Protect Our Care Is Extending Its Ad Campaign Highlighting the Devastating Impact Republicans’ Medicaid Cuts Would Have on Millions of Families
View the Bannon Ads Here
View the Josephine Ads Here
Washington, D.C. – As Republicans stall their wildly unpopular budget reconciliation, Protect Our Care is extending its television and digital ad campaign to highlight widespread opposition to the Republican plan to slash billions from Medicaid. The delay came as the committees were preparing to outline how the House GOP will slash Medicaid and take health care away from tens of millions of Americans to fund tax breaks for billionaires and big corporations. Facing pushback and public outcry over their scheme to gut Medicaid, Republicans have continually pushed falsehoods and misled their constituents.
The ads, which are part of Protect Our Care’s ongoing 10-million-dollar “Hands Off Medicaid” campaign, target 10 key Representatives who Mike Johnson and Donald Trump are squeezing to deliver tax breaks for the rich at the expense of everyday Americans. The first ad features Trump loyalist and MAGA cheerleader Steve Bannon, warning Republicans to be “careful” because there are “a lot of MAGAs on Medicaid.” In the second ad, Josephine, a conservative voter and grandmother to a little boy with special needs, speaks about how cuts to Medicaid would cause pain for her family and millions of others.
“This GOP markup meltdown is proof that Republicans are unraveling because they know the consequences of making the largest Medicaid cuts in history,” said Protect Our Care President Brad Woodhouse. “If they move forward, they are playing a dangerous game with the health and livelihoods of tens of millions of people, including children, people with disabilities, seniors, people fighting cancer, and working families. It’s not too late for these members – who know that Medicaid cuts will hurt their constituents and cost them at the ballot box – to put a stop to this and put the needs of regular folks above billionaires and the corporate elite.”
Each of these ads are running in the following districts: David Schweikert (AZ-01), David Valadao (CA-22), Young Kim (CA-40), Ken Calvert (CA-41), Nick LaLota (NY-01), Andrew Garbarino (NY-02), Mike Lawler (NY-17), Ryan Mackenzie (PA-07), Rob Bresnahan (PA-08), and Dan Newhouse (WA-04).
Links to each of the 30-second Steve Bannon ads can be found below:
David Schweikert (AZ-01)
David Valadao (CA-22)
Young Kim (CA-40)
Ken Calvert (CA-41)
Nick LaLota (NY-01)
Andrew Garbarino (NY-02)
Mike Lawler (NY-17)
Ryan Mackenzie (PA-07)
Rob Bresnahan (PA-08)
Dan Newhouse (WA-04)
Sample Ad Script for AZ-01:
Fox News Host: “In the bill the Republicans are putting forward, there will be an eight-hundred-eighty billion dollar cut to Medicaid.”
Narrator: Congress wants to cut Medicaid….
Woman at Town Hall: “I’m asking you today, please do not cut the federal Medicaid budget.”
Narrator: ….and people aren’t happy about it.
Man at Town Hall: “You don’t get to take our healthcare – get off me! You don’t get to do this to us!”
Steve Bannon: “Medicaid you’ve got to be careful, cause a lot of MAGA’s on Medicaid. I’m telling you. If you don’t think so, you’re dead wrong.”
Narrator: Call Congressman Schweikert and tell him to stop these cuts to Medicaid.
Links to each of the 30-second Josephine ads can be found below:
David Schweikert (AZ-01)
David Valadao (CA-22)
Young Kim (CA-40)
Ken Calvert (CA-41)
Nick LaLota (NY-01)
Andrew Garbarino (NY-02)
Mike Lawler (NY-17)
Ryan Mackenzie (PA-07)
Rob Bresnahan (PA-08)
Dan Newhouse (WA-04)
Sample Ad Script for PA-08:
Josephine:
My grandson Elijah is the apple of everyone’s eye, everyone that meets Elijah loves him.
But Elijah does have special needs.
If Congress cuts Medicaid, this will affect millions of families, not just children like Elijah.
How many people will live in pain?
I voted Republican last fall, but I don’t understand why they’re doing this
Congressman Bresnahan, we’re counting on you to stop these cuts to Medicaid.