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GREENSBORO, N.C. — Vice President Mike Pence arrived in North Carolina Wednesday, landing in Charlotte before a trip up to Greensboro tonight.

The Vice President will be in Greensboro to attend a Trump Victory Event. Pence and Sen. Thom Tillis are the featured guests at a fundraiser for both the Republican National Committee and Tillis' re-election campaign.

REPUBLICAN RICHARD HUDSON LOOKS TO PREVENT ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS FROM GETTING MEDICAID: Rep. Richard Hudson, R-N.C., introduced a bill to protect federal Medicaid funding from being used to provide health coverage to undocumented immigrants. California’s Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom recently announced plans to push for Medicaid coverage for California’s undocumented immigrant population, which could require federal funding to implement the measure while California’s program Medi-Cal would shoulder the costs of the benefits provided.

(CNN) The House on Thursday passed a health care package that included several bipartisan bills to lower drug costs, but without the support of most Republicans because it also included legislation to strengthen Obamacare.

The vote was 234-183. Five Republicans voted to approve the package.

Republican representatives, most of whom would have likely supported the drug pricing bills if they were brought up alone, cried foul, saying Democratic leaders had attached the Obamacare legislation as a poison pill that forced a tough vote for the GOP.