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03.26.2025 / Press Release

Organizations Unite in the Hundreds to Urge Senate Majority Leader to Reject Proposal to Take Health Care Away from Millions of Americans

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Families USA is today leading more than 315 national, state, and local organizations representing health care consumers, patients, providers and workers in calling on Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) to reject the House Republican budget that would decimate Medicaid and strip health benefits from millions of Americans.

This week the Senate is considering modifications to the House budget resolution that would require the Energy and Commerce Committee to find $880 billion in cuts, which cannot be achieved without gutting the Medicaid program, as confirmed by the Congressional Budget Office earlier this month. Any version of a budget resolution that requires hundreds of billions of dollars in cuts to Medicaid represents an attack on health care for millions of low-income families, children, people with disabilities, veterans, and older adults in order to fund tax cuts for the wealthy few.

“No matter how cuts to Medicaid are framed, the end result would be devastating to American families and communities in every state. Medicaid is already a lean program; the cuts required by the House budget resolution would blow a hole in state budgets, forcing them to offset financial losses by either raising taxes or dropping people from coverage, eliminating critical health services, or cutting payments that support rural hospitals, community clinics, nursing homes and other providers — delaying care and driving up costs for everyone,”  the organizations stated in their letter.

Medicaid is a lifeline for communities across the country, providing affordable health coverage to:

  • Nearly 80 million Americans — 1 in 5 people in the United States — including 37 million children.
  • 14 million people living in rural areas.
  • More than 8 million people with disabilities.
  • 7 million seniors and 12 million Medicare enrollees.

Families USA, the longtime health care consumer advocate, is organizing with groups across the nation to protect Medicaid from severe cuts, caps or other regulations that will result in millions of Americans losing access to the health care they need. This is the latest in a series of coordinated efforts leading hundreds of organizations to call on Congress and the Trump administration to reject cuts to Medicaid and work to make health care more affordable, not less.

For additional resources, see Families USA’s fact sheets on Medicaid cuts have devastating outcomes on families, health systems and communities, how work reporting requirements would undermine access to Medicaid, and on the importance of Medicaid to people, the economy and the health care system.