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Senate Republicans are aiming to push ahead on President Trump's massive tax and spending bill.
The Senate could potentially start voting this afternoon,
despite divisions over cuts to the Medicaid health insurance program for low-income Americans to help offset an extension of Trump's 2017 tax cut.
Renuka Ryerson with our partner KFF Health News has more.
in Affordable Care Act plans and Medicaid,
the federal state insurance program for people with low incomes and disabilities.
The Congressional Budget Office estimates almost 11 million people will lose coverage in the next decade
if the House version of the bill becomes law.
Here's Jennifer Tolbert with KFF's program on Medicaid and the uninsured.
For those people who lose coverage,
whether it's marketplace coverage or Medicaid coverage, the effects could be catastrophic.
The version of the bill under consideration in the Senate includes even deeper Medicaid cuts.
Even when the uninsured rate was at its lowest in 2023,
more than 25 million Americans lacked health insurance.