06.28.2025 / Statement
Families USA Urges Senate to Vote Against Big, Bad Budget Bill that will Devastate American Health Care System
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Anthony Wright, executive director of Families USA, today released the following statement after the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) gave a preliminary analysis showing the big budget bill cuts $930 billion from Medicaid, as Senate Republican leadership prepare to force a vote on the bill Saturday evening.
“No Senator should vote for this big bad budget bill this week, on the policy, the process, or the politics. Every poll shows this budget bill is wildly unpopular, which is why the Senate Republican leadership are rushing this through without a single hearing. They are crafting it behind closed doors, with unseemly state-specific sweetheart deals, and seeking to jam it through this weekend before the Senators have even fully read the bill, much less understood all the implications and impacts of these catastrophic cuts to care and coverage and much more.
“No Senator should be voting this weekend for a package where they don’t fully know how many millions of Americans will be pushed or priced out of health coverage, and how much health care costs will go up as a result of this big budget betrayal. What we do know is that while the House was the biggest cut to Medicaid in its history, the Senate package is worse. The latest from the CBO shows that the Senate bill cuts even steeper into Medicaid and the health system on which we all rely, with over $900 billion in cuts to coverage, to hospitals and health systems, and to states.
“Americans voted for affordability, not for a budget bill that would raise health costs in both public and private coverage, and not the slashing of our health care system and social safety net. If this bill moves forward, millions of people will lose their health care, hospitals will be forced to close or scale back services, state budgets will be thrown into crisis, and working families will be forced to forgo health care or other basic needs.
“The Senators and House members who voiced concerns in recent weeks about health care and Medicaid cuts should be alarmed about both this process and the final policy that is emerging, and should not vote on this bill at all without an honest assessment of how these health care cuts will impact their constituents and their state. Passing this package isn’t a political game — these votes are literal life and death decisions for so many Americans. Millions of their constituents, including low-income working families, people with disabilities, pregnant women and their babies, children, veterans, and people who rely on rural hospitals across the country, will pay the price of this disastrous bill for generations, while the wealthy and corporations reap the benefits. Families USA joins the entire health sector, from patients to plans to providers, in calling on Senators to reject this big budget betrayal that will harm millions of Americans and devastate our nation’s health care system.”
For Families USA’s summary of the health provisions of earlier House and Senate versions of this budget bill, as well as several resources on the potential impacts of the budget bill, click here.