Fake moderate Mike Lawler spent months promising New Yorkers that he would not vote to gut Medicaid or raise costs on middle-class families, only to turn his back and vote YES on a disastrous bill that enacts the largest cut to Medicaid in history and gives billions in tax breaks to the ultrawealthy. Now, New Yorkers are demanding accountability.
Two scathing columns slam Lawler for using “superficial rhetoric” to “conceal the true human cost” of his vote and refusing to “acknowledge facts” about the harm the bill will inflict.
Read what they had to say for yourself…
LoHud: Vote Mike Lawler out. New York’s 17th Congressional District can do better
- The devastation caused by the Trump administration is putting great stress and hurting the average American’s health care and their pocketbooks.
- Rep. Mike Lawler, who represents New York’s 17th Congressional District, votes to cut important programs that aid families. He wants to reduce Medicaid and Medicare funding. Lawler supports taking away benefits from Obamacare, the Affordable Care Act and he votes to spend more of our money on immigration enforcement and police.
- Lawler is not representing our constituency. We must vote him out, and vote in a Democratic Congressman who will have our best interests at heart.
Peekskill Herald: Rep. Lawler Is ‘Obviously’ Not Listening
- Anyone who has ever listened to Rep. Lawler’s commentary knows that he begins nearly every statement with the word “obviously”—as if the devastating consequences of his priorities are self-evident and beyond debate. Yet, for the millions of Americans whose lives will be upended by the reconciliation bill, nothing could be further from obvious or acceptable.
- Rep. Lawler’s repeated use of the word “obviously” subtly undermines honest debate and dismisses legitimate concerns as if only his view makes sense. But let’s not allow that rhetoric to obscure the ugly reality: the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) is a direct assault on some of our country’s most vulnerable populations, and Lawler proudly supports it.
- Here’s what the OBBBA will truly mean for individuals and families across the nation:
- Cuts and restrictions to Medicaid causing millions to lose healthcare coverage.
- SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) cutbacks resulting in food insecurity, poorer health outcomes, and economic hardship.
- Clean energy tax credits are gutted, meaning fewer green jobs, higher household energy costs, and worse pollution.
- Massively expanded immigration enforcement with quotas resulting in illegal kidnapping and the blatant disregard for the rule of law.
- Tax provisions that overwhelmingly favor the wealthy, adding to income inequality while potentially exploding the national debt.
- The elimination of investments in education, public health, and infrastructure.
- Congressman Lawler’s mantra — “obviously” — highlights a refusal to acknowledge facts and the widespread harm this bill will inflict. I urge our community to see through the superficial rhetoric and demand accountability for a lawmaker who uses language to conceal the true human cost of their policies.
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