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Today is Wednesday, February 26th, and you're listening to the morning announcements presented

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The House of Representatives voted late last night to pass Donald Trump's budget blueprint for

one big bill, which is quite controversial, shall we say, for its cuts to Medicaid, food stamps,

and rich people's taxes to the tune of several trillion dollars. That would mean cutting health care

for 70 million low-income and disabled Americans. House Speaker Mike Johnson pushed for this vote,

despite objections of his caucus, and it ended up passing by a vote of 217 to 215.

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