatory spending' are unavoidable. About three-quarters of that spending is Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. His campaign didn't answer when asked which programs he'd cut.
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Congressional Republicans voted to slash Medicaid by nearly $1 trillion over the next ten years, and the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates the cuts will take health insurance from 10 million Americans.
Indiana's own Medicaid agency says 58,000 people on the Healthy Indiana Plan don't meet the federal work rule that takes effect January 1 — up to 12% of the program. All seven of Indiana's Republicans in the House voted for the law that created it.
Bryan Steil told constituents a federal rural health fund 'provides an additional $50 billion annually.' It's $10 billion. His newsletter skipped the law he voted for — the biggest Medicaid rollback in history — and the 63,000 Wisconsin adults state officials say are at immediate risk of losing coverage.
Gimenez voted yes in May and again in July 2025 on the budget bill that cuts close to $1 trillion from Medicaid and $187 billion from SNAP. Since then Florida's SNAP rolls have fallen fastest in Monroe County, which is in his district, and on October 1 refugees and asylees started losing Medicaid. The biggest cuts are still to come.
The Big Beautiful Bill cuts Medicaid by close to $1 trillion over 10 years, and the Congressional Budget Office says the law will leave 10 million more people uninsured. Republicans made sure the biggest cut doesn't start until 2027 — after the midterms. 198 Republicans on this site voted for it.
Chris Smith co-led a 128-Republican letter — signed by 103 Republicans on this site — asking HHS's inspector general to investigate Planned Parenthood. It describes an SBA eligibility review of pandemic loans as a probe into whether affiliates 'illegally received $88 million' — months after the last attack on Planned Parenthood's funding closed nearly 30 clinics.
A Nevada legislative audit found the state health division Joe Lombardo oversees couldn't show it reviewed care plans for babies born affected by opioids — and 45% of the plans it sampled didn't show the mothers were offered treatment.
Texas v. Kennedy began as a fight over transgender people. Ken Paxton's Texas was one of five states that stayed in after most others quit — and a judge has now erased the rule telling states to serve disabled people in their homes instead of institutions.