Michiganders are bracing for consequences after President Donald Trump signed Republican-led legislation to cut federal funding for Medicaid.
From slashing health care and food assistance to cutting clean energy jobs, Trump’s budget will devastate Michigan—and seven GOP lawmakers helped make it law.
Health care experts call on Congress to stand against harmful Medicaid cuts in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
With US House Republicans poised to advance President Donald Trump’s “one big, beautiful” budget bill into law this week, Michiganders are again urging their representatives in Congress to reject the plan—or else risk 500,000 people losing health care coverage statewide.
Paula Bowman and her nephew were among hundreds of people who rallied at the Michigan Capitol on Wednesday evening to oppose President Donald Trump’s so-called “big, beautiful” bill, which threatens to gut up to nearly $800 billion in federal funding from the program over the 10 years.
Michigan has its second measles outbreak of the year.
Doug Peterson, local Michigan resident, discusses universal healthcare and urges people to come out to the streets to rally and show their dissatisfaction with the current Medicaid plans.
For Sarah Abend, Medicaid isn’t a policy debate. It’s about a “moral obligation” to ensure everyone has access to health care—including teachers, artists, and service workers.
Dawn Calnen, the executive director of the Arc of Oakland County, says Republican-led cuts to Medicaid could force people with disabilities out of their communities and back into institutions.
State Rep. Carrie Rheingans says Republicans in Congress are pushing for cuts to Medicaid that “no one voted for”—cuts that would close rural hospitals and nursing homes.
