Senate Republicans on Tuesday passed the largest cuts to Medicaid since the program began in the 1960s, a move that would erode the social safety net and cause a spike in the number of uninsured

As deep as the House’s Medicaid cuts are for New York, the Senate’s reductions are deeper. Public health officials and hospital groups have been sounding increasingly dire alarms about the domestic policy bill Senate Republicans are advancing this week to enact much of President Trump’s domestic policy agenda.