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With this proposal, abortion opponents in Congress have declared they want working families to take on skyrocketing health care costs so they can give billionaires a tax break,
said Alexis McGill Johnson, president and CEO of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund
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Taxpayers should never be mandated to prop up an industry that profits from ending lives and harming women and girls,
Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of SBA Pro-Life America, said in a statement.jpg)
I sure hope House & Senate leadership are coming up with a backup plan, ... because I’m not here to rack up an additional $20 trillion in debt over 10 years or to subsidize healthy, able-bodied adults, corrupt blue states, and monopoly hospital ceos.”
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If the law requires you, the executive, to do this work, you have, in a back door way, thumbed your nose at Congress by firing the people who are actually necessary to get that work done,
said Max Stier, the president and CEO of the nonpartisan, nonprofit Partnership for Public Service, whose mission is supporting the federal workforce
The idea that you can have a program with no people in it and no money in it, and that somehow, then you have not eliminated it — that’s just smoke and mirrors,
a high-level CDC official, granted anonymity for fear of retaliation, told POLITICO
Undoubtedly, Democrats will use this as an opportunity to engage in fear-mongering and misrepresent our bill as an attack on Medicaid,
House and Energy Commerce Committee Chairman Brett Guthrie (R-KY) wrote in the Wall Street JournalThrough their budget, their vision is for a poorer, sicker America. If they choose to not extend these credits, they are choosing to rip health care from millions. The horrific consequences will lie squarely at their feet."
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This is not trimming fat from around the edges, it’s cutting to the bone. The overwhelming majority of the savings in this bill will come from taking health care away from millions of Americans,
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No matter how Republicans try to spin it, this bill means major cuts to the Medicaid program. This package will mean millions of people losing their coverage and exploding our medical debt crisis, all to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy."
Darbin Wofford, deputy director of health care at Third Way, a center-left think tank, told Newsweek in an emailed statementWork requirements have been shown to lead to coverage losses without increasing employment. Most Medicaid enrollees who can work are already working. This will just create more red tape."
Joan Alker, executive director of Georgetown University's Center for Children and Families, said
This is an attack on poor people under the guise of promoting work."
New Jersey Representative Frank Pallone, the ranking Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, told CNNWe are doing absolutely nothing to hurt Medicare, Medicaid or Social Security. Nothing at all.”
Just the other week, he said
In no uncertain terms, millions of Americans will lose their health care coverage, hospitals will close, seniors will not be able to access the care they need, and premiums will rise for millions of people if this bill passes,
Representative Frank Pallone of New Jersey, the top Democrat on the Energy and Commerce Committee, said in a statementWithout Republican solutions, Washington risks a complete collapse of Medicaid. Even with these simple steps to eliminate waste and abuse, Medicaid spending will continue to rise every year for the foreseeable future,
the Kentucky Republican said
The legislation would reverse the most reckless parts of the engorged climate spending in the misnamed Inflation Reduction Act, returning $6.5 billion in unspent funds,
Guthrie wroteOur true and honest intention is to ensure that every Medicaid beneficiary who is in that traditional community of folks, you're talking about young pregnant mothers and young single mothers and the elderly and disabled, those folks are covered, and no one loses their coverage."
House Speaker Mike Johnson said earlier this week, per NPRThey're not just out here to cut health care for health care's sake, they have an assignment,
the New York representative said
We will always protect Medicare and Social Security for our great seniors with no cuts and we will defend Medicaid for those great people that are in need. House Republicans are working to invest more money in Medicaid than we spend today, the only thing we we're going to cut is the corruption and the corrupts who take advantage of some of the illegal schemes."
President Donald Trump said in Michigan on April 29In order to do that, you have to gut what is left of the health care and social safety net in the United States. They're doing it because they have to hand over a bag."
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