After the worst Republican night in years, the explanations came fast: messaging, Biden, Trump's tone, and 'Jesus Christ could have run and would have lost.' All five of these Republicans voted for Trump's budget bill. Voters got the bills for it, not the talking points.
The day after a Republican wipeout, Rep. Austin Scott told a Georgia TV station that Americans 'voted for crazy' and blamed Republicans who stayed home. JD Vance says Republican voters showed up and left over the war and the cost of living.
Warren County, Pennsylvania, sits in Rep. Glenn Thompson's district. Its hospital CEO estimates more than 1,100 people will lose Medicaid eligibility under the budget bill Thompson voted for, 39% of its marketplace enrollees have dropped coverage, and patients now travel 20 miles or more to give birth.
In a video his campaign leaders tried to block, Sen. Roger Marshall said his involvement in a patient's bill ended once it went to a collection agency. The New York Times found about half the lawsuits were filed in his name and his lawyers repeatedly requested arrest warrants.
In a debate, Rep. Gabe Evans said 12,000 more Coloradans are on Medicaid than a year ago. That's true, and misleading: the state forecasts enrollment falling by about 48,000 next fiscal year, after the cuts in Trump's budget bill start in January.
The New York Times reports Trump's EEOC plans to narrow the rule behind the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act as soon as this month, possibly cutting the list of covered conditions and widening religious exemptions. In 2021, 101 House Republicans voted against the bill, and 59 of them are on this site.
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Kevin Kiley voted for a federal bill that banned the state tax used to fund Medi-Cal, which over 14 million Californians rely on to see a doctor.
All three Virginia Republicans issued press releases celebrating Virginia's $189.5 million Rural Health Transformation grant. All three voted for the budget bill that created it, which Virginia's Medicaid agency estimated will cost the state's health facilities $26 billion in federal payments. A Shenandoah Valley health system closed three clinics, naming that law.
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Tom Cotton went home to Arkansas and gave a nice speech about how "important" Medicaid is.
