ES and cuts are going to lead to the loss of service and the possibility that some of the country's 760 at risk financially strapped rural hospitals could be forced to close, hundreds of them. That's why some Republican senators like Susan Collins fought for a $50 billion fund for rural hospitals. Although that may still not be enough to prevent some from closing, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act is a big step backward for this country's health care system.For more on this, I'm joined by Robert Rice. She's a ...

I think there's a lot to be said about pushing forward a proactive policy agenda. But look, we exist in the short term. We live life in the short term. Politics exists in the short term.In the future, when we're running a Democratic presidential campaign, we need a vision for the future. But the dominant political question of today is, are you for what these guys are doing. Are you against it.Do you like your life right now, or do you think it could be better if the current people in power got pushed out. t ...

Joining us now, Republican Congressman of South Dakota, Dusty Johnson. Thanks for coming on the program. Uh, Congressman, when the speaker says he is working through, what does that mean.What are your observations about getting this bill to what where I know you want it to be, which is the finish line. I mean, the holdouts are concerned about good policy. They want to make sure that this bill, particularly in areas related to Medicaid, move our country in the right place.I spent two hours at the White House ...

What does it mean for motans. Uh, this bill, it's a nightmare like every other state. One out of two people in my state is on Medicaid if they're in assisted living.So, think about that. So, this they are literally giving tax cuts to the wealthiest, $400,000 tax cut to multi-millionaires on the backs of people in assisted living, kids who are getting kicked off of food assistance. And it is, as just pointed out correctly, over $4 trillion in debt, which is going to mean increased mortgage rates.It's going t ...

OR CALL NOW. >> THE MARATHON ON THE HILL CONTINUES, AND WE DON'T KNOW EXACTLY WHEN THE SENATE WILL FINALLY HAVE A FINAL ANSWER ON THE BUDGET BILL CRITICAL TO DONALD TRUMP AND HIS VISION FOR HIS SECOND TERM, OR WHAT IT WILL BE. I WANT TO BRING IN SAHIL KAPUR, WHO IS ON CAPITOL HILL FOR US.SAHIL, WHAT SHOULD WE BE WATCHING FOR. WHAT ARE YOU WATCHING FOR RIGHT NOW. >> CHRIS, WE ARE A FEW.>> HOURS INTO THIS SO-CALLED VOTE A RAMA PROCESS. THE BIG THING I'M WATCHING FOR IS THESE AMENDMENTS THAT ARE COMING UP. HOW ...

Democrats forcing the Senate clerk to spend nearly 16 hours reading every word of what President Donald Trump has dubbed his big beautiful bill. The following that bill could add more than $3 trillion to the deficit over the next 10 years. The GOP wants to overhaul social programs like SNAP, also known as food stamps, and Medicaid.The cuts to Medicaid are what led North Carolina Republican Senator Tom Tillis to vote against moving the bill forward, prompting threats from President Trump to meet with primary ...

Joining us now, we have Axios chief economic correspondent Neil Irwin and NBC News senior business correspondent Christine Romans and Basil Michael is still with us. So I appreciate you all being here. Let's go ladies first with you, shall we.Okay, so Christine, um the cuts included in this bill, they're going to target not only SNAP, but Medicaid to what extent. Well, you're talking about 560ish billion dollars over a decade. And you look at the Congressional Budget Office scoring of this, and that's the o ...