Overview

• Senate Majority Leader John Thune aims to begin floor votes by Friday to meet a self-imposed July 4 passage deadline.
• The Congressional Budget Office warns nearly 11 million people could lose health coverage and 3 million could lose food aid under proposed Medicaid work requirements.
• Senators including Susan Collins and Josh Hawley are pushing for a rural hospital relief fund, with estimates ranging from $15 billion to $100 billion.
• A group of House Republicans from swing and high-tax districts has threatened to reject the Senate’s version over deeper Medicaid cuts and unchanged SALT caps.
• The bill would make 2017 tax cuts permanent and boost immigration enforcement funding, but faces unified Democratic opposition and parliamentarian rulings that have trimmed some provisions.