Overview

• Capitol Police detained 33 demonstrators for “crowding, obstructing and incommoding” in the Russell Senate Rotunda and used zip-ties on some wheelchair users.
• Members of disability rights group ADAPT led the protest against cuts that could strip coverage from about 10 million low-income Americans over the next decade.
• The budget bill would introduce work requirements for Medicaid recipients and enact deep funding reductions to the program that covers more than 70 million people.
• Senate Republicans are divided over the legislation’s final text even as congressional leaders aim to hold initial votes as early as Thursday.
• GOP negotiators are advocating a $15 billion hospital stabilization fund to shore up facilities reliant on federal Medicaid payments.