On the three-year anniversary of the Supreme Court’s overturn of Roe v. Wade, DNC Chair Ken Martin and reproductive health care leaders held a press call to highlight Trump’s push for a backdoor abortion ban through his disastrous budget bill. 

• In Ohio: Ohio Capitol Journal: Ohio Planned Parenthood, health clinics brace for closures, plan fight ahead

Meanwhile, as Trump and Republicans work relentlessly to slash Medicaid, Trump’s handpicked Supreme Court justices delivered a blow to the program and the millions of Americans who rely on it for quality, affordable health care. 

• Nationwide: Washington Post: Supreme Court allows states to cut off Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood
• Nationwide: CNN: Supreme Court lets red states target Planned Parenthood funding
• Nationwide: Associated Press: States can block Medicaid money for health care at Planned Parenthood, the Supreme Court says

As House and Senate Republicans push forward with their deeply unpopular budget bill that cheats Americans out of their health care to enrich billionaires, Sen. Mitch McConnell has three words for Americans concerned about their health care being ripped away: “get over it.” While Republicans play political games with Americans’ lives, working families and rural hospitals brace for the devastating impacts. 

• Nationwide: NOTUS: Democrats Latch Onto Mitch McConnell’s ‘Heartless’ Medicaid Comments
• Nationwide: Newsweek: Mitch McConnell Says People Worried About Medicaid Cuts Will ‘Get Over It’
• Nationwide: NBC News: Rural communities brace for Medicaid cuts in Republicans’ big bill
• In Colorado: NPR: In this rural Colorado valley, cuts to Medicaid would have vast ripple effects
• In Missouri: CNN: ‘This is not a luxury’: Families in Trump states agonize over GOP’s proposed Medicaid cuts
• In Missouri: Missouri Independent: Federal spending bill could be ‘devastating’ for Missouri Medicaid patients, rural hospitals
• In North Carolina: News & Observer: NC woman needs Medicaid. That doesn’t make her a ‘parasite,’ her daughter says
• In Ohio: Cleveland.com: Eleven rural Ohio hospitals could close as federal lawmakers push Medicaid fee changes
• In Texas: WFAA: 15 rural Texas hospitals could close if Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ passes, Democrats warn
• In West Virginia: West Virginia Watch: Proposed Medicaid cuts would be detrimental, health leader says; 7 rural WV hospitals would close
• In West Virginia: Washington Post: In West Virginia, Medicaid is a lifeline. GOP cuts could devastate the state.