More New Jersey families are losing health care and going hungry thanks to Tom Kean Jr.
Reporting from NJ Spotlight News reveals that New Jerseyans’ Medicaid enrollment dropped by 28,000, SNAP enrollment dropped by 41,000, and nearly 70,000 fewer enrolled in the Affordable Care Act as a direct result of Kean Jr.’s decisive vote for the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill.
These devastating numbers make one thing clear: Kean Jr. is no health care advocate. Instead, he is directly responsible for higher premiums and less access to care.
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NJ Spotlight News: Health care, food aid enrollees down as deeper federal cuts loom
- The deepest federal spending cuts to national health and anti-hunger programs, delivered via a bill Republicans pushed a year ago, will arrive after Election Day in November. Early data, though, show Americans’ access to such help is slipping before the law is fully implemented.
- Enrollment in Medicaid, the health insurance system for low-income and disabled residents, dropped by about 28,000 in New Jersey from January-October 2025, or 1.7%, according to the Center for Children & Families, a nonpartisan research center at Georgetown University. National Medicaid enrollment fell 2.9% percent in the same period, according to the center.
- Between July 2025 and March 2026, enrollment in New Jersey for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly called food stamps, fell about 5%, to 776,000 from roughly 817,000, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. And 68,830 fewer New Jerseyans were enrolled in the state’s health insurance market, according to state officials, after Congress chose not to extend tax credits for that system, created under a 2010 health law commonly called Obamacare.
- The three Republicans who represent New Jersey in Congress, Reps. Jeff Van Drew (R-2nd), Chris Smith (R-4th) and Tom Kean Jr. (R-7th), have stood by their votes for the law.
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