The Biden administration’s agenda, which sought to provide Medicaid-funded emergency services to undocumented immigrants, has cost federal and state taxpayers more than $16.2 billion, according to Congressional Budget Office estimates.

Many Republican lawmakers and conservative policy officials who want to scale back the joint state-federal health program are using charged language to describe it.

Congress may have to implement Medicaid cuts to reach its budget targets. That could include new work requirements in order to obtain coverage.

Republican leaders in Congress assert they do not plan to cut Medicaid, but Democrats are pushing back, claiming those statements aren't credible. Here's why.