Trump, Medicaid
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Texas avoided some steeper Medicaid cuts, but hundreds of thousands of Texans are still projected to lose health coverage due to the new law.
The bill would cut $1.1 trillion in health-care spending and result in 11.8 million people losing health coverage over the next decade, according to estimates.
President Donald Trump’s recently enacted tax and spending law will add $3.4 trillion to US deficits over a decade and leave millions without health care coverage, according to a new estimate from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.