Vulnerable AZ Republicans Schweikert, Crane, Ciscomani Start To Realize Cutting Health Care, Jobs Is Not Popular

Despite each playing a crucial role to pass it, David Schweikert, Eli Crane, and Juan Ciscomani are now hollowly expressing “concerns” about the bill that kicks more than 342,000 Arizonans off their health care, takes food out of hungry families’ mouths, and eliminates good-paying clean energy jobs across the state.

Ciscomani, who sent a letter last week begging the Senate to change the bill he already voted for, says he is still “proud” of the legislation, and that eliminating “lifechanging” jobs in Casa Grande was not “a reason strong enough” to vote against the Tax Scam.

DCCC Spokesperson Lindsay Reilly:
“David Schweikert, Eli Crane, and Juan Ciscomani had their chance to stand up for Arizonans and fight for health care, lower costs, and jobs – but they chose not to. Their hollow concerns are just pathetic attempts to save their own political careers. Schweikert, Crane, and Ciscomani are total frauds, and Arizonans are going to fire them next November.”

In case you missed it…

• Eli Crane and David Schweikert… signaled they agreed with tech mogul Elon Musk who, during a heated online feud with Trump, argued the bill they helped pass May 22 will add trillions to the country’s deficit.
• Rep. Juan Ciscomani, a southern Arizona lawmaker seen as vulnerable in next year’s elections, signed onto a letter asking the Senate to “substantively and strategically improve” the provisions of the bill that phase out clean energy tax credits.
• The Trump-backed budget… offsets those new costs with spending cuts to programs like Medicaid, the food assistance program SNAP, the clean energy tax credits, and more.
• [Ciscomani] wound up voting to pass the budget bill, even though it included cuts to clean energy that he opposed, and is projected to cut Medicaid for about 200,000 people across Arizona, including 16,000 in Ciscomani’s district.
• He strenuously pushed back on the idea that his warnings about the bill’s clean energy provisions represented any “reservation” with the bill.
• His concerns weren’t “a reason strong enough” to oppose the package, he said.
• “No bill is perfect,” Ciscomani said. “I’m proud of the vote I took.”

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