The bill includes stronger restrictions on Medicaid, which provides health care coverage to over 70 million low-income and disabled Americans, including 1.72 million Coloradans.

One health policy professor said cutting Medicaid and similar programs "will be devastating" to millions of Americans.

In an event held on the White House lawn on the Independence Day holiday, President Donald Trump signed a bill that would provide tax breaks and cut Medicaid and SNAP programs.