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Who Loses in the Republican Policy Bill?

Congressional Republicans just passed President Trump’s sprawling domestic policy bill that extends and expands tax cuts and spending on defense and deportations, while slashing Medicaid, food benefits and clean energy initiatives. Margot Sanger-Katz, a health care policy reporter for The New York Times, gives an overview.

Planned Parenthood Must Choose Between Abortion or Millions in Federal Funding

Under the new spending bill, the nation’s largest abortion provider would have to stop offering abortion in some states or lose millions in Medicaid funding for basic health care.

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The Planned Parenthood regional facility in Fairview Heights, Ill. Planned Parenthood is the country’s largest abortion provider.

Senate Version of Trump’s Policy Bill Would Slash Medicaid Spending Even More

Analysis from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office found that Republicans’ new version of the legislation would make far deeper cuts and lead to more people becoming uninsured than previous proposals.

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Demonstrators protested Medicaid cuts outside of the Capitol last week.

Republicans Lavish Alaska With Benefits in Policy Bill, Grasping for a Key Vote

New provisions that benefit whaling captains and rural hospitals appear to be aimed at winning over Senator Lisa Murkowski, the Alaska Republican who had said the bill would hurt her state.

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Senator Murkowski arriving to the U.S. Capitol in Washington earlier this month. For weeks she had openly voiced her displeasure with how several provisions in the legislation could impact Alaskans.

Senate Takes Up Trump’s Policy Bill, as G.O.P. Scrounges for Votes to Pass It

Republican leaders barely scaled a key procedural hurdle to bring up the bill, but Democrats delayed its consideration and it was unclear whether the G.O.P. had the votes to pass it.

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G.O.P. leaders in the Senate are trying to quickly pass the legislation and send it to the House for final approval in time to meet the July 4 deadline that President Trump has set.

Top Senate Official Rules Against Several Key Provisions in G.O.P. Policy Bill

The parliamentarian, who decides whether the bill complies with budget rules, threw out more proposals, leaving Republicans searching for ways to cover its cost.

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The Senate parliamentarian ruled on Thursday that several of the measures in the Republican domestic policy bill could not be included in the legislation in their current form.

‘Little Lobbyists’ Urge Senators to Oppose Trump’s Bill Cutting Medicaid

Children with disabilities and their parents who rely on the health insurance program took to Capitol Hill this week to warn that the proposed reductions could be ‘devastating.’

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Members of the Little Lobbyists walk through the halls before meetings with senators in the Russell Senate Office Building in Washington on Tuesday.

Senate Bill Would Make Deep Cuts to Medicaid, Setting Up Fight With House

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.

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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.
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