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New Analyses Suggest Trump Admin Really Just Wants to Push Millions of Medicaid Recipients Off Care

"Medicaid work requirements will almost certainly cause many low-income adults to lose health coverage," the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities finds. (Photo: Stephen Melkisethian/flickr/cc)

In Ploy to 'Force' Deep Safety Net Cuts, GOP Reportedly Planning Vote on Balanced Budget Amendment

Jake Johnson, staff writer

"Lying, ultra-hypocritical Republicans to take up a balanced budget amendment to deflect attention from their massive $2 trillion increase in the deficit with their tax give-away to the wealthy."

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Most in US Like Candidates Who Want to Expand—Not Cut—Safety Net: Poll

Jake Johnson, staff writer

New poll comes after Democrat Conor Lamb won Trump district on platform of...

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'Needless and Ideologically-Driven Cruelty': Arkansas to Become First State to Implement Trump's Assault on Medicaid

Jake Johnson, staff writer

"In a very real sense, health coverage for millions of Americans who rely on...

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160 Groups Oppose Trump Medicaid Policy That 'Cruelly Punishes and Stigmatizes Low-Income People'

'Morally Bankrupt' Budget: After $1.5 Trillion Gift to Rich, Trump Demands $1.7 Trillion in Safety Net Cuts

Celebrations as Oregon Voters Approve Tax Hike to Cover Medicaid Expansion

Trump Launches 'Truly Savage' Attack on Medicaid By Pushing Work Requirements

Sanders: Passage of GOP Tax Bill Great Victory for Koch Brothers as 'Looting of Federal Treasury' Begins

GOP Tax Scam Two-Step: Explode Deficit With Cuts for Rich, Then Screw the Poor

Sanders Demands Ryan, McConnell Come Clean on GOP Plan to Gut Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security

Seema Verma and Donald Trump

In 'Twisted' Push, Trump Admin Encourages States to Impose Work Requirements for Medicaid

Trump GOP Medicare Medicaid Tax Cuts

216 GOP House Members Just Voted to Destroy the Safety Net and Deliver a Trillion-Dollar Tax Cut to the Rich

Trump Revives Notorious GOP Dog Whistle in Call for 'Welfare Reform'

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and other Republican leaders

What Trump Calls "Great," All 50 State Directors of Medicaid Say Is Terrible

Covering All People With Single Payer, Says GOP Senator, Is Not Money 'Properly Spent'

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Social Security Works

Social Security and Medicare Are Alive. Paul Ryan is (Politically) Dead.

Social Security Works

Conor Lamb's Victory Shows that Democrats Win By Fighting for Social Security and Medicare...

National Nurses United

Proposed Trump Budget Cuts Will Devastate Healthcare Programs and Harm Most Vulnerable Patients

Jubilee USA Network

New Law Provides Disaster Relief and Medicaid Funds for Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands

Public Citizen

Medicaid Work Requirements: Cruel, Stupid and Illegal

Senator Bernie Sanders

Sanders Announces Medicare for All Town Hall With NowThis, The Young Turks, ATTN:

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Rebecca Vallas

Tennessee Wants to Use Funding Meant for Poor Families to Kick People Off Medicaid

Judith Solomon

Arkansas’ Harsh Medicaid Work Requirement Jeopardizes Recent Progress

Paul Buchheit

America's Richest 2% Made More Money in 2017 than the Cost of the Entire Safety Net

Jamila Michener

How Trump’s Medicaid Restrictions Will Stop People From Voting

Angela Hanks

Paul Ryan’s Push for Workforce Development Is a Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing

Robert Reich

The Next Big Fight: Saving Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security from Massive Cuts

Shawn Fremstad

No, Forced Labor Is Not Good for Your Health

LeeAnn Hall

Trump’s Gift for the Unemployed: Kicking Them Off Health Care

Jared Bernstein

A New Year’s Resolution for the Media: Do Not Let Republicans Get Away With Saying ‘Reforms’ When They Mean ‘Cuts’

Neal Gabler

The Republican Long Game

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