A surprise holdout by ultraconservative members of the House Budget Committee Thursday forced Speaker Mike Johnson to entertain significant changes to the GOP’s sweeping domestic policy bill.

When you throw 13 million people off health insurance, when you raise co-payments for poor people, it is a death sentence,” says Senator Bernie Sanders on the Republican plan to cut Medicaid. “Thousands and thousands of low-income and working people will die because they simply will not be able to get into a doctor’s office when they need it.