| Ohio’s economy is set to get crushed after Max Miller cast the deciding vote for Republicans’ Big, Ugly Bill.
A damning new analysis lays out exactly what Miller’s disastrous agenda will cost the families he’s supposed to represent: 51,000 lost jobs and more than $5 billion drained from the state economy.
That’s the eighth-worst job loss of any state in the country, a direct result of Miller and House Republicans gutting Medicaid and food assistance while letting Affordable Care Act subsidies expire.
Miller has already raised prices on everything from groceries to health care, with roughly 600,000 Ohioans watching their insurance premiums DOUBLE after he refused to extend the ACA tax credits. “The cuts won’t just harm low-income Americans […] they’ll damage entire state economies,” according to the report.
DCCC Spokesperson Riya Vashi:
“Max Miller’s only loyalty is to his D.C. party bosses and his ultrawealthy donors. He cast the deciding vote to kill 51,000 Ohio jobs and rip billions out of his own state’s economy, all to hand massive tax breaks to billionaires. While Ohio families get crushed under the Republican economy, Max Miller couldn’t seem to care less.”
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Ohio Capital Journal: Ohio will lose 51,000 jobs, $5.3 billion due to Trump cuts by 2029, new analysis finds
- Ohio will lose 51,000 jobs and $5.3 billion from the state economy in 2029, according to a new analysis.
- That’s the effect that cuts to Medicaid and food assistance under a massive 2025 spending law will have when they’re fully phased in. It’s also the consequence of Republicans allowing Affordable Care Act subsidies to expire at the end of the last year, according to a Commonwealth Fund analysis which was published last week.
- Those losses come despite $200 million in rural health money Ohio will get from a fund that Republicans built into the spending bill. The measure was meant to quell concerns that Medicaid cuts could close rural hospitals, the analysis said.
- “While the infusion of $10 billion into state economies for rural health contributes to some economic growth, it is overshadowed by the $31 billion in federal funding cuts to ACA marketplaces,” the analysis said.
- When Congress allowed [ACA tax credits] to expire, most of the 600,000 Ohioans who bought insurance on the exchanges saw premiums for their plans double. […] KFF reports that Ohio enrollment was down 20% this year.
- Even bigger losses to the state loom when the provisions of Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” take full effect, the Commonwealth Fund report said.
- The legislation cut more than $900 billion over 10 years from Medicaid. It also cut $187 billion from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, commonly known as food stamps or EBT.
- Along with deep cuts to the safety net, Trump’s signature law gave huge tax cuts to the richest Americans. The Commonwealth Fund analysis said it amounted to yet another upward redistribution of wealth.
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