“One Big, Beautiful Bill” by President Donald Trump can be one great pain for republicans from Pennsylvania who voted for it, Hoping that they stick to space next year.
The act, which is unpopular among voters who heard about it, according to the survey, went on Thursday home 218-214, and now goes out to Trump’s desk, where it is to sign the sweeping packet of national expenditure on the fourth of July the grave event.
All of the members of the Republican Chamber of Pennsylvania voted for the act. US representative Brian Fitzpatrick, a moderate, who represents Purple Bucks, voted against the act and emphasized the possible explosion to come to his colleagues because of him: Medicaid.
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Fitzpatrick said in a statement that “this is the amendments of the Senate to Medicaid, in addition to several other regulations of the Senate,” changed his opinion after the prior support of the legislation version.
For months, democrats from Pennsylvania, of which everyone voted against it, pointed to the cuts of the Medicaid act and the food assistance program as well as the elimination of tax breaks in a given country with thousands of energy places, as a potentially destructive for pennsylvaven. Even some Republican members of the Congress sounded alarms that the law and politically law could be bad news for the party.
“It is inevitable that this act reveals the promise made by Donald Trump,” said Republican Senator Thom Tillis from North Carolina on the Senate floor, in particular citing Medicaid reduction. “I tell the president that you have been incorrectly informed. You support the Senate sign, will harm people qualifying and qualified for Medicaid.”
Tillis, who drew Trump’s anger for his opposition, soon announced that he did not apply for re -election.
The recent Quinnipiac survey showed that 53% of voters oppose the regulations compared to 27% who support them. Meanwhile, one in five voters did not hear about Mega-Bill. And only 10% of voters believe that Medicaid financing should be reduced.
Among republican voters, only 18% stated that they believe that federal funding Medicaid should decrease.
Now democrats see the opportunity in four districts in which the Republicans won the lowest margins in the state last year. They point to 12 million people forecast by partisan analysts in the budget congress to lose health care and describe the act as cruel and potentially fatal. They look at first graders of American representatives. Rob Bresnahan, in the north -east and Ryan Mackenzie in the Lehigh Valley and Scott Perry Veteran in York. Democratic agents also did not allow Fitzpatrick to break away from the hook, paying attention to his earlier support for the account at home.
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US representative Suzan Delbene (D., Wash.), Chairman of the Democratic Commission of the Congress Campaign, said that voting would be crucial in the fight to regain the chamber.
“This large, ugly account is a list of Republican laundries towards the American people,” Delbene said in a statement. “DCC will make sure that every battlefield voter knows how sensitive republicans of houses – including Mackenza, Bresnahan and Perry – abandoned them, conveying them, conveying the most unpopular legal act in the modern history of America.”
Republicans think that they can sell an account for expanding tax reductions and increased defense and expenditure to the border. They claim that Medicaid changes eliminate fraud and that work requirements for the program are generally popular.
Because most of the changes in the program will not be taken into account only in 2027 or 2028. It is also unclear whether a typical voter will feel influence in half.
But even GOP analysts note that the Republicans have an raise in the battle to sell the law to voters.
“Everyone wants to eliminate waste, fraud and abuse … and everyone wants some work requirements. These things are well messed,” said GOP consultant in Pennsylvania, Chris Nicholas.
“But unfortunately for republicans” do not cut Medicaid “also tests well.”
Democratic offensive
Shortly before the last fragment of the Act, the governor Josh Shapiro called for every member of the Republican Pennsylvanian home in social media, as well as state projections regarding the number of people in their districts lost the benefits of Medicaid or Snap Benefits under the Act.
“To our members of the Congress considering voting for this law: if so, you do it, knowing the consequences that he will have in Pennsylvania and in your districts,” said Shapiro, Democrat.
“BIG, Beautiful Bill” can also play in the Governor’s Governor’s race, in which at least one member of GOP House, US representative Dan Meuser from North -Eastern Pennsylvania, expressed interest. From Shapiro to re -election in 2026, he will probably become a key spokesman for democratic evaporation against the members of the Chamber who voted for the act.
Shapiro said that out of 3 million Pennsylvania enrolled in Snap 140,000 may lose their benefits. On Monday, Shapiro went so far that Snap can still exist in a state of change.
