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The House-approved budget bill includes proposals for significant spending cuts to Medicaid and new work requirements.

A House Republican bill would require Medicaid recipients to work, volunteer or be enrolled in school for at least 80 hours a month.

In the Ohio House’s version of the budget bill, Ohio would eliminate Group VIII — another name for the Medicaid expansion group that covers more than 700,000 Ohioans who live above the income requirements for traditional Medicaid but are still in need of assistance — if the federal government’s share of the funding dips below 90%.

The governor said 310,000 Pennsylvanians could lose Medicaid and another 140,000 SNAP benefits if President Donald Trump‘s so-called big, beautiful bill becomes law.

There are as many factions among Republicans in the upper chamber as in the House. Both chambers have to agree on the final product. It won’t be easy.

A tax and spending package passed Thursday by House Republicans funnels the bulk of its financial benefits to wealthy households, according to economists and tax experts. The rich benefit via a slew of tax cuts tied to businesses,

After weeks of internal GOP wrangling, the Republican-led House early Thursday passed the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act," critical to advancing President Donald Trump's tax and immigration agenda. A smiling Speaker Mike Johnson announced the massive measure passed by a single vote -- 215-214 -- and was greeted with applause.