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House GOP unveils Medicaid work requirements in Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’
House Republicans released a sweeping plan late on Sunday to curb who gets Medicaid coverage and roll back former President Joe Biden’s electric vehicle (EV) mandate, among other measures.
The Energy & Commerce Committee, which has broad jurisdiction, including over federal health programs, telecommunications and energy, was tasked with finding at least $880 billion in spending cuts to pay for other priorities in President Donald Trump’s «big, beautiful bill.»
Committee Chairman Brett Guthrie, R-Ky., told House Republicans on a lawmaker-only call on Sunday night that the panel had found «north of $900 billion» in savings, however – a significant victory for House GOP leaders who weathered attacks from Democrats about significant cuts to welfare programs like Medicaid.
However, Republicans largely avoided the deep cuts to Medicaid that were sought by some fiscal hawks in the House GOP Conference, a win for moderate Republicans who were more politically vulnerable to Democratic attacks over the issue.
ANTI-ABORTION PROVIDER MEASURE IN TRUMP’S ‘BIG, BEAUTIFUL BILL’ COULD SPARK HOUSE GOP REBELLION
House Speaker Mike Johnson, left, shakes hands with then-President-elect Donald Trump on stage at a House Republicans Conference meeting at the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill on Nov. 13, 2024, in Washington, D.C. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
The legislation would put a new 80-hour-per-week work requirement on certain able-bodied adults receiving Medicaid, aged 19 through 64.
It would also put guardrails on states spending funds on their expanded Medicaid populations. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) allowed states to expand Medicaid coverage to adults who make up to 138% of the poverty level.
More specifically, states that provide Medicaid coverage to illegal immigrants could see their federal Medicaid reimbursement dollars diminished, putting more of that cost on the state itself.
The bill would also require states with expanded Medicaid populations to perform eligibility checks every six months to ensure the system is not being abused.
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Guthrie told House Republicans on a Sunday night call that the legislation was «ending» the former Biden administration’s EV mandate. He said $105 billion in savings could be found in ending the mandate to have EVs account for two-thirds of all new car sales by 2032.
Other savings are found in rescinding unspent funds in a variety of Biden green energy tax programs established via the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).
It is not a full repeal of the IRA, however, as some conservatives had been pushing Republicans to do.
House Energy & Commerce Committee Chairman Brett Guthrie unveiled the legislation on Sunday night. (Getty Images)
That had been another point of contention ahead of the bill’s release, with GOP lawmakers who have businesses in their districts that have benefited from the green energy subsidies pushing back on significant cuts.
On the other end of the energy divide, the bill would also boost Trump’s non-green energy goals by establishing a fast-tracked natural gas permitting route. The permit applicant would be required to pay $10 million or 1% of the project’s cost to be on the expedited track.
There is also a victory for social conservatives in a measure that would make certain large abortion providers ineligible for Medicaid funding. That measure was pushed by House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., himself, and was backed by anti-abortion groups like Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America.
However, it could run into opposition from moderate Republicans – Rep. Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., called the provision «problematic» and warned colleagues they were «running into a hornet’s nest» on the matter in the Sunday night call.
The legislation does provide exceptions for places that provide abortions in cases of rape, incest, or when the life of the mother is at stake. It’s not necessarily clear, however, if providing voluntary abortions would disqualify those locations.
The Energy & Commerce Committee’s legislation accounts for the bulk of Republicans’ $1.5 trillion to $2 trillion spending cuts they are hoping to find in the budget reconciliation process.
House Republicans currently have a razor-thin three-vote margin, meaning they can afford to have little dissent and still pass anything without Democratic support. They are hoping to do just that, with virtually no Democrats currently on board with Trump’s massive Republican policy overhaul.
The budget-reconciliation process lowers the Senate’s passage threshold from 60 votes to 51, lining up the House’s own simple majority threshold.
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Reconciliation allows the party in power to effectively skirt the minority and pass broad pieces of legislation – provided they address taxes, spending or the national debt.
Trump wants Republicans to use the maneuver to tackle his priorities on the border, immigration, taxes, defense, energy and raising the debt ceiling.
To do that, several committees of jurisdiction are working on their specific portions of the bill, which will then be put together in a massive vehicle to pass the House and Senate.
GOP leaders hope to have that final bill on Trump’s desk by Fourth of July.
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Giro en las negociaciones: Pakistán le pide a Donald Trump ampliar el plazo para Irán y a Teherán a que abra el estrecho de Ormuz por dos semanas
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Iran’s UN ambassador takes swipe at Trump in final hours before Strait of Hormuz deadline
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Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations took a swipe at President Donald Trump on Tuesday hours before Trump’s deadline to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, calling one of the president’s posts on Truth Social «deeply irresponsible» and «profoundly alarming.»
Trump has given the Iranian regime until 8 p.m. ET to reopen the Strait of Hormuz — a key waterway — or face strikes against its power plants and bridges.
In a post Tuesday morning, Trump said, «A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again,» and, «I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will.»
