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Insider’s Report: House-Passed Bill Will Gut Medicaid and Hurt Millions of Older Americans
According to President Trump, “we’re not doing any cutting of anything meaningful” in what supporters call the “big, beautiful bill” that was rammed through the U.S. House of Representatives early Thursday morning with a one-vote margin.
Tell that to the millions of Americans, especially older adults, who rely on Medicaid for their basic needs. The House tax and spending bill (H.R. 1) ( [link removed] ) will slash a staggering $717 billion from Medicaid — devastating programs millions of seniors rely on. It guts long-term care, home support services, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits, and more — robbing many older Americans of the chance to age with dignity.
The GOP’s huge reconciliation bill sacrifices the health and well-being of millions of Americans to help pay for massive tax cuts that mainly benefit the wealthy and huge corporations. It’s the largest cut in Medicaid’s 60-year history and it will devastate millions of mature and older Americans.
This bill now goes to the U.S. Senate where the Trump Administration and GOP hardliners are turning up the pressure on lawmakers to quickly pass this callous bill.
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House Tax Bill Offers $4,000 Deduction for Seniors ( [link removed] )
"The original Trump proposal would have eliminated over $1 trillion in revenue from the Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds, advancing the depletion date of the Social Security Trust Funds by one year and the Medicare Trust Funds by 6 years," Max Richtman, President and CEO of the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, told ThinkAdvisor. (May 15, 2025, ThinkAdvisor, Melanie Waddell)
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How DOGE’s grand plan to remake Social Security is backfiring ( [link removed] )
Efforts by the U.S. DOGE Service to cut costs and root out fraud at the Social Security Administration have largely backfired, leading to reversed policies, service breakdowns, staff shortages and a massive claims backlog, all of which are straining the agency as it faces an unprecedented surge in retirement applications. (May 16, 2025; The Washington Post; Hannah Natanson, Lisa Rein and Meryl Kornfield)
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Social Security reminds workers about ‘resurrecting’ people wrongly declared dead ( [link removed] )
Prompted by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, the Social Security Administration is updating death records — sometimes mistakenly declaring living people dead, causing severe disruptions to their lives. (May 14, 2025, CNN, Tami Luhby)
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Social Security drops controversial anti-fraud review amid growing claims backlog ( [link removed] )
A month after instituting a controversial anti-fraud policy that sparked widespread concern among senior citizens, the Social Security Administration has quietly dropped a key piece of the measure. (May 17, 2025, CNN, Tami Luhby)
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DOGE’s Fraud Tracker at Social Security Turns Into a Massive Self-Own ( [link removed] )
Procedures implemented by the Department of Government Efficiency suggested that just two out of 110,000 calls to the Social Security Administration this spring had a “high probability” of being fraudulent, Federal Computer Week reported. (May 16, 2025, Daily Beast, Josh Fiallo)
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Cassidy cosponsors bill to support victims of Social Security identity theft ( [link removed] )
Senator Bill Cassidy (LA) introduced the “Improving Social Security’s Service to Victims of Identity Theft Act,” S. 1666, with bill sponsor U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (IA) and eight other original cosponsors, including U.S. Senators Todd Young (IN) and Maggie Hassan (NH). The bill has received endorsements from AARP, Social Security Works and the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare. (May 13, 2025, The Ripon Advance, Ripon Advance News Service)
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