This is the March 5 edition of the Bluegrass Politics newsletter. Sign up for free and get this delivered straight to your inbox every Wednesday morning. A number of high-profile bills are finally making moves in the General Assembly,

In 2010, Democratic President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act gave states the right to expand their Medicaid programs to include the “working poor” — able-bodied adults who earned up to 138% of the federal poverty line. In Kentucky, that means up to $20,784 a year for an individual or $43,056 for a household of four.

Will state employees have to return to the office? What will become of Gov. Andy Beshear’s pardon powers? This legislative session could decide.

A bill that would create a Kentucky version of the Department of Government Efficiency, known as DOGE, is moving forward in the state Capitol.

The budget resolution passed by the U.S. House on Tuesday has the potential to hurt hundreds of thousands of Kentuckians.

An investigation by the Attorney General’s Office of Medicaid Fraud and Abuse Control led to five people being indicted in the Jefferson Circuit Court. The investigation began when the office received a complaint about possible fraud.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Five people were in court on Monday after being indicted on fraud charges in Louisville, according to a press release from the Kentucky Attorney General's Office. An investigation by the Attorney General’s Office of Medicaid Fraud and Abuse Control resulted in the indictment of five people in Jefferson Circuit Court.

Louisiana, Kentucky, West Virginia and Arkansas were among 7 states with more than 25 percent of their population on Medicaid.

An investigation conducted by the Attorney General’s Office of Medicaid Fraud and Abuse Control resulted in the indictment of five individuals by a Jefferson Circuit Court

Looming federal Medicaid cuts could shift a massive financial burden to state governments, potentially requiring them to make up between $700 billion and $1. 1 trillion in funding over the next decade,

In its 60 years, Medicaid has swelled from a small program that provided medical care to poor Americans receiving cash assistance to the largest source of public insurance. It covers 72 million Americans, about one-fifth of the population. It pays for about half of all nursing care in the United States, and 40 percent of all births.