{"id":31348,"date":"2025-01-23T16:42:40","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T16:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/23\/republicans-reportedly-ready-to-cut-medicaid-funding-to-pay-for-trump-plans\/"},"modified":"2025-01-23T16:42:40","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T16:42:40","slug":"republicans-reportedly-ready-to-cut-medicaid-funding-to-pay-for-trump-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/23\/republicans-reportedly-ready-to-cut-medicaid-funding-to-pay-for-trump-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans reportedly ready to cut Medicaid funding to pay for Trump plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>House and Senate Republicans float ideas to pay for Trump\u2019s immigration crackdown and to fund tax cuts<\/p>\n<p>Republicans are reportedly prepared to cut Medicaid funding to pay for Donald Trump\u2019s promised crackdown on immigration and to fund tax cuts that would <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/tax-cuts-jobs-act-trump-treasury-agenda-f4031196e0d69d0a1630e3b06b6d3cd7\">mostly benefit the wealthy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The GOP in the House and Senate have floated a series of ideas \u2013 many of which would target lower-income Americans \u2013 to cover the cost of extending tax cuts passed by Trump in 2017, the New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/23\/us\/politics\/trump-tax-cuts-immigration-house-republicans.html\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jan\/23\/republicans-medicaid-funding-trump\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House and Senate Republicans float ideas to pay for Trump\u2019s immigration crackdown and to fund tax cuts Republicans are reportedly prepared to cut Medicaid funding to pay for Donald Trump\u2019s promised crackdown on immigration and to fund tax cuts that would mostly benefit the wealthy. The GOP in the House and Senate have floated a &#8230; <a title=\"Republicans reportedly ready to cut Medicaid funding to pay for Trump plans\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/23\/republicans-reportedly-ready-to-cut-medicaid-funding-to-pay-for-trump-plans\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Republicans reportedly ready to cut Medicaid funding to pay for Trump plans\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}