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President Donald Trump on Tuesday morning turned up the heat on the more than a dozen House Republican holdout votes endangering passage of the bill.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans stayed up all night to pass their multitrillion-dollar tax breaks package, with Speaker Mike Johnson defying the skeptics and unifying his ranks to muscle President Donald Trump's priority bill to approval Thursday.
The House of Representatives passed Trump's "One Big Beautiful" reconciliation budget that will likely kick millions off programs like Medicaid.
And what will they mean for the millions of low-income people who might lose health care benefits as a result?
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.
After a meeting with Trump and conservative holdouts, Speaker Mike Johnson said he planned told hold a floor vote Wednesday night or Thursday morning.
The U.S. House has passed a sweeping budget bill that would cut Medicaid by hundreds of billions of dollars and throw millions of Americans off plans.
Trump's bill would require Medicaid applicants to provide proof of their work hours and apply for specific exceptions, creating new barriers for individuals to maintain insurance.