The Republican budget bill proposed by the House of Representatives could enforce major changes to Medicaid and SNAP, but there are also significant updates to federal student loans included in the bill.

The GOP’s partisan budget will cut Medicaid, Medicare, and food assistance programs, like SNAP, to pay for a tax-cut for the ultra-wealthy…,” the delegation said.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) has begun meeting privately with Senate Republicans who are threatening to derail President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” over what they fear could be

Republicans in the General Assembly want to make some county school board elections partisan, adding two new counties to the roster this week. The Senate revised House Bill 116, which would enact the change in Columbus County, as well as Johnston and Gaston counties. T. Keung Hui has the story.

Arizona's Democratic lawmakers on Capitol Hill say they'll fight a Republican bill that would cut Medicaid funding.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom slammed congressional proposals that would, among other things, cut Medicaid funding to states that provide taxpayer-financed non-emergency health care to illegal immigrants.

I’m looking at this budget making some hard decisions and hard cuts, because that’s what governing is, and that’s what being an adult is,” the Democratic leader said.

The North Carolina House’s state budget proposal makes plain differences on taxes, salaries and job cuts between Republicans who control both General Assembly chambers.