We celebrate moms on Mother’s Day; Medicaid cuts undermine them the rest of the year

We celebrate mothers one Sunday a year. But last July 4, the federal government showed us what it actually thinks of them.That was the day President Donald Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act into law. It is expected to cut roughly $1 trillion from Medicaid over the next decade, which would make it the largest rollback of federal healthcare in American history.In August 2025, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimated that the bill would raise the number of uninsured people by...