On A Discharge Vote, Senate Rejects Trump's Rescission Package

The Senate on Wednesday (June 20) rejected President Donald Trump's rescission package, which included about $7 billion in cuts to the Children's Health Insurance Program and $800 million in cuts to CMS' innovation center, as a motion to discharge the legislation from committee failed 48-50. When the rescission package was released last month, children's advocates pushed back against the Trump administration's request to rescind $7 billion from CHIP, concerned that nearly $2 billion would be taken from a contingency fund...