On Friday, president Donald Trump signed his sweeping spending package into law. The bill significantly cuts back on federal safety-net programs and increasing funds for aggressive immigration enforcement.
The law will significantly also cut taxes, building on the 2017 tax cuts during Trump’s first term, and add new restrictions to Medicaid, which provides healthcare to low-income and disabled people. Researchers estimate that the Medicaid cutbacks will leave as many as 11.8 million people without healthcare. But proponents of the law say the Medicaid changes are designed to root out waste and abuse.
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates the bill would add more than $3 trillion to the federal deficit over the next decade. According to a June Pew Research poll, nearly half of the adults surveyed opposed the bill. Roughly a third of those surveyed supported it, and a fifth said they weren’t sure.
But now that the bill is officially law, what should you expect as some of its provisions begin to roll out?
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