«Today the President of the United States again resorted to language that is not only deeply irresponsible but profoundly alarming, declaring that, quote, ‘the whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back,’ unquote,» Amir-Saeid Iravani said at U.N. headquarters in New York on Tuesday afternoon.
RUSSIA, CHINA VETO UN RESOLUTION AIMED AT REOPENING STRAIT OF HORMUZ, HOURS BEFORE TRUMP DEADLINE
Amir-Saeid Iravani, Iran’s U.N. ambassador, left, and President Donald Trump. (Timothy Clary/AFP via Getty Images; Mark Schiefelbein/AP)
«It is regrettable and alarming that while in full view of the international community, the President of the United States shamelessly and brazenly issues threats to destroy all civilian infrastructure in Iran, including bridges, power plants and energy facilities, by setting a deadline and openly reveals this intent to commit vile crimes and crimes against humanity,» Iravani added.
The White House, when asked by Fox News Digital for reaction, said, «The Iranian regime has committed egregious human rights abuses against its own citizens for 47 years, just murdered tens of thousands of protestors in January, and has indiscriminately targeted civilians across the region in order to cause as much death as possible throughout this conflict.»
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A satellite image shows the Strait of Hormuz, a key maritime passage connecting the Persian Gulf to the Gulf of Oman, vital for global energy supply. (Amanda Macias/Fox News Digital)
«As President Trump said today, Iran can never have a nuclear weapon, and the Iranian people welcome the sound of bombs because it means their oppressors are losing. The President will always stand with innocent civilians while annihilating the terrorists responsible for threatening our country and the entire world with a nuclear weapon,» White House deputy press secretary Anna Kelly added. «Greater destruction can be avoided if the regime understands the seriousness of this moment and makes a deal with the United States.»
Trump also said Tuesday, «now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS?»
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«We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World,» the president added. «47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!»
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Walling Reacts To Trump’s Latest Threat To Iran
Democratic strategist Kevin Walling joins Fox Across America With Jimmy Failla to give his take on President Trump doubling down on his 8 p.m. ET deadline for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz or face strikes against its power plants and bridges on Tuesday.
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Dozens of congressional Democrats are demanding that Republicans remove President Donald Trump for his latest threat against Iran, but one lawmaker says the idea isn’t «realistic.»
Several congressional Democrats want to invoke the 25th Amendment, a decades-old addition to the Constitution that empowers a president’s Cabinet to remove him from office if he is unable to do the job.
Some Democrats are arguing that Trump’s latest threat against Iran on Truth Social — where he declared that a «whole civilization will die tonight» unless his demands to reopen the Strait of Hormuz are met — is proof that he has lost the ability to carry out his role as commander in chief.
But Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., doesn’t believe now is the moment to pull the trigger on the 25th Amendment.
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Dozens of congressional Democrats are demanding that Republicans remove President Donald Trump for his latest threat against Iran. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
«I’m getting a lot of traffic about the 25th Amendment after Trump’s mad rants,» Whitehouse said on X. «The president is facing serious mental decline; I’m with you on that.»
«But unfortunately, invoking the 25th is not realistic right now, given his oddball Cabinet of sycophants and eccentrics, and Republican ‘spines of foam,’» he continued. «We’re going to have to buckle down and win this the old-fashioned way.»
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But Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., doesn’t believe now is the moment to pull the trigger on the 25th Amendment. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
Doing so would require Vice President JD Vance and a majority of Trump’s Cabinet to agree to remove him. They would then send a declaration to Congress, which Trump would likely dispute, requiring a two-thirds vote in both chambers to officially remove him from office.
It’s a much higher bar than impeachment and conviction — and a move that has never been used to remove a sitting president.
While the measure has been used a handful of times since its ratification in the 1960s — either for brief transfers of power during medical procedures requiring anesthesia or to fill vacancies in the vice presidency — it has never been used to involuntarily remove a president.
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Vice President JD Vance laughs at the sound of President Donald Trump calling in as he was delivering remarks at a Day of Friendship event with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban at MTK Sportpark in Budapest, Hungary, on April 7, 2026. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)
Congressional Republicans similarly called for invoking the 25th Amendment against former President Joe Biden toward the end of his presidency, particularly after his debate performance against Trump in the summer of 2024.
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Still, Democrats are seeking recourse over Trump’s Easter comments and his latest post Tuesday.
«If I were in Trump’s Cabinet, I would spend Easter calling constitutional lawyers about the 25th Amendment,» Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., said on X. «This is completely, utterly unhinged. He’s already killed thousands. He’s going to kill thousands more.»
Others are accusing Trump of being on the cusp of committing war crimes by targeting civilian infrastructure.
When asked if she believed that the administration would be carrying out a war crime by targeting power supply and bridges, Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, said, «No.»
«It’s an ongoing operation, and if he needs leverage, he’s using that leverage,» Ernst said.
Many Republicans have remained silent on Trump’s post.
Fox News Digital reached out to the White House for comment and has not yet received a reply.
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