Republicans could be touching the third rail on Medicaid. Story by Aaron Blake • 2mo. In one way, Tuesday night was a major victory for House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana).

The third rail Republicans can’t stop touching. Social Security and Medicare are wildly popular. So why do GOP Senate candidates keep talking about privatizing them?

But it turns out that he might just be touching the real third rail. The Republicans are raising the deficit so high that it may trigger sequestration under the PAYGO act, ...

Yeah, she went there. That used to be called touching the third rail of American politics — which means no viable candidate should even address such a thing, no matter how true it may be.

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CBS News Chicago Live. CHICAGO (CBS) – A man is dead after touching the third rail along the tracks at a CTA Brown Line station in River North Friday night. CTA officials said around 10:22 p.m ...

Republicans could be touching the third rail on Medicaid. The House-passed budget proposal pretty clearly requires cutting Medicaid, and that’s a big political problem.

The vast majority of the funds available for that committee to cut are part of Medicaid and Medicare. There are other things they could cut, but as this New York Times explainer lays out, getting ...