Medicaid

• Senate Republicans Release Long-Awaited Budget Bill Details in Lead Up to July 4 Deadline

  June 20, 2025: The Senate Finance Committee released legislative text that will act as the foundation for the Senate Republican budget bill this week. The text incorporates many provisions from the House version, like repealing the minimum nursing home staffing rul...Read more >

• New Report Shows How Medicaid Cuts Will Increase Cost of Healthcare for All Americans

  June 20, 2025: A new AFL-CIO report finds that Senate Republicans’ budget reconciliation bill, which includes major Medicaid cuts, will increase healthcare costs — for everyone. If the bill passes, 179 million workers with job-based insurance could see an in...Read more >

• New Fact Sheet: Threats to Retirees in House Budget Package

  May 30, 2025: This week, the Alliance released a new fact sheet detailing how the Republican budget, recently passed in the House of Representatives, will be harmful for seniors. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (H.R. 1) will slash $490 billion from Medicare and ...Read more >

• House Passes One Big, Brutal Budget Bill — Seniors’ Health and Security at Risk

  May 23, 2025: In the early hours of Thursday morning, House Republicans narrowly passed their budget proposal, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (H.R. 1), by a vote of 215-214. The legislation now moves to the Senate for consideration. The vote was deeply di...Read more >

• Retirees Slam GOP’s Tax and Budget Bill for Putting All American Seniors’ Health Care at Risk

  May 21, 2025: WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Alliance for Retired Americans today condemned House Republicans’ “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” as a direct attack on the health care of nearly every senior in America. According to a new report from the Congressional...Read more >

• Executive Director Fiesta Briefs Machinists on Threats to Retirement Security and How to Fight Back

  May 16, 2025: Alliance Executive Director Richard Fiesta spoke to retirees from the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAMAW) this week. He provided an overview of the Alliance’s work and updated attendees on key retiree issues, incl...Read more >

• GOP Budget and Tax Plan Advances in the House of Representatives

  May 16, 2025: The House of Representatives moved closer to a final vote on its so-called “big, beautiful bill” tax and spending plan this week. As of today, the plan calls for $715 billion in cuts to Medicaid and $300 billion in cuts to food assistance prog...Read more >

• KFF Health News: Trump Froze Out Project 2025 in His Campaign. Now Its Blueprint Is His Health Care Playbook.

  February 26, 2025: Few voters likely expected President Donald Trump in the first weeks of his administration to slash billions of dollars from the nation’s premier federal cancer research agency. But funding cuts to the National Institutes of Health were presaged...Read more >

• KFF Health News: Montana’s Medicaid Expansion Conundrum

  February 25, 2025: HELENA, Mont. — Despite concerns about what Congress and the Trump administration might have planned for Medicaid, Montana’s Republican-led legislature and GOP governor appear ready to keep the state’s Medicaid expansion program in place beyond...Read more >

• KFF Health News: GOP Takes Aim at Medicaid, Putting Enrollees and Providers at Risk

  February 21, 2025: 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 T...Read more >