The 2026 New Hampshire state budget is set to increase costs on Medicaid recipients in the state, hitting those least able to pay hardest of all.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials will be given access to the personal data of the nation’s 79 million Medicaid enrollees, including home addresses and ethnicities, to track down immigrants who may not be living legally in the United States, according to an agreement obtained by The Associated Press.
At a NH protest, speakers and attendees braved 100° temperatures to push back against GOP cuts to Medicaid that could devastate tens of thousands of families throughout the state.
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A divided Supreme Court allowed states to cut off Medicaid money to Planned Parenthood in a ruling handed down Thursday amid a wider Republican-backed push to defund the country’s biggest abortion provider.
Abortion is already excluded from coverage—the new bill is going after all health care services the clinics provide for low-income Americans.
