Trump bill will have major impact on healthcare cybersecurity, experts warn Congress

At the outset of a Senate hearing last week on cybersecurity in the healthcare sector, Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., took a moment to implore lawmakers and witnesses to stay focused on the topic at hand — and not veer off into discussions about the impact of cuts to the sector from Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill.

Cassidy, chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, said any attempts by ranking member Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., or witnesses to steer the hearing in that direction would be “a distraction,” and at one point the Louisiana Republican accused Sanders of spreading “half truths” about the bill’s impact, angrily banging the gavel.

“This is about cybersecurity,” Cassidy said. “Thank you for [all] those who actually talked about cybersecurity. I really appreciate that.”

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