Senate panel navigates delicate compromises on Medicaid, taxes in latest chunk of Trump's megabill

A Senate sheet charged with immoderate of the astir hot-button portions of President Donald Trump’s "big, beauteous bill" unveiled its information of the gargantuan bundle connected Monday.

The Senate Finance Committee, which has jurisdiction implicit taxation policy, Medicaid and a slew of different items baked into the House GOP’s mentation of the bill, released its substance arsenic Republicans sprint to decorativeness enactment connected the 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 with concern leaders astatine the 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 with their legislation, fixed the propulsion and propulsion surrounding divisive cuts to Medicaid, an summation to the authorities and section taxation (SALT) deduction headdress and different provisions successful the House’s mentation of the bill.

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

"I look guardant to continued coordination with our colleagues successful the House and the Administration to present President Trump’s bold economical docket for the American radical arsenic rapidly arsenic possible," helium said. 

While House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., pleaded with Senate leaders to alteration the measure arsenic small arsenic imaginable aft narrowly passing the measure successful the House, peculiarly connected the compromises helium reached connected SALT and Medicaid, the Senate has vowed to permission its imprint connected the package. 

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Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., speaks with reporters astir his plans to beforehand President Donald Trump's spending and taxation bill, astatine the 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 the precocious chamber, peculiarly astir Medicaid tweaks to supplier payments and an summation to the SALT headdress to $40,000 — a alteration needed to ram the measure done the House, but 1 Senate Republicans dislike.