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BROKEN PROMISES: Mike Lawler Torched by Constituents for Slashing Health Care and Raising Costs

“Despite his pledges to protect Medicare, [Lawler] voted for a half trillion dollar Medicare cut.”

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 the single largest cut to Medicaid in history under Donald Trump’s Big Ugly Bill.

Now, Lawler’s constituents are filling the pages of local newspapers – torching him for ripping away health care from Hudson Valley families, all to pay for “a trillion dollars in tax cuts for the [top] 1%.”

“The congressman continues to support misappropriations that hurt the American people and undermine our sense of safety,” one constituent wrote.

“The thing is, if Mr. Lawler was willing, indeed voted, to gut Medicare once, what’s to stop him from doing it again?” said another.

Read the scathing letters for yourself:

Rockland County Business Journal: Letter To The Editor: Don’t Trust Mike Lawler With Another Medicare Gutting Vote

  • I dutifully paid into Medicare with every paycheck I earned over my almost-50 year career. That was the bargain. At retirement, my contributions would come back to me as the security in knowing that I could live in dignity without fear of catastrophic medical expenses.
  • As a now-retired civil servant paying Medicare premiums, I also have to pay thousands of dollars a year for a secondary health insurance policy to cover what Medicare doesn’t. My premium for that insurance skyrocketed by 12.5% this year after it increased by 13.5% in 2025. Reductions to Medicare coverage would multiply those soaring health care costs.
  • I’m not unique. No doubt there are thousands of retirees in the Hudson Valley in the same boat.
  • By passing the “Big Beautiful Bill” with a trillion dollars in tax cuts for the “1%”, the “PAYGO” law triggered automatic Medicare cuts of up to $500 billion. That’s “billion” with a “B”. This was no secret.
  • This mandatory trigger was known to every representative who voted for the bill, including Rep. Mike Lawler. Despite his pledges to protect Medicare, he voted for a half trillion dollar Medicare cut.
  • The thing is, if Mr. Lawler was willing, indeed voted, to gut Medicare once, what’s to stop him from doing it again?
  • The Big Beautiful Bill is really a big ugly bill which Congressman Mike Lawler voted for last July, as the congressman continues to support misappropriations that hurt the American people and undermine our sense of safety.
  • The policy changes Lawler voted for regarding the tax cuts in the budget reconciliation bill have drastically shortened the financial life spans of both Medicare and Social Security. This means the spending trajectory of payments to seniors will outweigh the amount of taxes paid into the system. In less than a year, Trump erased 12 years of solvency for the trust fund that pays for Medicare Part A.
  • In addition, 10,000 of our neighbors in Lawler’s district will lose food assistance — and 2.4 million people nationwide. I personally know people who are working two jobs just to feed their families and still need their SNAP benefits to survive. Do you think working families have time to complete onerous paperwork to document their eligibility as often as every 6 months?
  • We need to replace MAGA Mike with a representative who will fight for the elderly, vulnerable, and working families.

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