Capitol police took 26 people into custody for illegally demonstrating outside the budget hearing on charges of crowding, obstructing and incommoding.

WASHINGTON – House Republicans defended a bill that would enact sweeping tax cuts, raise the debt ceiling, and add restrictions to benefit programs during a heated marathon day of committee hearings on Capitol Hill.

Around two dozen protestors with the grassroots group Four Rivers Indivisible spoke out against the proposal in western Kentucky on Tuesday, rallying outside of Republican Congressman James Comer’s office in downtown Paducah.

Democrats argue the Republican strategy—cutting Medicaid and destabilizing Social Security—amounts to an all-out war on working-class Americans. The CBO report estimates that the GOP’s Medicaid policy shifts would reduce the federal deficit by as much as $710 billion over the next decade,

The health cuts would save $715 billion but leave 8.6 million more people without coverage nationwide, the Congressional Budget Office said. How would it affect NC?

U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor and her Democratic colleagues are concerned spending cuts proposed by Republicans in Congress will reduce the number people with Medicaid coverage.

WASHINGTON — The future of Medicaid for the next decade — who gets tossed off its rolls and how much more Louisiana taxpayers will have to pay — is being decided this week by a U.S. House committee charged with lowering the costs of health care for low-income Americans.

There are still many unknowns about what cuts, if any, could happen to Medi-Cal, which covers roughly 15 million people in the state.

North Carolina health officials are warning that one of the many proposals being floated in Congress to shrink a key Medicaid funding mechanism could devastate hospitals and nursing homes across the state — cutting hundreds of millions of dollars from a system already straining to meet growing needs.