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.
Republicans targeting safety net programs once invoked women they claimed were living lavishly on government funds. Now as they seek to pare back Medicaid, the imagery has changed — but not the argument.
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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