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NEW: After Voting to Gut Medicaid, Gabe Evans is Trying to “Recast” Himself as a Medicaid Supporter

New reporting from Rolling Stone exposes Evans for introducing a resolution to celebrate Medicaid – weeks after he voted for the largest Medicaid cuts in history

Does Gabe Evans think Colorado voters are dumb?

New reporting from Rolling Stone details how Evans “introduced a resolution purporting to recognize the 60th anniversary of Medicaid’s establishment”… despite having just voted to completely gut the health care program.

Rolling Stone reports that Evans and his GOP colleagues are “attempting to recast themselves as protectors of the health care program they sent to the wood chipper.” It’s no wonder why – 63% of registered voters in Evans’ district say they are less likely to support a candidate who voted to cut Medicaid.

DCCC Spokesperson Lindsay Reilly:
“Gabe Evans has such little respect for Coloradans that he thinks a meaningless resolution will make up for the fact that he voted to rip health care away from thousands of his own constituents. Coloradans are much smarter than Evans gives them credit for, and they’ll vote him out next November.”

Read more from Rolling Stone below:
  • Last month, Republicans passed a reconciliation bill that is expected to kick millions of Americans off of Medicaid and other forms of health insurance. The legislation includes over $800 [billion] in cuts to Medicaid spending over the next 10 years, the largest in the program’s history.
  • Now, as Republicans gear up for next year’s midterm elections, vulnerable lawmakers who supported the so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” are attempting to recast themselves as protectors of the health care program they sent to the wood chipper.
  • Last week […] Gabe Evans (R-Colo.) […] introduced a resolution purporting to recognize the 60th anniversary of Medicaid’s establishment as well as “Congress’s commitment to preserve and strengthen the program for the nation’s most vulnerable populations.”
  • Last month, the National Journal’s Hotline Power Rankings rated Evans the second-most vulnerable member of the House GOP in the country.
  • In Colorado, where nearly 30 percent of the population receives health care coverage through Medicaid, Rep. Evans voted in favor of the cuts despite widespread opposition from his own constituents — 19,000 of whom may lose their Medicaid coverage. 
  • In May, as the bill was being crafted in the House, Evans all but stood on a soapbox in front of the Colorado Capitol and declared that he was “proud to support the one Big Beautiful Bill.” He was met with an ongoing chorus of jeers and boos from protesters bringing attention to the proposed Medicaid cuts. 
  • At the end of the day, the three representatives threw their full support behind the most ruthless gutting of a public health care program in the nation’s history, and now — through performative resolutions — are attempting to reframe their actions as a heroic defense of the program they sought to kneecap.
  • A joint resolution celebrating 60 years of Medicaid might play well for a few press releases, but it won’t provide health care coverage for the [..] Americans who stand to lose access to the program.

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