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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
John Bowden

Mike Johnson’s prize for victory on Trump’s budget? A fight over Medicaid

Speaker Mike Johnson saw his party narrowly pass a budget plan that would fund an extension of the 2017 Trump tax cuts this week by identifying hundreds of billions of dollars in savings elswhere in government. - (Getty Images)

House Speaker Mike Johnson pulled his caucus through a tight vote Tuesday as he fights to deliver on several of Donald Trump’s legislative priorities in one large bill.

As a reward, his party will now undergo a public battle over where to come up with hundreds of billions of dollars in spending cuts — much of which the GOP has claimed will come from Medicaid.

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