U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-San Antonio, lashed out in a Wednesday floor speech at Republicans who are too afraid of retribution from President Donald Trump to push back against deep Medicaid cuts in the president’s budget megabill. Trump’s Big, Beautiful Bill, now being debated in the U.S. House, is expected to rip healthcare coverage away from 17 million people, according to health policy research organization KFF, making it the federal government’s largest-ever rollback of such coverage. The reductions will affect 1.7 million Texans, according to Castro’s office.
