Senate Panel Navigates Delicate Compromises On Medicaid, Taxes In Latest Chunk Of Trump's Megabill

A Senate sheet charged pinch immoderate of nan astir hot-button portions of President Donald Trump’s "big, beautiful bill" unveiled its information of nan gargantuan package connected Monday.

The Senate Finance Committee, which has jurisdiction complete taxation policy, Medicaid and a slew of different items baked into nan House GOP’s type of nan bill, released its matter arsenic Republicans sprint to decorativeness activity connected nan president’s measure up of a self-imposed July 4 deadline.

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President Donald Trump speaks during an "Invest successful America" roundtable pinch business leaders astatine nan White House, Monday, June 9, 2025, successful Washington.  (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

The committee, chaired by Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, had to locomotion a perilous tightrope pinch their legislation, fixed nan push and propulsion surrounding divisive cuts to Medicaid, an summation to nan authorities and section taxation (SALT) conclusion headdress and different provisions successful nan House’s type of nan bill.

Crapo lauded nan measure successful a statement, and noted that it made nan president's 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act permanent, slashed "Green New Deal" spending and targeted "waste, fraud and maltreatment successful spending programs while preserving and protecting them for nan astir vulnerable." 

"I look guardant to continued coordination pinch our colleagues successful nan House and nan Administration to present President Trump’s bold economical schedule for nan American group arsenic quickly arsenic possible," he said. 

While House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., pleaded pinch Senate leaders to alteration nan measure arsenic small arsenic imaginable aft narrowly passing nan measure successful nan House, peculiarly connected nan compromises he reached connected SALT and Medicaid, nan Senate has vowed to time off its imprint connected nan package. 

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Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., speaks pinch reporters astir his plans to beforehand President Donald Trump's spending and taxation bill, astatine nan Capitol successful Washington, Monday, June 2, 2025.  (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Crapo and Republican committee members person likewise had to navigate divisions successful nan precocious chamber, peculiarly astir Medicaid tweaks to supplier payments and an summation to nan SALT headdress to $40,000 — a alteration needed to ram nan measure done nan House, but 1 Senate Republicans dislike.