Nonpartisan Analysis: Gabe Evans Voted to “Make the Rich Richer and the Poor Poorer” [Colorado Sun]

Coloradans are reading all about a new report from the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) that shows that Evans cast the deciding vote to fund tax breaks for billionaires off the backs of working Coloradans.

The new CBO analysis comes just days after new polling showed Evans’ approval ratings under water in his district. The survey also revealed that 63% of registered voters in Colorado’s eighth congressional district say they’re “less likely” to support a candidate who voted to cut Medicaid.

Nearly 1 in 3 of Evans’ constituents depend on Medicaid for their health care, and thousands in Evans’ district could lose coverage if his plan becomes law.

DCCC Spokesperson Lindsay Reilly:
“This non-partisan analysis just confirmed what we’ve known all along: Gabe Evans’ plan robs everyday Coloradans to pay for tax cuts for billionaires. Voters aren’t going to forget that Evans sold them out, and they’ll fire him for it next November.”

In case you missed it…

• The biggest winners of the Republican-backed spending bill are the wealthiest Americans, a new analysis from the Congressional Budget office shows, while the biggest losers are the poorest.
• The office analyzed the impact on households across different income levels of the bill’s roughly $3 trillion in tax cuts and about $1 trillion in spending cuts on programs like Medicaid and food stamps.
• The tax cuts would mostly benefit the wealthiest households… The spending cuts would overwhelmingly hurt low-income households.
• The poorest 10% of households, making about $23,000 on average, would lose about 4% of their income over 10 years, or about $1,560, almost exclusively because of cuts to programs like Medicaid and food stamps.
• Households with an average income of about $56,000 or less would lose money over the next 10 years because the cuts to spending would outweigh any gains from the tax cuts.
• Twenty-four percent of households in District 8 had an income of less than $50,000 in 2023, according to Census estimates.

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