US advocacy groups are waging an intensive campaign to protect Medicaid and Obamacare from Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill”, after House Republicans proposed an $880bn cut that could leave an estimated 13 million Americans without health insurance.
The House bill left Republicans’ most controversial proposals on the table, but has divided Senate Republicans: one called the effort to yank away healthcare “morally wrong and politically suicidal”. Others have described the cuts as insufficient and “anemic”.
