Every week during Utah’s legislative session, The Salt Lake Tribune’s political reporters and columnists chat about the hottest topics of the week. The following is a lightly edited transcript of their conversation.
Taylor Stevens (government reporter): Welcome to this week’s Trib Caucus Slack chat, which will be convening weekly during the 2019 legislative session. We’re 10 days in (out of 45) and already the Senate has approved a rewrite of a Medicaid expansion plan and state lawmakers have passed a bare-bones budget to keep the government going.
Let’s start with what’s arguably been the biggest story of the session so far: Medicaid.