Experts and advocates warn that it could have dire consequences for Alabama’s tenuous rural healthcare situation.

A provision tucked inside President Trump’s so-called “big, beautiful bill” will make it harder for thousands of aspiring doctors to finance their education as the country faces a growing shortage in that profession.

We see this budget for what it is, an extremist road map that takes away what people rely on to survive,” U.S. Rep. Maxwell Frost said at a news conference at the Pan American Behavioral Health

Thursday in Rochester, Congressman Joe Morelle spoke out against the controversial ‘Big Beautiful Bill,’ which was signed into law by President Donald Trump last week. Morelle calls the spending plan “one of the most harmful pieces of legislation” he’s seen in his career in public life.

Republicans' "big, beautiful bill" reinstated lower royalty rates for energy production, requires regular oil lease sales and phases out electric vehicle and clean energy tax credits

Sen. Thom Tillis served on the Senate Republican whip team since 2017, but after finding himself at odds with his party and the president, he walked away.

Contained in the new federal spending law formerly known as the "Big Beautiful Bill" is funding for 17 icebreakers, 21 cutters, more than 40 helicopters and six large patrol airplanes, Coast Guard officials said. It could take as long as 15 years to get the first of the large ships commissioned, according to government estimates.

Democrats are looking to run the Republican Obamacare playbook and use the One Big Beautiful Bill Act as a political cudgel heading into the 2026 midterm elections. Early polling on President Donald Trump’s signature legislative victory suggests a small fraction of adults support the bill signed into law on Friday.