The divide between Republicans and Democrats over the future of Medicaid was well encapsulated this week by two of Houston's congressional members during an all-night rumble that resulted in one Democrat calling U.

Republicans and Democrats grew weary in the early hours of Wednesday morning on Capitol Hill as they slogged through at-times contentious debate over provisions in President Donald Trump’s sweeping tax and spending cuts package.

Fiscal hawks are lashing out over what they say are the lack of Medicaid reforms in President Trump’s legislative package, which could thwart the House GOP’s goal of passing the legislation next

Donald Trump is back in the White House, the GOP controls Congress, and Republicans have dusted off their 2017 plans to reshape Medicaid.

The national battle over Medicaid funding has now hit home with a Congressional debate involving a local area Representative and now a mention of some local rural hospitals. There have been demonstrations across the country and locally as the GOP-led U.

The Energy and Commerce Committee's proposals to revamp Medicaid draw cheers and jeers from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle.

Lawmakers in Washington are going back and forth on a massive bill that includes potential cuts to Medicaid, the government-funded health insurance program for low-income Americans.

Hope is one of roughly 3 million Texas children who get health insurance from federal and Texas taxpayers through Medicaid. It's a program Congress is aiming to dial back to help pay for between $4 trillion and $5 trillion in tax cuts. Republicans and the Trump administration hope the tax cut package will supercharge economic growth.

Two members of Congress from Colorado will play a pivotal role in deciding the fate of Medicaid, a program that provides health care for one in five Coloradans.

LOUISVILLE As Republicans in Washington advanced a proposed Medicaid work requirement Wednesday, two Kentucky advocates speaking in Louisville disagreed on the wisdom of the policy.