Ahead of JD Vance’s visit to Pennsylvania to tout the Trump administration’s disastrous billionaire-first budget, DNC Chair Ken Martin released the following statement:
“JD Vance is heading to Pennsylvania to remind working families who’s responsible for gutting their jobs, health care, and food assistance: Donald Trump. While Vance attempts to do damage control for Trump’s unpopular billionaire-first budget, Americans are already drowning in sky-high prices driven by Trump’s reckless trade war. Pennsylvania businesses have already lost a total of $1.6 billion in revenue, thanks to Trump. The bottom line: Trump will always prioritize the ultra-wealthy over the American people — and now he’s sending Vance to the Keystone State just to rub it in.”
Donald Trump’s billionaire-first budget is wildly unpopular with the American people — and yet, Vance is traveling to Pennsylvania to remind working families who’s responsible for this disastrous bill.
- An overwhelming majority of Americans, including one in three Republicans, disapprove of Trump’s billionaire-first budget
- 61% of Americans oppose the GOP’s budget bill, with only 16% saying the proposal will help their family
- 52% of Americans believe the budget proposal will make the economy worse, including one in four Republicans and 56% of independents
- 64% of Americans hold an unfavorable opinion of the GOP’s tax and budget bill, including 34% of Republicans
- When people hear about the bill’s drastic health care cuts, support shrinks and opposition grows — including among Trump’s own supporters
- After being told that the bill would decrease funding for local hospitals, favorability of the bill falls to 21% while unfavorability rises to 79%
Trump’s budget will devastate working Pennsylvanians — tanking manufacturing and ripping away their food assistance and health care.
- Nearly 484,000 Pennsylvanians will lose health insurance
- 143,000 Pennsylvanians are at risk of losing food assistance
- Nearly 58,000 Pennsylvanians could lose their job
- The median household in Pennsylvania will lose over $300 from Trump’s billionaire-first budget alone. Combined with Trump’s reckless tariff agenda, the median household will lose over $1,600 annually
- Five rural hospitals in Pennsylvania are at risk of closing
- Pennsylvanians’ electricity bills will rise by 8.1%
- Trump’s reckless tariffs have already cost Pennsylvania businesses $1.6 billion in revenue
REMINDER: Trump and the GOP’s budget is a direct attack on working families. His budget:
- Rips away health care from 17 million Americans through over $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid, Medicare, and the Affordable Care Act — including the largest cut to Medicaid in American history
- Puts over 300 rural hospitals at risk of shutting down, ripping away critical, lifesaving care from hundreds of rural communities across the country
- Forces at least 1 in 4 nursing homes to close their doors
- Puts roughly 5 million Americans — about 1 in 8 SNAP participants — at risk of losing food assistance
- Cost farmers nearly $23 billion in revenue
- Endangers our communities by making it easier to buy dangerous firearms and silencers
- Adds $3.4 trillion to the national debt, while revenues fall by $4.47 trillion
- Eliminates 1.2 million jobs by 2029 — predominantly in health care and food-related sectors — through cuts to SNAP and Medicaid
- Puts 1.75 million construction jobs at risk — with unions warning, “this stands to be the biggest job-killing bill in the history of the country”
- Puts 2 million clean energy jobs at risk
- Costs state economies $154 billion in GDP
- Plummets local and state tax revenue by $12.2 billion
- Could worsen inflation and trigger a financial crisis
- Increases household energy costs by hundreds of dollars across the country
