As Republicans face criticism for slashing Medicaid, Hawley tried to shift the focus to a less-noticed part of the law that will benefit victims of nuclear waste.

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act provides more opportunities for enrollees to fall through the cracks by adding red tape, health experts say.

Officials say even those with private insurance will face higher costs and longer ER waits as hospitals scramble to make up for massive funding losses.

Axios Visuals Hundreds of thousands of Washingtonians will lose health care coverage because of Medicaid cuts included in the spending bill President Trump signed last week, Gov. Bob Ferguson warned Wednesday.

The budget bill President Donald Trump signed into law last week includes more than $1 trillion in spending reductions on Medicaid over the next decade, and nearly $200 billion in cuts to funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program during that same time, according to estimates from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.

The massive bill is guided by spending requests from the White House. It will extend the 2017 Trump tax cuts, while cutting billions of dollars in social program funding. It’s been described as the largest cuts to social welfare programs since at least the 1990s, and according to some experts the most severe in modern history.

The Democrat criticized the bill’s changes to Medicaid and SNAP benefits, saying that food assistance and health care networks are already under pressure in Vermont.

Despite early conversations and, kind of, conjecture, I think that advocates did a pretty solid job to make it clear that any changes to the FMAP would be devastating.”

A budget bill that will cut federal Medicaid spending by an estimated $1 trillion over 10 years has brought a warning from Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker that more than 330,000 Illinoisans will lose Medicaid coverage and some rural hospitals could see devastating effects.