U.S. President Donald Trump is set to meet with top pharmaceutical executives on Thursday, a White House official confirmed. The discussions will focus on Medicare drug price negotiations, pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs),

Dan Bishop, a former House lawmaker, said he expects the White House to avoid cuts to Social Security and Medicare.

In theory, the budget, which kicks off the process of passing an extension of tax cuts enacted in 2017 and up to $2 trillion in spending cuts meant to partly offset them, could become law without significant cuts to Medicaid. But it won’t be easy.

The governor traveled to Washington Tuesday to push for the release of frozen federal funds to Illinois and to warn of pending GOP budget cut to Medicaid affecting more than 700,000 Illinois residents.