Yesterday's Senate vote to pass President Trump's legislative agenda means it's now in the House's hands and Senator John Fetterman can finally go.
It was a tight vote, a lot to fight about in 900 plus pages,
but the loudest fight was over Medicaid.
Trump's tax cuts had to be paid for and the bill uses new work requirements and cuts to Medicaid to do that.
The Congressional Budget Office estimates around 12 million people could lose their health insurance in the next decade.
is so mad, you guys.
When they get sick, they will not be able to get chemotherapy,
or they will have to go into medical debt to get chemotherapy.
Like, why?
So I can get a tax cut?
The fact is that in the 2024 election,
President Trump got a huge share of the working class vote,
so many of his voters risk losing their insurance now,
a thing that some Republicans had copped to, then voted for it anyway.
That's all ahead on Today Explained.
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