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Mike Lawler Votes to Rip Away Health Care Access and Take Food Off of New Yorkers’ Tables

Lawler’s vote takes away health care coverage and food assistance from working parents, kids, seniors, and people with disabilities in the Lower Hudson Valley

Mike Lawler and House Republicans just passed a far-right budget resolution that will rip away health care coverage and affordable food for millions of American families, all so they can fund massive tax breaks for their billionaire backers and wealthy corporations.

In NY-17 alone, this dangerous vote risks health care coverage for 98,000 people and food assistance for over 18,000 households.

Despite the loud outcry of people in NY-17 warning Mike Lawler to vote against decimating Medicaid and threatening their livelihoods, Lawler still voted to pass this destructive budget scam, once again choosing his D.C. party bosses and billionaires over New Yorkers.

The DCCC will hold Mike Lawler accountable for his support of this dangerous agenda to rip away health care and food access from Lower Hudson Valley families.

DCCC Spokesperson Ellie Dougherty:
“Mike Lawler just sealed his political fate by inflicting this massive pain on Lower Hudson Valley families, and no amount of his desperate lies will save him from the political fallout of this vote.”

See here for a fact sheet for how Lawler’s vote will hurt NY-17.

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