House Passes Budget That Cuts Medicaid

Friday April 29, 2005 2:46 AM

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By MARY DALRYMPLE

Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - The House narrowly passed a $2.6 trillion budget Thursday evening that would cut back the Medicaid health care program for the poor for the first time since 1997 in a step toward trimming federal deficits.