Fortune February 16, 2025
Billy House, Bloomberg

A quiet rebellion among Republicans representing working-class and low-income areas against President Donald Trump’s legislative agenda has picked up some powerful new allies: US hospitals and conservative agitator Steve Bannon.

The party’s leaders have worked to placate budget hawks and Republicans in high-tax and high-income areas who have dominated the GOP debate over the extension of Trump’s 2017 tax cuts and the corresponding cost-cutting crusade led by billionaire Elon Musk, Trump’s most prominent adviser.

Now the party’s biggest target — the Medicaid health-care system...

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Topics: Congress / White House, Govt Agencies, Health System / Hospital, Insurance, Medicaid, Provider
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