Key Takeaways Congress is proposing significant changes to Medicaid that would reduce federal spending on the program. The changes are expected to affect at least 7.7 million Americans' health care coverage.

Republicans in the U.S. House of Delegates advanced a mega bundle of bills designed to shave billions from the federal budget, which Democrats and advocates have said will take resources from the nation’s most vulnerable citizens and hinder social safety nets.

The winds of change are sweeping across the Medicaid landscape — and for those of us working in skilled nursing facilities, standing still is no longer an

The House-approved budget bill includes proposals for significant spending cuts to Medicaid and new work requirements.

A House-passed reconciliation bill would reduce federal funding to states that provide state-funded health insurance to people in the U.S. illegally, resulting in 1.4 million people losing coverage, according to a preliminary Congressional Budget Office analysis.

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. Supporters of the bill say the moves will save money, root out waste and encourage personal responsibility.

Following the passage of Trump's "big, beautiful bill" in the House, several Delaware lawmakers spoke out against potential adjustments to Medicaid.

The U.S. House has passed a sweeping budget bill that would cut Medicaid by hundreds of billions of dollars and throw millions of Americans off plans.