Thousands of Minnesotans a year rely on NUWAY’s program that pairs addiction treatment with a monthly housing subsidy, but it might not be around much longer. The state Department of Human Services plans to halt Medicaid payments for the service on Friday,

Republican lawmakers from Minnesota in the House of Representatives voted for a budget resolution that includes slashing Medicaid funding by nearly $1 trillion in order to give tax breaks to

As a Republican proposal moves forward for sweeping cuts to Medicaid, doctors in Minnesota say it would harm “the backbone of our health care system.”

The Minnesota delegation in the U.S. House split on a GOP budget blueprint Tuesday evening that calls for deep spending cuts.

We shouldn’t allow misguided policies of Republicans in Congress to destroy Minnesotans’ moral values that are based on empathy and compassion.

Minnesota’s Republican congressional delegation all voted to approve the U.S. House’s budget proposal Tuesday night, a vote some state Republican legislators attempted to inform when they urged their federal colleagues to consider the expected harm to Minnesota from Medicaid cuts.

In Minnesota, 650,000 children are enrolled in Medicaid, or nearly half of the total. Another 125,000 are people with disabilities.

More than a dozen Republican state legislators warned U.S. Rep. Tom Emmer and other Minnesota party members in Congress against making deep Medicaid cuts, writing in a pointed letter that “this is contrary to how we Republicans respect the aged and the vulnerable.