Trump has said there should be no benefits cuts for Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid, the three largest social safety net programs. In the 2024 fiscal year, they accounted for some $3.2 trillion ...

After voting to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as health secretary, Senator Bill Cassidy, a doctor and Republican of Louisiana ...

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya answered a variety of questions for Senators during his confirmation hearing, where restoring trust in science was the main theme.

A federal judge blocked the Trump administration Wednesday from drastically cutting medical research funding that many ...

Presented by The Coalition to Strengthen America’s Healthcare — Senators on Wednesday pressed Trump’s pick to head the ...

Republicans can’t achieve their goal of slashing $2 trillion in federal spending over the next decade without cutting Medicaid, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO).

The nonpartisan bookkeeper said there’s no other way to cut $1.5 trillion from the budget over the next decade.

Federal cuts to Medicaid would impact more than 80 million people who rely on the program. It may also negatively effect the ...

Democrats and Republicans are accusing one another of “lying” about what a House Republican budget resolution means for ...

Cuts to the largest insurance program would directly impact the 72 million people who depend on it, and also our nation's ...

President Donald Trump did not offer GOP congressional leaders any easy lay-ups in his joint address Tuesday night, sending mixed messages on his existing legislative priorities and proposing others ...

U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson joined House Republicans in voting for a budget framework that calls for steep spending cuts, but she ...