Additionally, President Trump last month pushed Congress to approve a "big, beautiful" tax and spending bill that fulfills several other campaign promises. "In the coming weeks and months, we will pass the largest tax cuts in American history — and that will include no tax on tips, no tax on Social Security, and no tax on overtime," he said.

President Donald Trump has repeatedly vowed he wouldn't allow Medicaid to be cut, but House Republicans' bill to fund his agenda aims to cut hundreds of billions of dollars from the program that provides health care for poor, elderly and disabled Americans.

Part of their plan to offset $4.5 trillion in extending tax breaks from Trump’s first term includes $715 billion in cuts to spending on Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act over the next decade.

Democrats said the proposals, which include work requirements, new limits on provider taxes and penalties for states that use the program to insure undocumented immigrants, would throw millions of vu...