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GOP takes aim at Medicaid, putting enrollees and providers at risk

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Chairman Rep. Jodey Arrington (R-TX), center, delivers his opening remarks during a House Budget Committee meeting in the Cannon House Office Building on Feb. 13 in Washington, D.C. 

Medicaid is under threat � again.

Republicans, who narrowly control Congress, are pushing proposals that could sharply cut funding to the government health insurance program for poor and disabled Americans, as a way to finance President Donald Trump’s agenda for tax cuts and border security.



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