GOP Leadership Keeps Insisting Its Going To Jam The Medicaid Cutting ‘Beautiful’ Bill Through This Week

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Following a small rebellion last week by far-right members of the House Budget Committee — who were calling for steeper spending cuts — Republicans on the panel managed to move their reconciliation package out of the committee late Sunday night. Yet the most perilous moments for Johnson’s fraught push to pass Trump’s everything-and-the-kitchen-sink bill may well lie ahead. 

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