Medicaid expansion faces threat as new law squeezes state budgets

The federal government has for 15 years encouraged states to enroll more low-income adults in Medicaid. Now state legislators are scrambling as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act threatens to squeeze state budgets to such a degree that some may be forced to end Medicaid expansion altogether. 

That would leave thousands, if not millions of low-income adults without health care coverage, including many people with disabilities and adults nearing retirement age.