Senate Republicans began the work this week of deciphering what exactly House Republicans’ have stuffed into President Trump’s massive

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.

The GOP budget bill is stuck in the Senate, where Republicans are having an intramural debate over how much the legislation will drive up the deficit. And on a more existential note, lawmakers are questioning what it will mean for the nation's future.

As Senate Republicans go deep into reconciliation bill-drafting mode, Medicare is increasingly coming up as a potential pay-for.

As they look for additional savings, GOP senators have discussed the possibility of cutting Medicare spending they consider to be "waste, fraud and abuse" — with Trump's blessing.