Rep. McBride Slams GOP Budget as Trumpcare in Disguise

Washington, D.C. —During a House Committee on Rules hearing, Delaware’s Congresswoman Sarah McBride blasted the Republican budget proposal as a “fundamental and dangerous rehaul” of the American health care system, warning it would leave 17 million more Americans uninsured, raise costs for working families, and shutter rural hospitals.

“This is Trumpcare,” said Rep. McBride. “And Trumpcare means 17 million Americans losing coverage. It means rural hospitals closing. It means patients paying more out of pocket and having to drive further to get care.”

The Majority’s budget reconciliation bill slashes Medicaid while adding burdensome red tape and bureaucratic hurdles that would make it harder for patients to access care. McBride criticized the plan as importing “the worst parts of the private health care system” into safety-net programs like Medicaid, driving patients out of coverage by design. 

“They’re inserting waste into Medicaid and Medicare by adding excessive paperwork, excessive bureaucracy. They are importing the worst parts of the private health care system into Medicaid and into Medicare to make it more complicated, to push people off of care, to make people just give up entirely on getting care,” said McBride. “I think this big ugly bill needs to be DOGE’d.”

In her remarks, McBride noted that the bill is entirely about handing tax breaks to billionaires, and to “partially, just partially pay for it, they’re handing the bill to Medicaid patients. They’re handing the bill to Medicare patients. They’re handing the bill to hungry families. They’re handing the bill to state governments. They’re handing the bill to state governments. They’re handing the bill to future generations.”

McBride called for rejecting the bill entirely.

“I understand why this majority doesn't want to have their fingerprints on these cuts,” McBride continued. “They're trying to push off the difficult choices to state governments. They're trying to make it the fault of patients who can't keep up with the paperwork. 

“This is trickle down cruelty.”

Watch Rep. McBride’s full remarks here.

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