Senators plan Medicaid’s future

By Robert King

Published May 24, 2017 4:01am ET

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Republican senators are grappling with how to rein in Medicaid spending even as some dismiss President Trump’s staggering proposed $1 trillion cut to the program.

Trump’s fiscal 2018 budget request released Tuesday calls for an additional $627 billion in Medicaid cuts over the next decade on top of $880 billion from the American Health Care Act, an Obamacare repeal bill that passed the House this month.

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