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The changes in other problems included in Medicaid, SNAP, Border Security and Republican Megabill will reach the lives of millions of Texas people who have passed on Thursday. The following is more detailed about the great impact on the country.
The budget adjustment bill is an expenditure and tax package, including the president’s agenda, including major spending cuts. All polling stations (Vi -Texas), except the Republican Republican Party, voted to support the bill. The bill is now heading to the Senate.
LONE STAR repayment operation
The bill has pioneered $ 12 billion to refund the border border security efforts after the BIDEN administration began. Greg Abbott, the governor of the federal government, requested $ 11 billion for $ 12.1 billion, repaying his operational roles and southern borders, building a border barrier, and trying to prevent border crossings.
Congress’s Republican Republican has advocated for several years, but the demand for this money after President Donald Trump’s second inauguration has grown.
snap
The supplementary nutrition assistance program (typically SNAP and previously known supplementary nutritional supplements) were included in MEGABILL. According to the Food Bank Association, Texas must pay an additional $ 1 billion annually if cuts are replaced by spending. Texas.
The change in requirements to obtain SNAP benefits can mean that people with fewer than 33 million people in the United States can receive SNAP food support from average month to 2034. Parliamentary.
This bill requires the most competent adults under 65 years of age without children under 7 years of age to work, train or volunteer. Now, only the dependents under 55 years of age will have to do this for 80 hours a month to receive more than three months of snaping in three years.
The federal government now pays 50%of all SNAP benefits and administrative costs. If Megabill’s plan has not been changed, the state should start paying 5%to 25%of SNAP benefits and 75%of the program management cost in 2028. If the state does not want to pay this amount, the state can also reduce the benefits to make up for the decrease.
Medicaid
Texas is already the most suitable I didn’t buy insurance The changes included in the state of the state’s state and legislation can increase the number of people in the state without health insurance.
Many Republican Partys, including R-austin’s chip Roy representative, have forced the change of Medicaid to reduce the name “waste, fraud and abuse” in a program in which Medicaid funds for health care for most low-income Americans.
ROY has begun to support package until the final voting, calling for deeper Medicaid cuts.
The final package requires a Medicaid recipient without a child without a child must work for at least 80 hours a month by the end of 2026, attend school or volunteer, which also adds additional confirmation of qualification requirements.
According to the parliamentary budget office, the bill estimates that by 2034, more than 8 million people may not be insured.
According to Health Policy Research Organization, Texas is expected to decrease 7% of Medicaid by 2034. KFF.
Many Democrats have represented concerns that such cuts can harm low -income families and rural hospitals.
“They depend on Medicade,” said Julie Johnson spokesman for D-Farmers Branch. “I don’t understand why these Republicans continue to vote for their health care.”
Border
The Budget Coordination Act is a variety of spending provisions to support the border security and promote the hiring of additional border patrol officers.
The House of Representatives allocates more than $ 46 billion on the border wall and $ 5 billion in tariffs and border protection facilities. Another $ 4 billion has set up an additional $ 2 billion for signing and hiring bonuses with employment and training border patrols.
Inflation reduction method reduction in energy sector
The reconciliation bill aims to cut tax deductions for renewable energy, a boom in Texas.
The bill restricts some tax deductions provided by the Inflation de Conforming Act in 2022, and requires a tax deduction to encourage investment in renewable energy by requiring the project to start construction within 60 days of the bill.
In addition, this proposal will end tax deduction to purchase electric vehicles.
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