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Sahil Kapur<\/span><\/span><\/span>
A group of 12 House Republicans, including several who represent swing districts, wrote a letter to GOP leadership drawing a red line against \u201cany reduction in Medicaid coverage for vulnerable populations,\u201d as the party\u00a0considers significant Medicaid cuts<\/a>\u00a0to pay for a massive bill to pass Trump\u2019s agenda.
The signatories are: Reps. David Valadao, R-Calif.; Don Bacon, R-Neb.; Jeff Van Drew, R-N.J.; Rob Bresnahan, R-Pa.; Young Kim, R-Calif.; Robert Wittman, R-Va.; Nicole Malliotakis, R-N.Y.; Nick LaLota, R-N.Y.; Andrew Garbarino, R-N.Y.; and Jeff Hurd, R-Colo.
\u201cWe acknowledge that we must reform Medicaid so that it is a strong and long-lasting program for years to come,\u201d they wrote. \u201cWe support targeted reforms to improve program integrity, reduce improper payments, and modernize delivery systems to fix flaws in the program that divert resources away from children, seniors, individuals with disabilities, and pregnant women \u2014 those who the program was intended to help. However, we cannot and will not support a final reconciliation bill that includes any reduction in Medicaid coverage for vulnerable populations.\u201d
\u201cWe are committed to working with you to preserve Medicaid and identify responsible savings through deregulation, streamlining federal programs, and cutting administrative red tape,\u201d they added. \u201cCommunities like ours won us the majority, and we have a responsibility to deliver on the promises we made.\u201d
In the narrow House GOP majority, these members have the power to block any bill if they\u2019re unsatisfied.
As NBC News reported in February, Valadao, a top Democratic target for defeat in next year’s midterm elections,\u00a0represents the largest share of Medicaid recipients<\/a>\u00a0of any GOP-held district.
House Republicans mathematically cannot meet their own budget targets\u00a0without making hundreds of billions of dollars in cuts to Medicaid or Medicare<\/a>, according to the official scorekeeper. Those targets were included on demands from conservative hardliners who want to tackle red ink in this package.
Allan Smith<\/span><\/span><\/span>
Democrats have their first candidate in the race to unseat Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, in what will be an uphill battle in an increasingly red state.\u00a0
Nathan Sage hopes his background as a Marine and Army veteran, mechanic and local sports play-by-play announcer \u2014 as he touts in his launch video \u2014 will connect with working-class voters.
Read the full story.<\/em><\/strong><\/a>
Megan Lebowitz<\/span><\/span><\/span>
Sen. Chris Van Hollen is flying to El Salvador <\/a>today to push for the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia after the mistakenly deported man was not returned by midweek, one of the senator\u2019s conditions for embarking on the trip.
Van Hollen said in a video post from the airport that he was about to board a flight to the country\u2019s capital, adding that his goal was show the Trump administration and El Salvador\u2019s government \u201cthat we are going to keep fighting to bring Abrego Garcia home until he returns to his family.\u201d
Read the full story.<\/em><\/strong><\/a>
Megan Lebowitz<\/span><\/span><\/span>
Amanda Terkel<\/span>Politics Managing Editor<\/span><\/span><\/span>
The AFL-CIO will launch nearly 400 events nationwide over the next two weeks in an effort to push back on the administration\u2019s changes to the federal government.
The events are organized under the AFL-CIO\u2019s Department of People Who Work for a Living<\/a> campaign \u2014 a shot at Elon Musk\u2019s Department of Government Efficiency.
Some of the events, beginning during this two-week congressional recess and going until April 28, will be rallies outside federal agencies and protests outside lawmakers’ offices.
But the centerpiece will be 19 “field hearings,” according to Eddie Vale, who is consulting with the AFL-CIO. Workers from across different unions and sectors will be able to share their stories and solutions to the Trump administration’s cuts.
The testimony will ultimately be collected and distributed as a report to the White House and Congress, “to show what actual working people and communities want and need from the government,” Vale said.
Few Republican lawmakers are holding town halls during this recess, but some who have done so have already faced\u00a0angry attendees<\/a>.
