Congress is pressing to pass President Donald Trump's legislative agenda bill ahead of Memorial Day, though some Republicans have objected to portions of it. The budget reconciliation bill, called the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act,

The U.S. social safety net would be jolted if the budget bill backed by President Donald Trump and passed Thursday by the House of Representatives becomes law.It would impose work requirements for low-income adults to receive Medicaid health insurance and increase them for food assistance as well as cut funding for services like birth control to the nation’s biggest abortion provider.

Older adults and low-income people will have a tougher time accessing food assistance and healthcare services under the House Republicans’ tax bill that will now likely face changes in the Senate.

As late-night negotiations on the House Republicans’ budget reconciliation bill pushed an expected vote to Thursday, long-term care providers are hoping for some kind of Hail Mary.

At the D.C. rally, people stood in the rain holding signs that said, “Who wants long ER wait times?” and “Protect health centers, Protect communities.”

President Donald Trump moved Tuesday to end the quarrelling among various GOP factions and move his domestic-policy megabill toward passage, telling House Republicans behind closed doors that they need to unite immediately behind the “big, beautiful bill” their leaders have assembled.

South Carolina Medicaid approved GLP-1s to treat obesity, placing it among the few state programs covering the drugs. But access remains limited.

Alaskans staged demonstrations Wednesday and Thursday to protest Alaska Rep. Nick Begich’s support for Medicaid cuts in the national budget reconciliation bill. The demonstrations were held outside Begich’s Anchorage office before and after his vote for what attendees called “devastating” Medicaid cuts.