In response to Donald Trump planning to tour across the country to tout his disastrous billionaire-first budget, DNC Chair Ken Martin issued the following statement:

“Most people don’t organize a whistle-stop tour to celebrate kicking millions of families off their health care — but Donald Trump isn’t most people. His billionaire-first budget is wildly unpopular, and the more people learn about it, the less they like it. When he travels the country, the American people will know exactly who is responsible for ripping away their health care and taking food off their tables.”

Donald Trump’s billionaire-first budget is wildly unpopular with the American people — and yet, Trump plans to travel across the country so working families know exactly who is responsible for gutting their health care.

• An overwhelming majority of Americans, including one in three Republicans, disapprove of Trump’s billionaire-first budget
• 59% of Americans oppose the GOP’s budget bill, with only 23% saying the proposal will help their family and 49% saying it will hurt them
• 52% of Americans believe the budget proposal will make the economy worse, including one in four Republicans and 56% of independents
• 64% of Americans holdheld 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%

Senate Republicans released their portion of Trump’s billionaire-first budget bill, which includes even steeper cuts to Medicaid.

Axios: “Senate Finance Committee Republicans published their text of President Trump’s ‘one big, beautiful bill’ Monday evening, which includes major tax reforms and even steeper Medicaid cuts than the House called for.” 

Burgess Everett, Semafor: “New: The Senate will be MORE aggressive in seeking savings from Medicaid than the House reconciliation bill.”  

Politico: “The Senate Finance Committee’s newly released draft would incrementally lower the allowable provider tax in Medicaid expansion states starting in 2027 from the current 6 percent until it hits 3.5 percent in 2031. The dial-down would not apply to nursing or intermediate care facilities.

“That would be a huge departure from the House-passed bill, which would put a moratorium on states’ ability to raise their provider tax beyond the current 6 percent.” 

At Trump’s request, House Republicans are trying to rip away health care from 16 million Americans — devastating seniors and rural folks to line the pockets of their billionaire backers. 

Burgess Everett, Semafor: “CBO finds that the [GOP] reconciliation bill (10.9 million) combined with the expiration of premium tax credits and new marketplace rule (5.1 million) would result in 16 million people fewer being insured”

Politico: “The House Energy and Commerce Committee, in a 30-to-24 party-line vote, advanced the health care section of the GOP’s sweeping tax bill that would slash Medicaid spending by hundreds of billions of dollars.” 

West Virginia Watch: “Medicaid cuts could hurt older adults who rely on home care, nursing homes” 

Georgetown University Center for Children and Families: “Cuts to Medicaid Will Shift Costs to Families, Providers and Will Be Especially Harmful to Rural Communities”

Wall Street Journal: “Republicans’ tax-and-spending megabill would give more money to middle-income and high-income households while taking benefits away from low-income people, according to a Congressional Budget Office analysis released Thursday. …

“On average, according to CBO, the bottom 30% of households would come out worse off, losing household resources. Income groups above that get more resources than they would under current law, on average. The bottom 10% of households would lose about $1,600 because of benefit cuts, equal to about 3.9% of income.”