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Fred Onyango

‘Doesn’t help our voters’: Trump demands GOP back his ‘big beautiful bill’ to kick millions off Medicaid, warns of ‘suffering’

President Trump is continuing his rhetoric of promising that stamping on immigration will be the silver bullet the American economy is in need of.

The Republicans are trying to push a bill at the House that extends the 2017 tax cuts. While they’re going to reduce the taxes for all Americans and restrict access to Medicaid for undocumented immigrants, with an aim to reduce between $560M to $880M in the next 10 years, there has been some skepticism in some corners of Congress. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the move will increase the deficit by $6 trillion, due to the $4 trillion of tax that will be cut — and some members of Congress have been decrying the bill as fiscal irresponsibility.

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