Medicaid has become a key hot button topic in the sweeping tax and spending cuts bill that House Republicans are scrambling to pass as soon as this week.

New rules would restrict access to the low-income health insurance program, punish states covering undocumented children, and shift costs to states.

Lashing out at Republicans for proposing to “rip away” Medicaid and SNAP benefits from Pennsylvanians, Gov. Josh Shapiro said Friday that the commonwealth would be unable to replace lost funding for those programs should President Donald Trump‘s so-called big,

“Significant cuts to the Medicaid program will directly affect Kansans across the state, regardless of their political views. These cuts would be particularly detrimental to our rural hospitals and providers,” Kelly said in a letter to Kansas congressional members.

If only MAGA cared as much about the middle class as they do billionaires, the world would be a better place," one person said of the incident.

House Republicans narrowly passed a budget plan that would remove health care coverage for nearly 14 million Americans on Medicare and Medicaid, according to the Congressional Budget Office. Congresswoman Lauren Underwood joins “The Weekend” to discuss how Democrats plan to make this a defining issue in the midterms.

New Jersey would lose $3.6 billion in Medicaid funding and $200 million for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, under bill passed by House. The bill now heads to the U.S. Senate.

A GOP proposal unveiled this week would require many enrollees to prove they are working, volunteering, or studying, and to shoulder more of the costs of their care.

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump warned the right flank of House Republicans not to touch Medicaid any further, urging GOP lawmakers to rally behind what he's called his "big, beautiful bill ...

Republicans have set a self-imposed July 4 deadline to pass the legislation in both chambers and send it to Trump’s desk.