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Taxpayers will see a number of new credits and deductions when they file their taxes in 2026. Here's when other "big beautiful" bill provisions go into effect.
With B-2s flying overhead during an Independence Day ceremony, President Donald Trump signed the Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act into law.
We see this budget for what it is, an extremist road map that takes away what people rely on to survive,” U.S. Rep. Maxwell Frost said at a news conference at the Pan American Behavioral Health
The federal budget bill requires people on Medicaid to get recertified for eligibility twice a year. The expectation is that 350,000 will lose their Medicaid coverage in Florida, according to Jonathan Chapman, president and chief executive officer of the Florida Association of Community Health Centers.
The Congressional Budget Office estimated that the House version of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act would reduce Medicaid enrollment and cause millions of people to become uninsured by 2034. It didn’t say that “5 million” of the people who are “going to lose insurance” would have “other insurance” so “they’re still insured,
The Corewell Health CEO sent out an internal memo this week warning staff to prepare for impacts to not only patients but also employees due to Medicaid cuts.
Exactly how cuts to public assistance programs in President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” will affect Minnesota is yet to be seen, though by one estimate, up to a quarter-million people in the state could lose Medicaid coverage over the next decade.
As Republicans face criticism for slashing Medicaid, Hawley tried to shift the focus to a less-noticed part of the law that will benefit victims of nuclear waste.