In response to House Republicans advancing their budget to slash Medicaid and food assistance through markup, DNC Chair Ken Martin released the following statement:

“Donald Trump’s Republican Party is turning their backs on working families to suck up to billionaire donors. House Republicans just voted to push forward Trump’s plan to rip away health care from 13.7 million Americans and slash $300 billion in food assistance benefits — just to fund massive tax handouts for the ultra-wealthy. The message for House Republicans is simple: Start working for your constituents or lose your seat in the midterms.” 

House Republicans voted to put Medicaid and food assistance on the chopping block to fund Donald Trump’s tax handouts for his billionaire backers. 

The Hill: “Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Wednesday afternoon advanced legislation containing cuts to Medicaid and health care provisions — some of the most controversial and contentious provisions that will be included in the ‘big, beautiful bill’ of President Trump’s ambitious legislative agenda.

“The panel voted along party lines 30-24 after a marathon meeting that lasted more than 26 hours with just two breaks for House votes.”

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: “CBO’s early estimates show that at least 13.7 million people would lose coverage and become uninsured because of the Medicaid cuts and the ACA marketplace restrictions in this committee legislation, as well as the fact that the budget legislation does not extend expiring marketplace premium tax credit improvements.”

Politico: “House Agriculture Committee approves $300 billion in nutrition spending cuts”

“The House Agriculture Committee voted 29-25 along party lines to advance legislation that would cut as much as $300 billion in food aid spending to pay for Republicans’ domestic policy megabill and some farm bill programs. …

“The GOP proposal would create the largest overhaul in decades to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which helps more than 42 million people in the U.S. pay for food, by forcing states to share the cost of SNAP benefits.”

NBC News: “Senate Republicans released a new budget blueprint Wednesday that would pave the way for … making President Donald Trump’s 2017 tax cuts permanent.”

Medicaid cuts would rip away health care access across the country, devastating our children, seniors, and rural communities.  

ProPublica: “The Trump Administration Cracked Down on Medicaid. Kids Lost Insurance.”

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

New York Times: “Medicaid Cuts May Force Retirees Out of 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”

Bloomberg: “Rural nursing home closures are a concern for Nate Schema, president and CEO of Good Samaritan, the nation’s largest nonprofit nursing home and senior living provider.

“The society operates 105 nursing homes in eight states that serve about 10,000 residents. In more than a dozen of its rural facilities, about 70% of residents are Medicaid beneficiaries, Schema said.”

Cutting SNAP benefits — which help over 40 million Americans put food on the table — would force working families and children to go hungry. 

Center for Budget Policies and Priorities: “Millions of Low-Income Households Would Lose Food Aid Under Proposed House Republican SNAP Cuts”

“The [House] budget resolution … directs the House Agriculture Committee to cut programs in its jurisdiction by at least $230 billion through 2034, with these cuts expected to come largely or entirely from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and to be used to help pay for tax cuts for the wealthiest business owners and households. …

“Regardless of how Republican lawmakers enact a cut of this magnitude, this would slash more than 20 percent from a program that helps more than 40 million people, including 1 in 5 children, afford groceries.”