What the budget bill’s public health cuts mean for public safety

The ongoing tax and budget negotiations on Capitol Hill amd the "one big, beautiful bill” that knits together Republican spending priorities are exposing deep rifts within the GOP, including a sharp divide over how much to cut Medicaid and food assistance. 

Much attention has centered on how these cuts would impact public health and well-being, including potentially devastating effects for mental health and opioid treatment, the costs of nursing homes, income inequality and child hunger.