What Trump's tax bill does with Medicaid, SNAP, tax breaks
The Excerpt
USA TODAY
4.4 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
USA TODAY Senior Congress Reporter Riley Beggin takes a closer look at President Donald Trump's House-approved tax bill.
The Trump administration says Harvard can no longer enroll international students.
Oklahoma will require schools to teach President Trump's 2020 election conspiracy theories.
USA TODAY Supreme Court Correspondent Maureen Groppe breaks down a divided court decision to block the creation of the nation's first religious charter school.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. blames ultra-processed foods, environmental chemicals, “overmedicalization” and more for driving chronic diseases in U.S. children, according to a commission report.
NOAA predicts a 60% chance of an above average hurricane season.
Let us know what you think of this episode by sending an email to [email protected].
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Good morning. I'm Taylor Wilson, and today is Friday, May 23rd, 2025. This is the excerpt. |
| 0:14.4 | Today, taking a closer look at the House-approved Trump tax bill, plus the Trump administration has revoked Harvard's ability to enroll international |
| 0:22.0 | students, and the Supreme Court has blocked the creation of the nation's first religious charter school. |
| 0:27.9 | The House this week passed President Donald Trump's tax bill for a closer look at what it might mean for |
| 0:32.8 | Americans. My colleague Dana Taylor spoke with USA Today's senior Congress reporter Riley Began. |
| 0:38.3 | Riley, I know you haven't had a lot of sleep lately covering the house wrangling over the spending bill into the wee hours. |
| 0:44.3 | Thanks for coming on the show. |
| 0:46.3 | Yeah, of course. |
| 0:47.3 | There's been a lot of heated negotiations regarding cuts to Medicaid and SNAP, the Food Stamp Program. Give me the broad strokes, |
| 0:56.0 | please, of what's in this bill on this front? Yeah, there are a lot of changes on those two fronts. |
| 1:03.0 | Medicaid, that is really the biggest cost saving, which, you know, also translates to the biggest |
| 1:09.4 | cuts that we see in this legislation. |
| 1:12.3 | The earliest estimates show $625 billion being cut from Medicaid. An estimated 7.6 million |
| 1:19.0 | Americans could lose their health insurance with these changes. You know, Medicaid covers 71 million |
| 1:24.6 | low-income Americans. So there's a lot of provisions of that. One of the marquee |
| 1:29.1 | things is some additional work requirements for people who are on Medicaid expansion. That's |
| 1:34.7 | primarily adults. There would be an increase in the frequency of eligibility checks to make |
| 1:39.4 | sure that people are not enrolled in multiple states or are validly enrolled. So those are some of the changes you could see on Medicaid. |
| 1:47.0 | When it comes to food assistance, we're talking about SNAP or food stamps, which provides food assistance to around 42 million Americans. |
| 1:54.0 | This is another big chunk. $300 billion would be cut from this over the next 10 years. |
| 1:59.0 | One of the biggest things is it would shift |
| 2:01.6 | more of the cost of the program to states, which could have repercussions as states try and figure |
... |
Transcript will be available on the free plan in 1 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from USA TODAY, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of USA TODAY and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.