The proposal would salvage some clean-energy tax credits and phase out others more slowly, making up some of the cost by imposing deeper cuts to Medicaid than the House-passed bill would.
The 549-page measure, released by the Senate Finance Committee, outlines changes to Medicaid that would be far more aggressive than the version passed in the House, making millions more Americans subject to a work requirement.
Some Republican senators are voicing concern over the House-passed bill that would rescind $9 billion that Congress already approved, including money for NPR and PBS stations in their states.
The provision, long advocated by Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri, would revive and broaden a law for compensating those who developed serious illnesses from government-caused nuclear contamination.
A law that expired last year was meant to compensate civilians sickened by the legacy of the nation’s aboveground nuclear testing program, as well as uranium miners.
Republicans whose constituents rely on nutritional assistance worry that cuts to those programs approved by the House will saddle their states with huge costs and harm low-income children.
Speaker Mike Johnson and President Trump at the Capitol last month. Mr. Johnson said the funding cuts the president wants would help restore “fiscal sanity.”
The president is pressing Republicans in the Senate to unite quickly behind sprawling legislation that carries his domestic agenda, but the measure’s opponents have a powerful new ally: Elon Musk.
Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky is part of a group of Republican senators agitating for deeper spending cuts in a bill carrying President Trump’s domestic agenda, noting that it is projected to balloon federal deficits.
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