His office also estimated 310,000 out of 3 million Pennsylvania, who receive Medicaid, will lose their benefits in the event of further cuts.
Other Democrats laid a swing of districts throughout the country. US Senator Chris Coons left his family state Delaware this week to connect with Medicaid cuts in Luzerne in the Bresnahan district, after which he gathered in Harrisburg, near the Perry district.
Seven groups, including the protection of our care, the majority of houses and Aarp, already have television advertising in the districts of the swing, including Pennsylvania, blowing up the Republicans who support the bill.
Trump won Pennsylvania, still increasing his support for Americans from the working class, who thought the prices were too high and the economy did not work for them. Now the Democrats point to votes for the law as an attack on working class voters, in particular the expansion of medicaid-consumption, to a gigantic extent working, competent adults whose income is low enough to obtain protection.
It is expected that the population will wear the burden of medicaid cuts, which democrats in the Philadelphia region have been warning for months, may have a greater impact on a city with a high poverty indicator, in which hundreds of thousands of inhabitants also rely on Snap.
Some Republican voters have already expressed the frustration by law. During the last telephone town hall with the first -grade USA, senator Dave McCormick (R., Pa.) A woman who described herself as a conservative, said that “she was not satisfied with a large, beautiful bill”, indicating the loss of tax breaks for energy tax for the solar industry.
“It will remain without subsidies that will almost kill the industry,” she said.
The self -proclaimed “allotment of the Republican” told McCormick that as a therapist of mental health he opposed Medicaid cuts. “These cuts seem to cut the whole program that will affect the people I have worked with,” he said.
Mailers came out in the north -eastern district of Pennsylvania Bresnahan in the north -eastern part of Pennsylvania shortly after his first vote, which was promoted to the law. 8. Bresnahan’s congress district has the most medicaid recipients in any republican district, and the third most general in Pennsylvania. Fresh legislator defended widespread cuts.
“I actually receive my own mail suggesting that I cut or remove these rights,” said Bresnahan in the spring town hall. “I want you to know that I will fight for the protection of family working class families in northeastern Pennsylvania, and I will also stand with President Trump, opposing Medicaid.”
Bresnahan, like many Republicans defending Medicaid changes, said that he supports “removal of illegal aliens with Rolls” and introducing work requirements for competent adults.
But Pennsylvania is not among 14 states that issue health insurance services on undocumented immigrants.
In the requirements for work, most – about eight out of 10 – adults on Medicaid, who would be subject to the principle, either act or qualify for dismissal under law, in accordance with the national statistics of KFF, Non -Profit of health policy. This leaves a miniature population of people who do not work.
According to one on four Pennsylvania, who are subject to work requirements, may wrongly lose protection non -Profit pennsylvania Health Access NetworkDue to the potentially troublesome reporting requirements.
“There are more taxpayers … than people on medicaid”
Mackenzie, a republican legislator from Lehigh Valley, said in an interview against voting on Thursday that he supported legislation because “he provides historical tax relief, secures the border, invests in our future and is significant positive reforms of the government.”
He called Medicaid a “very important program” and the requirements of work “reasonable update”.
Asked if he felt confident that he was expected that 11 million people lost health insurance, he did not need it, Mackenzie did not answer directly. He spent a fund of $ 50 billion to aid in rural hospitals compensate for the loss of Medicaid payment, some of which will “definitely” come to Pennsylvania.
While the bill is unpopular among voters who have heard about it, Last survey of US priorities Almost half of the Americans were found, 48%, no.
Republicans are planning an offensive in the coming days To define a 900-page account in their categories, focusing on other aspects, such as sending a high amount to border security and expanding tax reductions in 2017.
But they are also prepared to defend against Medicaid, said Mike Marinella, national press secretary of the National Republican Congress Committee.
“Democrats perceive Medicaid as a problem with the silver bullet, but we feel quite free by entering this arena,” he said, noting that some of the key changes in the program, such as the elimination of fraud and introducing work requirements, are popular among voters.
Ultimately, Republicans bet that taxpayers will focus on tax relief, said Nicholas, said GOP analyst from Pennsylvania.
“Let’s face the truth,” he said. “There are more taxpayers in the country than Medicaid people.”
