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The Senate version of the 2026 budget mega bill is expected to be more aggressive on provider taxes than the House version.
Republican Sen. Josh Hawley has been clear about his red line as the Senate takes up the One Big Beautiful Bill Act: no Medicaid cuts. But what, exactly, would be a cut?
Mehmet Oz, the administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, is scheduled to speak to Republican senators at lunch Tuesday on the need to reform Medicaid, according to a GOP source familiar with the schedule.
The inaptly named “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” is not at all popular. For Republicans in competitive districts, that matters.
Throughout the process of negotiating the GOP’s “One Big, Beautiful Bill” in the U.S. House, Reps. Jeff Van Drew (R-Dennis) and Tom Kean Jr. (R-Westfield)
Republicans’ proposed cuts to Medicaid, the federal program that provides health coverage to poor Americans, could leave hundreds of thousands of Pennsylvanians without health insurance and force rural hospitals and medical centers that cater to vulnerable communities to shut their doors,