Congressman Ryan Mackenzie Marks His First Year in Office: Higher Costs and Devastating Cuts

What Mackenzie isn’t telling the hardworking people of the Lehigh Valley is that his first year in office has been marked by higher prices and devastating cuts to health care and public safety initiatives across the Lehigh Valley.

Here are a few numbers you need to know from Mackenzie’s first year:

• 24,000 + – That’s how many people across Pennsylvania’s 7th Congressional District are set to lose health care coverage because Mackenzie cast a decisive vote for massive Medicaid cuts.
• 40,000+ – That’s how many households across Pennsylvania’s 7th Congressional District rely on SNAP and could lose food assistance because Mackenzie voted to gut the program.
• 102% – That’s how much Pennie costs on average are skyrocketing across Pennsylvania because Mackenzie failed to extend the ACA tax credits (reminder: Mackenzie called the ACA “infringements upon our rights.”)
• 250 – 350 – That’s how many workers Mack Trucks announced they were laying off at their Lehigh Valley Operations plant because of reckless tariffs supported by Mackenzie.
• $2 million – That’s how much money Mackenzie voted to strip from an anti-opioid task force in Monroe County.
• 98% – That’s how often Mackenzie has voted with Trump and his D.C. party bosses so far this Congress according to a legislative scorecard.
• 2.3 million – That’s the average nightly viewership for Jimmy Kimmel’s late night show, which made Mackenzie a punchline for acting as a loyal lapdog for Trump.

DCCC Spokesperson Eli Cousin:
“Congressman Ryan Mackenzie’s first year in office has been a disaster for the Lehigh Valley. Mackenzie rubber-stamped reckless tariffs that are jacking up prices and eliminating jobs, voted to gut Medicaid and allow health care costs to skyrocket, and stripped funding from public safety initiatives across the Lehigh Valley. Voters will hold him accountable in November.”

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