02.12.2025 / Statement

Families USA Statement on House Republicans’ Budget Resolution Signaling their Intent for Major Medicaid Cuts

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Anthony Wright, executive director of Families USA, today released the following statement after House Republicans released their budget resolution. Notably, the resolution calls for the House Energy and Commerce Committee to cut nearly $900 billion in spending, a clear signal of the intent to make significant cuts to Medicaid that will devastate health benefits for millions of Americans across the country.

“This budget resolution is a five-alarm fire alert for our health care. Despite President Trump saying last week they were going to ‘love and cherish’ Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, House Republicans today released their intent to make devastating cuts of nearly $900 billion — cuts that would decimate health care coverage for millions of Americans and upend the health system we all rely on. House Republican leadership put a giant bullseye on Medicaid, with the intent to strip Americans of their health care benefits to pay for tax cuts for billionaires and big corporations. The magnitude of these health cuts is on a similar scale to Republicans’ previous attempts to “repeal and replace” the ACA — but this time it is even more clear that it is repeal without any replacement, leaving many Americans uninsured, living sicker and dying younger and one emergency from financial ruin.

“We don’t need to know the mechanisms of how Medicaid would be cut to know the impact would be catastrophic: the sheer size of the proposed cuts means millions of Americans losing coverage, hospitals and clinics plunged into budget shortfalls, and health care services we all depend on being eliminated. The end result would be disastrous for local economies, especially in rural and working class areas. This is not what the American people sent their representatives to Congress to do. This House budget resolution is a direct betrayal of the very people in working class, rural and other communities who voted for Republican leaders to bring lower costs. We have already heard concerns from governors, state lawmakers, and even some Republican Members of the House of Representatives that these kinds of cuts would be harmful to their constituents and should be off the table for budget legislation. These policymakers should use their power now to tell their colleagues to reject a budget that cuts the health care of their own constituents and communities to fund tax breaks for the wealthiest.”