House Republicans’ sweeping tax and spending cuts package would add $2.4 trillion to the deficit over the next decade, according to the Congressional Budget Office’s analysis of the bill that GOP lawmakers narrowly approved last month.

Republicans are increasingly on the defensive over the party’s handling of Medicaid cuts in the party’s “big, beautiful bill,” underscoring how the issue has become an early flashpoint ahead of next year’s midterms.

A state that had been trending heavily toward the GOP is looking potentially competitive again, in part thanks to the senator’s gaffe.

There is pushback coming from Iowans over Senator Joni Ernst's town hall Friday.Someone in the crowd yelled that people will die from proposed Medicaid cuts and