Tami Luhby - Senior Writer
Tami Luhby
Senior Writer
Tami Luhby covers health care policy, including the Affordable Care Act, Medicaid and Medicare, as a senior writer for CNN. She also writes about Social Security, safety net programs, the federal budget and tax policy.
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Senate Republicans unveil plan for cuts to Medicaid and taxes in Trump agenda bill
Jun 17, 2025
The Senate Finance Committee on Monday released its version of the GOP’s package that calls for enacting sweeping cuts to Medicaid and preventing a multi-trillion dollar tax hike on Americans.
Senate GOP aims to pare back proposed food stamp work requirements for parents in Trump megabill
Jun 12, 2025
The Senate Agriculture Committee is proposing some notable changes to the controversial food stamp provisions in the House-approved version of Republicans’ megabill.
US citizens and legal immigrants would be swept up in GOP drive to keep ‘illegal aliens’ from getting government benefits
Jun 11, 2025
Republicans say they’re targeting government benefits for undocumented immigrants, but US citizens are likely to be impacted.
CFPB enforcement lead resigns, slams ‘attack’ on core mission in departure email
Jun 11, 2025
Cara Petersen, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s acting enforcement director, resigned from the agency on Tuesday. In an email to colleagues announcing her decision, Petersen slammed the Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle the agency, which was established as a banking watchdog following the 2008 global financial crisis.
Supreme Court restores DOGE’s access to sensitive Social Security data and says it doesn’t have to turn over documents
Jun 7, 2025
The Supreme Court handed the Department of Government Efficiency a pair of significant wins on Friday, allowing the entity to access sensitive Social Security data for millions of Americans while simultaneously pausing an effort to look into whether it is subject to a key transparency law.
House GOP ‘big, beautiful bill’ would increase the deficit by $2.4 trillion, CBO says
Jun 5, 2025
House Republicans’ sweeping tax and spending cuts package would add $2.4 trillion to the deficit over the next decade, according to the Congressional Budget Office’s analysis of the bill that GOP lawmakers narrowly approved last month.
Judge pauses Homeland Security’s move to nix TSA officers’ union contract
Jun 2, 2025
A federal judge on Monday paused the Department of Homeland Security’s effort to end the collective bargaining agreement covering tens of thousands of transportation security officers at airports.
Trump returns to Supreme Court with emergency appeal over mass firings
Jun 2, 2025
The Trump administration returned to the Supreme Court on Monday to ask the justices to reverse a lower court order that has blocked mass firings and major reorganizations at federal agencies, a case that could have enormous implications for the president’s power to reshape the federal government.
Republicans want to add work requirements to Medicaid. Even some recipients with jobs are concerned
May 31, 2025
Without Medicaid, Joanna Parker would have a much tougher time holding down a job.
Are you concerned about Republicans’ proposed changes to Medicaid? Tell us about it
May 30, 2025
Congressional Republicans are considering making some big changes to Medicaid, which provides health insurance to more than 71 million low-income Americans.
Trump administration bans agencies from considering race or gender in hiring process
May 30, 2025
The Trump administration on Thursday issued new guidelines barring federal agencies from considering race or gender in the hiring process.
What’s in Trump’s ‘big, beautiful’ bill that passed the House
May 28, 2025
The House GOP narrowly passed its massive tax and spending cuts package ahead of its Memorial Day deadline, sending President Donald Trump’s “one big, beautiful bill” over to the Senate, where it will likely face many changes.
‘It’s just devastating’: Federal workers grapple with canceled health insurance, bungled benefits after Trump’s layoff chaos
May 26, 2025
Current and former federal employees are struggling to get their workplace benefits amid President Donald Trump’s chaotic efforts to reduce the size of the US government.
How Trump’s megabill transfers wealth in the US
May 24, 2025
It took intense lobbying from President Donald Trump, an all-nighter, and a vote on a bill for which many people did not yet have a clear grasp of the final changes, but House Republicans got it done this week. They passed their version of the “one big, beautiful bill,” a behemoth that pairs tax cuts with new provisions that will push people off Medicaid and food assistance.
Millions could lose food assistance under GOP’s ‘big, beautiful bill,’ CBO says
May 23, 2025
Millions of low-income Americans, including families with children, could lose their food stamp benefits under House Republicans’ newly passed tax and spending cuts package, according to a Congressional Budget Office analysis released Thursday.
House GOP lawmakers are proposing nearly $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid and food stamps. Here’s who could be impacted
May 22, 2025
House Republicans are pushing to slash at least $1 trillion from two of the nation’s bedrock safety net programs, Medicaid and food stamps, as part of their sweeping package aimed at enacting President Donald Trump’s agenda. If the legislation is approved, millions of Americans could lose access to these benefits due to this historic pullback in federal support.
About
Tami Luhby covers health care policy, including the Affordable Care Act, Medicaid and Medicare, as a senior writer for CNN. She also writes about Social Security, safety net programs, the federal budget and tax policy. She has covered presidential candidates’ health care and economic policy proposals since the 2008 election.
An explanatory writer, Luhby focuses on informing readers of the importance and impact of policy decisions made by Congress and presidential administrations.
Before joining CNN in early 2008, Luhby was a personal finance columnist at Newsday and covered retail banking for Crain’s New York Business. She teaches at Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism, from which she graduated in 1997.
A lifelong Bronx resident, she is also a triathlete and marathon runner.
