Ads Will Run in Key House Districts After Republicans Advance Budget Slashing Medicaid to Pay For Tax Breaks For the Ultra-Wealthy
Protect Our Care is launching a new round of ads targeting 11 Republican lawmakers who voted to advance a budget resolution that includes cutting nearly $1 trillion from Medicaid in order to give tax breaks to the ultra-wealthy and big corporations. This latest effort is part of Protect Our Care’s $10 million dollar “Hands Off Medicaid” campaign exposing the choice between protecting Medicaid or giving away new tax breaks for the ultra-wealthy.
Medicaid is an essential pillar of our health care system with over 70 million Americans currently covered through the program. The GOP budget would have a devastating impact on the most vulnerable Americans, including low-income seniors, children, veterans, people with serious disabilities, and people who take care of their children or elderly parents.
“Republicans are ripping away health care from their own constituents to give a tax break to billionaires and big corporations,” said Protect Our Care President Brad Woodhouse. “The consequences of cuts to Medicaid could touch nearly every household in America. By voting to advance this budget resolution, these key House Republicans are playing a dangerous game. People across the country are depending on them to do the right thing and reject these cuts to Medicaid.”
The ads will launch in the following districts: David Schweikert (AZ-01), David Valadao (CA-22), Young Kim (CA-40), Ken Calvert (CA-41), Nick LaLota (NY-01), Andrew Garbarino (NY-02), Mike Lawler (NY-17), Nick Langworthy (NY-23), Ryan Mackenzie (PA-07), Scott Perry (PA-10), and Dan Newhouse (WA-04).
Links to each of the 30-second ads can be found below:
David Schweikert (AZ-01)
David Valadao (CA-22)
Young Kim (CA-40)
Ken Calvert (CA-41)
Nick LaLota (NY-01)
Andrew Garbarino (NY-02)
Mike Lawler (NY-17)
Nick Langworthy (NY-23)
Ryan Mackenzie (PA-07)
Scott Perry (PA-10)
Dan Newhouse (WA-04)
Sample Ad Script for AZ-01
Narrator: Your representative in Congress, David Schweikert, just voted to slash our health care to help pay for massive tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires.
Over 70 million Americans count on Medicaid for their health care. And putting seniors, children with disabilities, working families, and rural hospitals at risk to provide another tax break for the wealthiest Americans is just plain wrong.
Call David Schweikert and tell him – Hands off Medicaid.
Background
- STATEMENT: Protect Our Care Calls Out Republican Vote for Draconian Cuts to Medicaid and Launches New Ads to Hold Them Accountable
- REPORT: The Republican War on Health Care: Medicaid Cuts for Millions, Tax Cuts for the Ultra-Wealthy
- Fact Sheet: Republicans Want To Rip Away Health Care From Over 72 Million Americans on Medicaid