Republicans are seeking to limit a tax loophole that gives states more federal matching funds. Many state budgets could be hurt.

The proposals from Republicans keep in place the current $10,000 deduction of state and local taxes, called SALT, drawing quick blowback from GOP lawmakers from New York and other high-tax states.

The Senate Finance Committee on Monday released its version of the GOP’s package that calls for enacting sweeping cuts to Medicaid and preventing a multi-trillion dollar tax hike on Americans.

The Medicaid cuts passed by the House would result in anywhere between 8,000 and 25,000 preventable deaths annually, researchers found. These estimates may be conservative because they assume that states would make up half of any Medicaid shortfalls.

A new study examines the potentially fatal impacts of Medicaid cuts in the new Republican-backed spending bill.

Republicans’ proposed cuts to Medicaid, the federal program that provides health coverage to poor Americans, could leave hundreds of thousands of Pennsylvanians without health insurance and force rural hospitals and medical centers that cater to vulnerable communities to shut their doors,