Today, Donald Trump takes his failed agenda and sagging approval rating to Pittsburgh, where he’s set to host a rally after pushing his Pennsylvania Republican allies to vote against Pennsylvania’s economy and working families — from seniors, to children, to veterans and people with disabilities — by taking away their access to health care and food assistance.  

Ahead of Donald Trump’s Pittsburgh rally today, DNC Chair Ken Martin released the following statement: 

“As Trump travels to Pittsburgh today, he has done nothing but peddle a ‘billionaire first’ agenda that screws over working families across Pennsylvania. While Trump fattens the pocketbooks of America’s wealthiest, Pennsylvanians are footing the bill, with more than 300,000 Pennsylvanians set to lose their health care as costs skyrocket. Make no mistake: Trump’s out-of-touch agenda is throwing the economy into chaos, cutting jobs, raising prices, and gutting health care for working families in Pittsburgh and across the state.” 

Here’s how Trump’s disastrous agenda impacts Pittsburgh and the rest of Pennsylvania: 

Health Care: 

• Trump’s budget bill rips away Medicaid from roughly 300,000 of the Pennsylvanians who rely on the program for quality, affordable health care. 

• 21% of Pennsylvania’s population is enrolled in Medicaid or CHIP. 
• Medicaid covers 39% of Pennsylvania children.
• Trump cut nearly $500 million in public health funding for addiction recovery, pregnancy support, and other crucial local health efforts in Pennsylvania. 
• Trump’s firings and cuts at the VA are threatening care for veterans in PA, including stalling treatment for disease for more than 1,000 veterans. 
• Pittsburgh-area VA employees have been fired while even more cuts are on the chopping block.

Education: 

• Trump is threatening $762 million in Title I funding that benefits rural, disabled, and low-income kids.  
• Nearly 800,000 Pennsylvania students attend schools that receive Title I funding. 

Economy: 

• Trump’s budget would eliminate the Community Development Block Grant program, which provided $41 million in economic development funding to Pennsylvania. 
• Trump’s elimination of the Community Development Block Grant would increase costs for Pittsburgh taxpayers, who may have to make up the cost of a lost $20 million in grant funding.

• Trump’s budget would eliminate HUD’s rental assistance program, which helps 392,900 Pennsylvania residents afford housing and avoid homelessness. 
• Trump’s budget would eliminate LIHEAP, which provided about $200 million last year to help 302,000 low-income Pennsylvania residents afford their heating.  
• Trump and DOGE slashed dozens of federal contracts in Pennsylvania, leaving businesses to bear the brunt. 

Social Security: 

• Nearly 3 million Pennsylvanians rely on Social Security benefits.
• Thanks to Trump and Elon Musk’s reckless cuts, nearly 650,000 Pennsylvania seniors could be forced to travel almost an hour to their nearest Social Security field office. 

Nutrition: 

• Trump’s budget bill would slash SNAP funding by up to $300 billion, putting food assistance on the chopping block for the 2 million Pennsylvanians who rely on it to put meals on the table. 
• Almost 58% of Pennsylvania SNAP participants are in families with children.
• Trump ended two anti-hunger programs, LFPA and LFS, cutting $36 million in grant funds that allow local Pennsylvania farmers to provide fresh food to food banks and schools. 
• The greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank stands to lose nearly $5 million over the next three years.

Environment: 

• Cancelled grants and funding freezes have halted programs that combat pollution monitoring and heat protection for PA residents in the Philadelphia region.