| Californians are starting to see their health insurance costs soar for 2026 on the insurance marketplace – with premiums expected to increase by 97% on average across the state.
But instead of doing anything to actually help Californians, David Valadao is… you guessed it… signing onto a letter.
How brave!
You might be wondering: where have I seen this film before? Let’s recall:
- Valadao signed onto multiple letters saying he would not support the steep cuts to Medicaid in the Senate-passed version of the Big, Ugly Bill. Then what did he do? He voted for the largest cuts to Medicaid in history, which have already caused health clinics across the country to shutter and are pushing California’s rural health systems to the brink.
- Valadao also signed onto multiple letters expressing concerns about rolling back clean energy tax credits. Then what did he do? He voted to take a sledgehammer to those tax credits, and now thousands of California jobs are at risk.
Valadao is back to playing his same tired political games – this time signing a phony letter that, if past is prologue, he doesn’t actually mean.
DCCC Spokesperson Anna Elsasser:
“David Valadao’s letters aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on. If Valadao really wanted lower health care costs, he’d join Democrats in pushing to extend the ACA tax credits now, not at some unknown future date. But he won’t, and it’s his constituents who will pay the price. That’s not leadership – that’s lip service.” |
