“I don’t believe this Medicaid thing is going to work. People won’t fall for it,” said Cathy Abernathy, a fixture in Republican politics in the area and mentor to former Speaker Kevin McCarthy. “I put my money on Valadao winning. I don’t think it will be tight.”

Democrats predict doom over a provision within the “One Big, Beautiful Bill" that requires adults to work to be eligible for Medicaid, while GOP senators praise it.

There’s 35 million people under the poverty line inside the United States, and there’s 70 million people that are signed up for Medicaid,” Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.)

Medicaid is the state's largest health insurer, covering a quarter of Michigan residents. Reform supporters say the changes will eliminate loopholes.

Senate Republicans have yet to finalize their version of President Donald Trump’s sweeping domestic policy proposal, but GOP lawmakers up for reelection in 2026 are bracing for the political impact of the bill’s Medicaid cuts.

The Louisiana Democratic Party says President Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill will have devastating impacts on the state, but republicans say the tax cuts were necessary.

Democrats say they're searching for ways to minimize the impact of historic cuts to Medicaid and food benefits under President Trump's budget plan, while preparing to campaign on historic safety net cuts unpopular with the public.

We see this budget for what it is, an extremist road map that takes away what people rely on to survive,” U.S. Rep. Maxwell Frost said at a news conference at the Pan American Behavioral Health

The Mississippi Hospital Association says a big new federal law could cause deeper financial problems for some hospitals in one of the poorest states in the nation.