“They literally said we weren’t going to touch Medicaid and we touched a trillion dollars worth of Medicaid.”
Washington, D.C. – As millions of hard-working families brace for the fallout of Donald Trump and Republicans’ tax bill, Representative Chip Roy (R-TX) is bragging about making the largest health care cuts in history to fund massive tax breaks for billionaires and big corporations. While Republicans are going around trying to conceal the truth, Chip Roy is setting the record straight. Because of the GOP cuts, 17 million Americans will lose coverage, premiums will skyrocket for middle-class families, rural hospitals will be forced to shut their doors, and entire communities will be left behind.
“Chip Roy has finally admitted the truth: the GOP tax bill guts Medicaid,” said Protect Our Care Chair Leslie Dach. “All along, Republicans have been denying that they cut Medicaid, but today, Chip Roy confirmed the truth. Anything else is a lie. Republicans have been pulling the wool over their constituents’ eyes, hoping to hide the fact that they sold out American health care to pay for tax breaks for billionaires and big corporations — but now a leader from their own party is setting the record straight. And Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans are going to regret the day they decided to slash health care and gut Medicaid.”
NOTUS: ‘It’s Just a Lot of Drama.’
By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Jasmine Wright // July 18, 2025
Lots of eye rolling: Once again the House Freedom Caucus trashed a bill, slowed its passage down and eventually voted for it — a pattern that’s led to plenty of frustration in the House GOP ranks, NOTUS’ Riley Rogerson reports.
“It’s just a lot of drama,” Rep. Nicole Malliotakis told her.
The Freedom Caucus says it’s winning. “They literally said we weren’t going to touch Medicaid,” Rep. Chip Roy, a senior member of the caucus, told NOTUS. “And we touched a trillion dollars worth of Medicaid.”