During his nearly nine-hour floor speech opposing passage of the Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jefferies used Louisiana to underscore his argument that

“Mean and cruel” — that’s how U.S. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto described Medicaid cuts in President Donald Trump’s budget bill after passage in the Senate. She gathered Nevada health care leaders and workers July 2 to talk about how the state would be affected.

One of the chief grievances that congressional Democrats have had against the One Big Beautiful Bill Act is the new work requirements that it imposes on Medicaid and Supplemental Nutrition