House Republicans on the Energy and Commerce Committee this week unveiled a plan to cut more than $880 billion to pay for a significant portion of President Trump’s domestic agenda. After

The Congressional Budget Office reviewed the leading proposals from Republicans who are trying to cut the costs of a program that serves roughly 72 million poor and disabled Americans.

Johnson said some controversial proposals to slash Medicaid were off the table for the massive Trump agenda bill, while conservatives pressed him on steep spending cuts.

Republicans can save $880 billion over 10 years in Medicaid by block-granting the federal portion, providing maximum state flexibility and expanding Medicare Part D to Medicaid.

In a closed-door meeting late Tuesday, Speaker Mike Johnson and GOP leaders sought to assuage moderates’ fears about changes to the health safety-net program to help finance their party-line megabill.

Republicans, on the hunt for spending cuts, are eyeing a special kind of Medicaid tax that nearly every state uses to boost funding for hospitals, nursing homes, and other providers.

House GOP plows ahead to advance key components of its bill to fund Trump’s agenda -- including taxes and Medicaid cuts -- even as they remain at odds within.

Republicans in the U.S. Congress advanced elements of President Donald Trump's sweeping budget package on Wednesday after a debate that lasted through the night, as a key committee voted along party lines to approve tax cuts that would add trillions of dollars to the U.