Trump and Republicans’ Medicaid Cuts Would Threaten the Health Care of Over 70 Million Americans To Pay For Tax Cuts for Billionaires
Washington, D.C. — After making claims that Republicans would “not touch Medicaid,” Donald Trump endorsed the Republican plan to cut between $880 billion and $2 trillion from Medicaid — threatening health care for over 70 million Americans who rely on the program.
The consequences of cuts to Medicaid would touch nearly every household in America. Hart Research polling shows strong opposition across party lines to cutting Medicaid from a majority of voters, including Trump voters, who have a favorable view of Medicaid and see it as an important source of health care. In response, Protect Our Care Chair Leslie Dach issued the following statement:
“By endorsing this Republican proposal to slash hundreds of billions from the country’s largest health insurance program, Donald Trump is putting the health care of over 70 million Americans on the chopping block. Trump knows the damage these Medicaid cuts will do – he admitted it just last night – but he is joining Republicans in Congress in their quest to rip away coverage from those who need it most. Trump and Republicans’ plan all along has been to gut Medicaid, and they will stop at nothing to devastate millions of American families so they can give billionaires another tax cut.”
Protect Our Care’s eight-figure “Hands Off Medicaid” campaign is sounding the alarm on Republicans working to slash Medicaid funding to pay for another round of tax cuts for the wealthy and big corporations. The campaign includes paid advertising, on-the-ground events, and organizing to make sure people understand the devastating consequences of Republican plans to cut health care.
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