Sahil Kapur<\/span><\/span><\/span>
Peter Nicholas<\/span><\/span><\/span>
Republicans are discussing an idea that has long been anathema within the party: a tax hike on the wealthy.
In a twist, members of the GOP are debating whether to allow tax rates to go up on top earners when major parts of the 2017 tax law expire at the end of this year as part of a massive bill<\/a> to pass Trump\u2019s agenda<\/a>.
Read the full story.<\/em><\/strong><\/a>
Lawrence Hurley<\/span><\/span><\/span>
Ken Dilanian<\/span><\/span><\/span>
The Trump administration has been accused of\u00a0ignoring or flat-out defying recent\u00a0federal\u00a0court orders<\/a>, including a Supreme Court decision that it must \u201cfacilitate\u201d the release of a\u00a0Maryland man who was sent in error\u00a0<\/a>to a Salvadoran prison.\u00a0\u00a0
The federal judge presiding over\u00a0Kilmar Abrego Garcia<\/a>‘s case yesterday\u00a0chastised the administration for its inaction<\/a>.
\u201cI\u2019ve gotten nothing,\u201d said Judge Paula Xinis of the U.S. District Court for Maryland. \u201cI\u2019ve gotten no real response and no real legal justification for not answering.\u201d
If Xinis or another federal judge decides that Trump and federal officials have failed to comply with their orders, what action can they take to enforce them?
Read the full story.<\/em><\/strong><\/a>
Lauren Mayk, NBC Philadelphia<\/span>Lauren Mayk is a reporter for NBC Philadelphia. <\/span><\/span><\/span>
Raquel Coronell Uribe<\/span><\/span><\/span>
Former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell said he is concerned about political violence in the wake of the arson attack on the governor\u2019s residence, where Gov. Josh Shapiro resides.
Rendell said he felt safe when he lived in the residence, between 2003 and 2011, adding that even though there were demonstrations outside the home sometimes, it was \u201cpart of the business,\u201d and there were troopers on-site around the clock.
\u201cPeople are now taking violence into their hands as a way of resolving political divisions,” Rendell told NBC’s news station in Philadelphia. “It\u2019s terrible. It\u2019s going to tear the country apart unless we do something about it.\u201d
Cody Balmer, who was charged in the arson attack at the historic governor\u2019s residence<\/a>, said he had hatred toward Shapiro<\/a> and would have attacked him directly had they come face to face.
Rendell said he hopes stronger security measures will be put in place following the attack.
\u201cI would hope that people who are more experienced in putting security around public officials would look at the house, look at the way it\u2019s built, look at the outside, look at the television,\u201d he said.
Megan Lebowitz<\/span><\/span><\/span>
Trump announced this morning that he would meet today with Japanese officials to discuss trade and military cost issues, marking the latest public overture from another country in response to steep U.S. tariffs, which the president has temporarily reduced.
“Japan is coming in today to negotiate Tariffs, the cost of military support, and ‘TRADE FAIRNESS,'” Trump said in a post to Truth Social “I will attend the meeting, along with Treasury & Commerce Secretaries. Hopefully something can be worked out which is good (GREAT!) for Japan and the USA!”
The White House previously hit Japanese imports <\/a>to the U.S. with a 24% blanket tariff.
The U.S. and Japan had previously reached a trade agreement <\/a>in 2019, during Trump’s first term. Japan is one of the top five buyers of U.S. goods in 2022, according to the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. <\/a>
Japan also hosts tens of thousands <\/a>of U.S. troops.
Megan Lebowitz<\/span><\/span><\/span>
Frank Thorp V<\/span>producer and off-air reporter<\/span><\/span><\/span>
Raquel Coronell Uribe<\/span><\/span><\/span>
Sen. Chris Van Hollen announced that he will travel to El Salvador today to push for the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia<\/a>, a man the Justice Department said it mistakenly deported<\/a>.
\u201cMy hope is to visit Kilmar and check on his wellbeing and to hold constructive conversations with government officials around his release. We must urgently continue working to return Kilmar safely home to Maryland,\u201d Van Hollen, D-Md., said in a statement last night, calling Abrego Garcia\u2019s deportation \u201cunlawful\u201d and an \u201cabduction.\u201d
Read the full story.<\/em><\/strong><\/a>
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