Trump's 'big, beautiful bill' clears key committee after contentious fight in dead of night

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : On Tuesday morning, Trump visited the Capitol to make the case for the passage of the bill.
41% : Conservatives wanted steeper cuts and changes to Medicaid, while Republicans from states with Democratic governments wanted to restore a tax deduction.
40% : But they are laser-focused on giving these tax breaks to billionaires and cutting Medicaid.
36% : " But an estimate from the Congressional Budget Office found that if Congress passed all the changes put in place during the mark-ups in committee, 7.6 million people could lose their Medicaid coverage, and an additional 3.1 million could lose coverage they receive through the 2010 health-care law, also known as the Affordable Care Act or Obamacare. Democrats for their part criticized the rushed process.
28% : The objections led to a last-minute meeting at the White House with Trump, House Speaker Mike Johnson and members of the Freedom Caucus.
28% : " Rep. Jim McGovern, the top Democrat on the Rules Committee, dismissed Trump's remarks about Medicaid.
25% : It would also extend the 2017 tax cuts that Trump signed into law.
21% : Trump insisted that the legislation would not make sweeping changes to Medicaid, the program meant for poor people, pregnant women, children and people with disabilities, as well as many elderly in nursing homes.
19% : "it's clear that they know that gutting Medicaid is horrible for the country," New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez told The Independent.
15% : But Reps. Chip Roy of Texas and Ralph Norman of South Carolina of the right-wing House Freedom Caucus voiced their frustrations that the bill did not go far enough on spending cuts, despite the fact they won a major concession in moving up work requirements for Medicaid.
9% : The machinations of Johnson and Trump to pressure conservatives showed the urgency to pass the president's signature piece of legislation.

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