Work requirements for federal aid, including Medicaid and food stamps, receive high levels of bipartisan support in polling. A 2023 Axios-Ipsos poll found that nearly two in three voters, 63%, ...

By ending state Medicaid spending on non-healthcare items and closing the Medicaid provider tax loophole, Republicans could slow Medicaid’s spending growth.

What are Republicans thinking by supporting a proposal to strip health care from millions of vulnerable people, including potentially 770,000 in Illinois?

There's a mid-March deadline to avoid a partial government shutdown, and hesitation is surfacing among congressional ...

Medicaid explainer: who relies on the program, what exactly is known about fraud and how the federal government splits the ...

House Republicans passed a budget plan that seeks to extend tax cuts enacted in 2018 and reduce Medicaid spending. The ...

President Trump has insisted — loudly and repeatedly — that his administration won’t cut Medicare, Medicaid, and Social ...

Washington lawmakers are grappling with a projected $12 billion budget deficit over the next four years and the outlook just got uglier. House Republicans in Congress passed a budget resolution ...

Medicaid has also been a focus of recent protests at lawmakers’ offices around the country. Rep. Suzan DelBene (Washington), chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, said ...

The prospect of a federal funding freeze looms large as New Jersey legislators begin to consider a new state budget for the 2026 fiscal year.