{"id":38245,"date":"2025-04-08T17:39:03","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T17:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/08\/medicaid-recipients-demand-that-congress-protect-healthcare-program\/"},"modified":"2025-04-08T17:39:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T17:39:03","slug":"medicaid-recipients-demand-that-congress-protect-healthcare-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/08\/medicaid-recipients-demand-that-congress-protect-healthcare-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Medicaid recipients demand that Congress protect healthcare program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People from 28 states marched on Capitol Hill to demand that lawmakers protect  program from Republican cuts<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2025\/apr\/08\/donald-trump-threatens-tariffs-50-per-cent-china-us-politics-latest-updates-news\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/medicaid\">Medicaid<\/a> recipients from 28 states marched on Capitol Hill on Tuesday to call on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/us-congress\">Congress<\/a> to protect the health insurance program \u2013 a vital lifeline for millions of Americans \u2013 from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> and his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/republicans\">Republican<\/a> allies.<\/p>\n<p>About 130 protesters from across the US held a rally outside the US Capitol building holding signs that said \u201cProtect our lifelines, protect Medicaid and Snap\u201d and \u201cBenefits over billionaires\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/08\/medicaid-cuts-march-capitol-hill\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People from 28 states marched on Capitol Hill to demand that lawmakers protect program from Republican cuts US politics live \u2013 latest updates Medicaid recipients from 28 states marched on Capitol Hill on Tuesday to call on Congress to protect the health insurance program \u2013 a vital lifeline for millions of Americans \u2013 from Donald &#8230; <a title=\"Medicaid recipients demand that Congress protect healthcare program\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/08\/medicaid-recipients-demand-that-congress-protect-healthcare-program\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Medicaid recipients demand that Congress protect healthcare program\">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-38245","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\/38245","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=38245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}