On Capitol Hill, police arrested more than two dozen people Tuesday as they protested Republican plans to gut Medicaid and other programs for the poor and working class to help cover the cost of $4.5 trillion in tax breaks for the rich. An emerging Republican budget proposal intends to cut social spending by $880 billion largely by slashing Medicaid, which the Congressional Budget Office estimates would leave 8.6 million people without healthcare over the next decade. Protesters lined the halls outside a meeting of the House Energy and Commerce Committee Tuesday, while inside a demonstrator was led away by police after disrupting the hearing.

Protester: “You will kill me! I’m HIV-positive for 20 years. I have survived on my meds that are $10,000 a month!”