READ ALL ABOUT IT: Devastating Impacts of House Republicans’ Plans Laid Out in Black and White

As House Republicans begin their committee markups this week to shove through their unpopular plan to give permanent tax breaks to the ultra-wealthy by ripping away health care from millions and taking food off the table of American families – everyone across the country is, well, reading all about it.

DCCC Spokesperson Viet Shelton: 
“Many people are saying House Republicans’ plan to cut Medicaid and raise costs on everyone – except their billionaire backers – is such a disaster that it will cost them the House majority.”

A sample of the national headlines House Republicans don’t want anyone to see:

• Republicans’ plans to cut health care as part of President Donald Trump’s tax and immigration agenda could strip Medicaid coverage from 8.7 million people and lead to 7.6 million more uninsured people over 10 years, according to an estimate from Congress’s nonpartisan bookkeeper in documents obtained by The Washington Post.

• Republicans are likely to meet headwinds as they move forward. Democrats and their allies have already made the proposed cuts a 2026 election issue, and providers aren’t keen on them either. Extracting $880 billion in federal savings from Medicaid over 10 years represents a significant share of spending on the program, equal to 29 percent of state spending per Medicaid enrollee, according to an analysis by KFF.

• Now, the largest cut left among [Republicans’] whittled-down options would disproportionately hurt states that supported Mr. Trump in the 2024 election.

• Whichever states get hit hardest would face big budget shortfalls, and to compensate, some could drop Medicaid’s health insurance coverage for some of their lower-income adults, cut hospital payments, or cut other government priorities.

• If legislators ended the provider tax loophole, those states could lose 30 percent of their federal Medicaid funding, according to an analysis from Mr. Henderson and his colleagues. They would have a gaping hole in their state budgets, and might need to consider raising taxes or cutting benefits.

• Millions of people would lose health insurance if congressional Republicans let a policy expire intended to lower the out-of-pocket costs of Affordable Care Act plans, according to a Congressional Budget Office estimate released Friday.

• Republicans are now faced with a difficult choice before these tax credits expire at the end of the year: spend a significant amount of money to extend the subsidies associated with the Democrats’ 2010 health law they largely revile, or let them expire and see out-of-pocket costs rises for voters in an election year.

• Low-income families stand to lose hundreds if not thousands of dollars in income while wealthy ones will gain even more, according to a new analysis of Congressional Republican tax and budget proposals.

• The report estimated that families with a modified adjusted gross income of less than $10,000 would lose over $2,700 (or nearly a 15% reduction in income). Families who make between $10,000 and $20,000 would lose over $800, or about 4.4% reduction in income, while families who make between $20,000 and $30,000 would lose $400, or about 1.5% reduction in income.

• In comparison, families with higher incomes would benefit from the extension of the 2017 tax cuts.

• A Republican-led proposal to scale back Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies could result in millions of Americans losing their health insurance, according to new estimates from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).

• Across three various policies that could be brought into action, the expiration of expanded premium tax credits, the finalizing of the 2025 Marketplace Integrity and Affordability Rule and possible changes to Medicaid, the CBO estimated that as many as 13.7 million Americans would be left without health coverage by 2034.

• The proposed subsidy rollback would strip coverage from millions, particularly hitting low-income adults who depend on enhanced premium tax credits to afford health plans under the ACA.

• The out-of-pocket costs for all privately insured Americans, including those with employment-based coverage, would increase by $450 for individuals and $900 for families as a result of the policy.

• Several state officials are warning that a House Republican plan to make them share the costs of America’s largest food aid program would blow holes through their budgets and force them to cut services.

• Officials in Alabama, Pennsylvania and New York told POLITICO that GOP lawmakers should abandon their cost-sharing proposal, which would ask states to help fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program for the first time, using a sliding scale based on their payment error rates. West Virginia’s governor also opposes the plan.

• As Republicans in Congress struggle to coalesce around the core pieces of what Mr. Trump calls his “one big, beautiful bill,” Mr. Evans and other G.O.P. lawmakers from some of the most competitive districts in the country are facing committee votes next week to approve cuts to popular programs that could come back to haunt them politically.

• “These members of Congress won with fewer votes than the number of people in their district on Medicaid,” said Jesse Ferguson, a veteran Democratic strategist and a former spokesman for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. “Voting for this is like being the captain of the Titanic and deciding to intentionally hit the iceberg.”

• The group includes Representative Mariannette Miller-Meeks, Republican of Iowa, who also sits on the Energy and Commerce Committee and is on even shakier ground than Mr. Evans.

• Also on the panel is Representative Thomas H. Kean Jr., a Republican from a highly competitive district in New Jersey.

• On the Agriculture Committee, which must find $230 billion in cuts over a decade, Republicans are feuding over how much to slash from federal food assistance programs, with those from competitive seats wary of reductions that could hit their constituents. That panel also includes some of the most endangered Republicans in the House: Representatives Rob Bresnahan Jr., a first-term Republican from Pennsylvania; Don Bacon of Nebraska; Zach Nunn of Iowa; and Derrick Van Orden of Wisconsin.

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