WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, JD Vance is celebrating ripping away health care and food assistance from millions of Americans – including almost half a million Pennsylvanians – by gaslighting voters in Republican Rob Bresnahan’s congressional district. Trump and Vance’s Big, Ugly Bill, which Bresnahan cast a deciding vote for after selling stock in a Medicaid provider, will force rural hospitals across the country to close, including as many as five in Pennsylvania, all to pay for massive tax breaks for corporations and the ultra-wealthy.
In response, Defend America Action Senior Spokesperson Rodericka Applewhaite released the following statement:
“It wasn’t enough for Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans like Rob Bresnahan to pass an extreme, unpopular bill gutting Medicaid and food assistance to pay for giant tax breaks for the richest people on the planet. Now, they’re shipping out JD Vance to gaslight Pennsylvanians and Americans about what the bill actually does.
“Vance won’t be going to a rural hospital or a nursing home to fess up to the fact that the bill is a complete and utter betrayal, breaking Trump’s promise not to cut Medicaid, kicking eligible, qualified people off the program, ripping away food assistance from their own voters, and exploding the deficit. Instead, he’ll lie through his teeth to the very people who will be hurt most by Republicans’ upside down priorities. Trump’s Republicans lined up to obediently vote for a bill they know is morally wrong, politically suicidal, and in Bresnahan’s case, very profitable. But Republicans losing their jobs in Congress next year pales in comparison to the price the American people will pay as they get sicker or die because of this disastrous legislation.”
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