Trump, One Big Beautiful Bill and House Republicans
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House Speaker Mike Johnson shepherded through Congress President Trump's spending bill, which includes Medicaid work requirements.
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Our aging population and low birth rate are structural problems added to the political problems that make the Republican megabill not so beautiful.
The Senate returns next week to take center stage in the debate over the one big, beautiful bill, after a couple months where the large fiscal package seemingly stood on a knife’s edge in the House.
Work requirements — better understood as benefit limits for the unemployed — are the centerpiece of Medicaid and food benefit cuts Republicans are using to offset part of the cost of tax cuts at the heart of their so-called One Big Beautiful Bill. Work requirements were the core of a 1996 welfare reform bill that Clinton signed into law.
The biggest hurdle in the Senate for Trump’s tax and immigration bill could come — like it did in the House — from deficit hawks who demand more cuts.
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