House passes Trump-backed bill, tightening his grip on the Republican Party despite backlash over debt and cuts to Medicaid.

Democrats have been blasting President Donald Trump’s tax-and-spending bill for months, but many Republicans have remained silent or have back their party’s leader. In Connecticut,

For months, more than a dozen Hill Republicans have been sounding the alarm about the steep Medicaid cuts in President Donald Trump’s sprawling agenda package, which is now just hours away from becoming law.