House Energy and Commerce Committee Is Planning to Slash Medicaid and Rip Health Care From Millions
Tomorrow, Representative Tom Kean Jr. (NJ-07) will meet with his colleagues on the House Energy and Commerce Committee to advance the GOP budget, which includes the largest Medicaid cuts in history and will rip coverage away from millions of New Jerseyans, all to fund tax breaks for billionaires and big corporations. Instead of representing 70,000 of his constituents who count on Medicaid, Rep. Kean is set to cave to Trump and give billionaires and corporate elites tax breaks, even though it means taking health care away from New Jerseyans, including seniors, children, veterans, people with disabilities, workers who don’t get coverage through their jobs, and people who take care of their children or elderly parents.
Rep. Kean and House Republicans’ budget will have a devastating impact not only on those who rely on Medicaid for lifesaving care and coverage, but on the local economies, doctors and nurses, and hospitals and clinics that count on Medicaid to stay open.
91 percent of New Jersey voters in the 7th district oppose cutting Medicaid. Rep. Kean continues to lie about his Medicaid cuts because he knows they are cruel and unpopular and wants you to believe that Republicans in Washington can slash Medicaid by hundreds of billions of dollars without hurting people, which the nonpartisan CBO has repeatedly proved to be untrue.
“Congressman Tom Kean will be in the driver’s seat as Republicans make the largest cuts in Medicaid history,” said Protect Our Care President Brad Woodhouse. “Medicaid is life and death for people. And Rep. Kean and his colleagues are gearing up to kick millions off their coverage, including children, seniors in nursing homes, people with disabilities, people fighting cancer and serious illnesses, and more. Communities in New Jersey and across the country are going to feel the consequences of Republicans’ cruel and life-threatening scheme to make cuts to Americans’ health care to fund tax breaks for the rich. Rep. Kean is trading Americans’ health care for billionaires’ tax breaks and putting the interests of Donald Trump and the wealthiest Americans and corporations over his constituents.”
BACKGROUND
- FACT SHEET: Rep. Tom Kean Jr. Spreads Gutless Lies To New Jerseyans While Slashing Medicaid
- STATE FACT SHEET: Republicans Are Planning To Gut Health Care For New Jerseyans To Hand Out Tax Breaks To The Rich and Big Corporations
- CBO Confirms Republican War on Health Care Will Rip Care Away from Millions
- THE TRUTH: Every Republican Medicaid Proposal Will Take Health Care Away from Millions To Fund Tax Breaks for the Wealthy