Good morning. I'm Cody Godwin in for Taylor Wilson. Today is Wednesday, May 14th, 2025. This is the excerpt.

Today we take a closer look at the latest debate over Republican Medicaid and tax proposals,

plus how prosecutors aim to seize

much of Ditty's fortune under federal asset forfeiture laws, and Pete Rose has been removed

from Major League Baseball's ineligible list. House Republicans yesterday defended a bill that would

enact sweeping tax cuts, raise the debt ceiling, and add restrictions to benefit programs during a marathon day of committee hearings on Capitol Hill.

Three separate panels reviewed the legislation that would become part of a massive package to implement President Donald Trump's agenda.

Tensions ran high at the Energy and Commerce hearing over proposed Medicaid changes.

Republican members argued that they are trying to eliminate waste and fraud from the system in order to protect it for those who really need it.

Among the changes would be work requirements for adults enrolled under the 2010 Medicaid expansion and more frequent eligibility checks.

Democrats highlighted the stories of people on Medicaid

who could lose coverage under their proposal.

They argued that Republicans had produced a bill that would cut coverage,

even though they had in the past, claimed such cuts would not happen.

There were also protests yesterday against Medicaid cuts,

and some 26 people were arrested for crowding, obstructing, and incommoding,

according to Capitol Police. Meanwhile, the House Ways and Means Committee debated House Republicans'

broad tax plan. Their proposal would make the 2017 tax cuts and jobs acts permanent,

increase the standard deduction, increase the child tax credit, temporarily create a tax

deduction for tips in overtime through 2028, and implement an additional $4,000 tax deduction for

seniors, among other proposals. Democrats lampoon that proposal as a giveaway to the wealthiest Americans.

Republicans highlighted their provisions in the bill that would

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