As part of their effort to pass a massive tax, immigration and spending cuts package, House Republicans are eyeing plans to shave billions from the federal budget. Some of those cuts could affect Medicaid and the related Children’s Health Insurance Program.

House Republicans are scrounging to come up with as much as $1.5 trillion in cuts across federal health, food stamp and other programs to offset the revenue lost for some $4.5 trillion in tax breaks.

President Donald Trump’s “big beautiful bill” is running into a wall in the sharply divided House Republican conference, with tensions spiking over Speaker Mike Johnson’s handling of the party’s biggest sticking point: overhauling Medicaid.