Republicans "plan to take food and health care away from the poor to subsidize tax cuts for the rich," said Catherine Rampell in The Washington Post. If that sounds "like a stale, Scroogey stereotype,

House Speaker Mike Johnson and Republicans are looking to vote this week on a budget resolution in-line with President Donald Trump’s agenda. NBC News’ Julie Tsirkin reports on how some GOP lawmakers are pleading that Medicaid and Medicare not be cut.

The House passed the budget resolution Feb. 25 in a 217-215 vote, advancing President Donald Trump's $4.5 trillion tax-cut plan. The legislation directs the Energy and Commerce Committee, which oversees Medicare and Medicaid,

The House's budget resolution seeks $2 trillion in federal savings. If the Senate adopts the resolution, lawmaker could target Medicaid savings.

Efforts by Republicans in Congress to make steep spending cuts have stirred widespread concerns that the federal government may trim expenditures on Medicaid even though President Donald Trump has previously indicated that he’s unwilling to do that.

What are Republicans thinking by supporting a proposal to strip health care from millions of vulnerable people, including potentially 770,000 in Illinois?

Budget chicanery begets more budget chicanery. About this time in 2010, Democrats were trying every procedural and accounting trick they could conjure to push ObamaCare through a restive Congress.

Speaker Mike Johnson powered a budget resolution floor vote through, overcoming threats of a revolt from swing-district Republicans.

“Medicare, Medicaid: None of that stuff is going to be touched,” he added. “We don’t have to.” Johnson has also dismissed the idea that the GOP’s budget will gut benefits for low-income people. Medicaid, he said recently, “has never been on t ...