Overview

• Senate Republicans have begun vote-a-rama to secure 51 votes for the $3.8 trillion reconciliation bill before President Trump’s July 4 deadline.
• A CBO report finds the bill would cut Medicaid by more than $1 trillion over the next decade, strip 11.8 million people of insurance and add $3.3 trillion to the federal deficit.
• The package permanently extends 2017 tax cuts, designates $350 billion for border and defense priorities and offsets spending by imposing work requirements on Medicaid and SNAP.
• Senators Tillis, Paul, Collins and Murkowski remain undecided or opposed, warning the measure’s Medicaid cuts and deficit implications threaten their states.
• The White House’s claim that the bill “protects Medicaid” and will boost typical family incomes is disputed by independent analyses and has drawn criticism on the Senate floor.