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This week, Reps. John Katko and Claudia Tenney took a massive gamble with New Yorkers’ Medicare and the U.S. economy.
According to Moody’s Analytics and the Bipartisan Policy Center, John Katko and Claudia Tenney’s dangerous and reckless “NO” vote on raising the debt limit could have immediate and urgent consequences, including:
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Billions of dollars in impending Medicare cuts to hospitals, doctors, and other providers
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Costing 6 million jobs
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Surging unemployment to 9 percent
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Delaying earned benefits like Social Security and Medicare
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Jeopardizing our military servicemembers’ paychecks
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Threatening the economic progress President Biden and House Democrats have made in pandemic recovery
Following the vote, Claudia Tenney made demonstrably false claims that her vote against the legislation protected Medicare, when it did exactly the opposite.
While Democrats voted to suspend automatic cuts to Medicare set to start January 1st, nearly every Republican, including Claudia Tenney, voted to keep those cuts in place, threatening the critical health care services that America’s seniors depend on.
DCCC Spokesperson Abel Iraola:
“New Yorkers need and deserve better representation than the likes of John Katko and Claudia Tenney, who are willing to throw them and the U.S. economy under the bus when the stakes could not be higher. And no matter how much Claudia Tenney tries to lie her way out of it, her record is clear: she voted to charge ahead with Medicare cuts for America’s seniors.”
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