{"id":14522,"date":"2025-07-16T19:36:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T19:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/14522\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T19:36:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T19:36:07","slug":"about-half-of-voters-identify-that-trumps-budget-law-will-decrease-health-care-coverage-or-increase-the-deficit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/14522\/","title":{"rendered":"About Half of Voters Identify That Trump\u2019s Budget Law Will Decrease Health Care Coverage or Increase the Deficit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Earlier this month, President Donald Trump signed into law his 2025 budget bill, which will have massive consequences for both health insurance access and the federal deficit. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbpp.org\/research\/health\/by-the-numbers-house-bill-takes-health-coverage-away-from-millions-of-people-and\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">estimates<\/a> from the Congressional Budget Office, 16 million Americans are set to lose health insurance as a result of the bill\u2019s deep cuts to Medicaid, as well as other changes to the Affordable Care Act marketplace.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">In a new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filesforprogress.org\/datasets\/2025\/7\/dfp_obbb_knowledge_check.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">poll<\/a>, Data for Progress finds that while a majority of voters (53%) say the bill will cause Americans to lose health insurance coverage, only 38% think that more than 10 million Americans will lose coverage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">An additional 31% of voters believe that Americans will gain coverage or that coverage will remain the same, and 16% of voters are unsure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier this month, President Donald Trump signed into law his 2025 budget bill, which will have massive consequences&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[97,252,253],"class_list":["post-14522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}