After hurdling the country into a government shutdown and abandoning the nearly 400,000 Arizonans set to see their health insurance premiums skyrocket up to 55% next year, vulnerable Republican Juan Ciscomani refuses to come to work and push for a solution.
While Ciscomani is skipping town, Arizonans are taking note. Voters across Southern Arizona are calling out Ciscomani’s spinelessness in the Daily Star, noting that he is leaving his constituents behind “so that billionaires can receive a tax cut.”
DCCC Spokesperson Lindsay Reilly:
“While Juan Ciscomani stays home, Arizonans are bracing for skyrocketing health care premiums on his watch. Voters are taking note of Ciscomani’s carelessness, and they will remember how he treated them at the ballot box next year.”
Read more of what Arizonans had to say:
Arizona Daily Star: Tucson Speaks Out: Government shutdown
- A government shutdown is now upon us…The shutdown lies squarely in the hands of the GOP, who hold a majority in both the House and Senate.
- Taking their marching orders directly from Donald Trump, Republicans in Congress have embraced cruelty in the form of their Big, Awful Bill that will strip millions of their healthcare and have abandoned any need to provide checks and balances for an out-of-control Chief Executive.
- Enabling this situation is Congressman Juan Ciscomani, who has engaged in a nonstop campaign of gaslighting his constituents and sanitizing his own complicity in this mess.
- Rep. Ciscomani has all but abandoned holding town hall meetings and facilitates the toxic politics of MAGA. We in the 6th Congressional District deserve better representation from our Congressman in Washington.
Arizona Daily Star: Tucson Speaks Out: Callous disregard
- Juan Ciscomani, in his recent “Weekly Note,” conveyed that he had done his job on the Appropriations Committee by fully funding the government into November. What he did was secure a tax cut for the very rich by cutting health care for the poor. I think that his callous disregard for the welfare of his constituents is shockingly cruel.
Arizona Daily Star: Tucson Speaks Out: Whose shutdown?
- CD 6 Congressman Juan Ciscomani sent out his weekly newsletter, informing its readers that the House did the right thing in passing a 7-week stopgap continuing resolution and going home. Mind you, this bill was crafted and passed by a tiny Republican majority, acting at the behest of the President and with no minority Democratic participation.
- Knowing that the Senate would be hard-pressed to agree to their bill and removed from the scene, Republicans like Mr. Ciscomani spent last week drafting newsletters like the one I just read, but not defending their Big, Beautiful Bill’s cuts to Medicaid and Medicare in face-to-face meetings with their unhappy constituents.
- And of course, it is those President-demanded cuts Democrats in the House and Senate continue to attempt to mitigate. And of course, this is why we don’t find Mr. Ciscomani in supermarket parking lots discussing his remarkably sycophantic record with his constituency.