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Cutting off the base: How Trump’s budget hits his own voters

In rural parts of California’s Central Valley, where sun-baked highways connect towns with few doctors and even fewer hospitals, majorities of voters supported Donald Trump in the 2024 election. Now, after the passage of the “Big Beautiful Bill” — Trump’s signature federal budget reform — some of those voters are at risk of losing access to health care. That’s because the bill includes some of the deepest cuts to Medicaid in a generation. In…