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Referred to the Committee on Finance. (text: CR S6472)
Introduced September 9, 2025 by Sheldon Whitehouse · Last progress September 9, 2025
Urges the Senate to protect Medicare and seniors from automatic, across-the-board sequestration cuts that the Congressional Budget Office estimates would be triggered by a recent reconciliation law. The CBO estimate cited in the resolution says that law will increase the federal deficit by about $4.1 trillion between 2025 and 2034 and lead to Medicare funding reductions of roughly $45 billion in 2026 and $536 billion through 2034; the resolution warns those cuts would harm providers and programs serving older Americans and people with disabilities and calls on the Senate to safeguard Title XVIII Medicare benefits and essential social services.