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Even though House Republicans attempted to hide their betrayal to the American people by passing their Tax Scam in the dark of the night, it hasn’t prevented the flood of negative news coverage showing the public how House Republicans abandoned working families to side with the billionaires and ultra-wealthy. From Kentucky to California, Iowa to Alaska, the backlash is growing.
It makes sense why. According to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, the Tax Scam would force nearly $500 billion in cuts to Medicare and result in nearly 14 million Americans at risk of losing their health insurance, 18 million children without school lunches, and 3 million Americans losing access to affordable food.
Make no mistake. As made clear by the DCCC in a new memo, this vote alone will cost House Republicans the majority next year. Read for yourself:
FOX News: Democrats predict passing Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ will cost many Republicans their seats
- Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chair Rep. Suzan DelBene of Washington State said in a Fox News Digital interview ahead of the final House vote that “we’re going to hold Republicans accountable, and there will be a price to pay.”
- “Let’s be clear, all Republicans are talking about right now is how many people and how fast they’re going to take away healthcare. They have these huge cuts to Medicaid, 14 million people lose healthcare across the country, and they’re talking about how fast they can do that,” said DelBene.
Punchbowl News: DCCC: Reconciliation vote dooms GOP
- The DCCC predicts that House Republicans voting for the sweeping reconciliation bill “will cost them their majority next year.”
- “No matter what happens in the Senate with respect to budget reconciliation, House Republicans have already sealed their political fate,” the DCCC writes in a memo that we first obtained.
- The House Democratic campaign arm is pledging to make Republican support for the reconciliation bill “as the defining contrast of the 2026 election cycle.”
- There’s recent precedent for this, as the DCCC notes in the memo. In the 2018 cycle, Republican attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act served as the dominating issue of the “Blue Wave” — despite the fact that it never became law.
Mother Jones: House GOPers Just Voted for the Biggest Medicaid Cuts in History—After Promising to Protect It
- House Republicans whose seats are not safe in the 2026 midterm elections voted early on Thursday morning to advance the largest cuts to Medicaid in history, endangering health care for millions of the poorest Americans. Several cast these votes after making promises to protect the Great Society program that provides health care to millions.
- Rep. David Valadao (R-Calif.), for example, posted less than a month ago “I won’t support a final reconciliation bill that includes any reduction in Medicaid coverage for vulnerable populations.” In 2023, the Hill recently reported, “48.7 percent of Valadao’s constituents… were covered by Medicaid.” But this morning he voted for the bill.
Alaska Public Media: Alaskans protest Begich’s support for Medicaid cuts in national budget reconciliation bill
- Organizers said the Thursday protest was to express public mourning for Begich’s vote. Demonstrators staged a hospital bed and funeral flowers to show the cuts could mean the difference between life and death for some Alaskans.
- Emily Dhatt, with the Alaska Caregivers Union…said Alaskans aren’t going to let their politicians rip away healthcare from thousands.
Des Moines Register: Congress passes budget bill with deep cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. What that means for Iowa
- “There’s no preparing for this,” said Anne Discher, executive director of Common Good Iowa. “There’s no way to make this not hurt people. There’s no magic thing Iowa can do to not feel the impacts of the kinds of cuts they’re talking about.”
- Republican U.S. Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks sits on the Energy and Commerce committee and voted for the cuts.
- According to KFF, a health information nonprofit, Iowa would lose $518 million in federal funding, which is a 25% cut to its state spending per resident. Based on that funding loss, KFF estimates more than 86,000 Iowans would lose their Medicaid coverage.
- With cuts to Medicaid, Discher said it’s likely Iowa will see more of its rural hospitals cease certain health care services — or even close down.
- These policies were approved May 15 by the House Agriculture Committee. Republican U.S. Reps. Zach Nunn and Randy Feenstra sit on that committee and voted for the budget bill.
Lexington Herald Ledger: Despite Kentucky’s loyalty to GOP, Trump’s budget would hurt Kentuckians deeply | Opinion
- But the House budget released early Thursday morning — won by one vote — shows no such loyalty back [to the state that overwhelmingly voted for Trump]. Instead it creates a blueprint that will decimate rural hospitals, empty food banks, and leave our children hungry and our families poorer.
Copper Courier: Arizona Republicans vote to take healthcare, food aid away from constituents
- [David] Schweikert, whose district includes Scottsdale and other parts of northeastern Maricopa County, faced pressure from his constituents to vote no on the bill, but was ultimately unmoved by their pleas.
- US Republican Juan Ciscomani of Tucson, who co-signed a letter to GOP leadership asking for no cuts to Medicaid, also supported the legislation, voting to pass it even as it is estimated to throw over 28,000 people in his district off Medicaid, according to the Center for American Progress, a liberal thinktank.
- Rep. Eli Crane, who represents the Navajo Nation, voted for the cuts which would leave 41,000 of his constituents at risk of losing their coverage over the next decade. Two counties Crane represents, Apache County and Navajo County, have among the highest county-level share of seniors on Medicaid in the US, meaning they could be hit particularly hard by the bill’s cuts. The cuts to Medicaid could also have devastating effects on rural hospitals, which often depend on Medicaid funding to continue operations.
- Schweikert, Ciscomani, and Crane all represent swing districts. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee lists all three as “districts in play” — those with the highest chances of flipping blue in the next election cycle.
The Virginian-Pilot: Editorial: In the end, Reps. Kiggans and Wittman sold out their constituents
- As the sweeping Republican spending bill lurched its way through the U.S. House in recent weeks, members of Virginia’s congressional delegation promised they would oppose those sections that made life more difficult for commonwealth residents or which imperiled our economic future.
- Yet when push came to shove — when residents of Hampton Roads really needed the elected representatives to defend their interests — U.S. Reps. Jen Kiggans and Rob Wittman folded. On Thursday morning, they voted with their party and with the president instead of with the people they swore to serve.
- It would be a betrayal were it not so predictable.
Lohud: House budget bill: Nearly 1.5M in NY could lose health coverage under House GOP cuts
- Almost 1.5 million New Yorkers could lose their health insurance under the huge package of spending and tax cuts House Republicans approved Thursday, May 22, according to state estimates.
- State officials project more than 1.2 million of the 6.9 million New Yorkers now enrolled in Medicaid would become disqualified as a result of the GOP plan.
- An estimated $13.5 billion a year for New York…That’s the full toll officials project for the state and its hospitals, based on federal funding cuts and new costs they must shoulder.
WLNS: Medicaid cuts bring protesters to Barrett’s Lansing office
- Protesters gathered in front of U.S. Rep. Tom Barrett’s Lansing office Thursday to voice their disappointment in his “yes” vote on the “one big, beautiful bill.”
- In particular, these protesters are not happy that he supported the legislation’s cuts to Medicaid.
- The protester said that Medicaid was crucial for her while she was a single mother pursuing a college degree.
- “Even people who are not on Medicare or Medicaid will be affected,” said Clyde.
- “Even larger hospital systems are going to have to cut back because they won’t have the income they’ve had before.” Clyde continued, “What are you cutting health care for?”
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