One of the biggest questions surrounding Senate Republicans’ version of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act concerns the fate of Medicare. Earlier this month, GOP lawmakers were reportedly considering reforms aimed at reducing waste, fraud and abuse in the entitlement as a way to deliver savings for taxpayers.

But as the bill has taken shape in the last few days, Senate Republicans appear to have lost their appetite for tightening the federal purse strings for Medicare.

The conventional wisdom is that any changes to the program would come at too high a political cost for Republicans. But improper payments have been rampant in Medicare for too long.

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