The Republican budget bill proposed by the House of Representatives could enforce major changes to Medicaid and SNAP, but there are also significant updates to federal student loans included in the bill.

Donald Trump visited Capitol Hill to strong-arm Republicans in the House of Representatives into supporting a budget-reconciliation bill. Afterwards Mike Johnson, the House speaker, struck a tentative deal with moderate Republicans in blue states to raise a cap on a deduction taxpayers can make to federal income tax for having paid state and local taxes.