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Trump's Budget Bill Will Likely Force States to Cut Medicaid Payments to Doctors and Hospitals by More Than $50 Billion a Year. 76 Republicans We Track From the Hardest-Hit States Voted for It.

Trump's Budget Bill Will Likely Force States to Cut Medicaid Payments to Doctors and Hospitals by More Than $50 Billion a Year. 76 Republicans We Track From the Hardest-Hit States Voted for It.

A new Health Affairs analysis finds the 2025 budget bill's limits on Medicaid payments will likely force three dozen states to cut what they pay doctors and hospitals by more than $50 billion a year, starting in 2028. Fewer providers are likely to take Medicaid patients. These 76 Republicans on our report cards, from the 15 states facing the biggest cuts, voted yes.

Michigan Towns Are Switching Off Flock's License-Plate Cameras. John James Just Held a Fundraiser Hosted by Flock's Lobbyists.

Michigan Towns Are Switching Off Flock's License-Plate Cameras. John James Just Held a Fundraiser Hosted by Flock's Lobbyists.

Every host of John James' September 23 Washington fundraiser works at BGR Group, which has taken $590,000 to lobby for surveillance-camera company Flock — including the firm's president, a registered Flock lobbyist. As Michigan communities cancel Flock contracts, James has offered only generalities about balancing privacy and policing.