Donald Trump publicly resisted Medicaid cuts — until his budget director, Russell Vought, convinced the president that reductions to heath coverage for low-income people, embedded in the Republican tax bill,

President Donald Trump’s "big beautiful" tax and spending bill could add $2.4 trillion to the deficit over the next decade, according to an estimate from the CBO. The plan extends Trump’s 2017 tax cuts and adds new ones,

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said millions of Americans would lose health insurance through 2034 under the "one big beautiful bill."