Congressional Budget Office: Ciscomani & Schweikert’s Budget Plan Requires Cuts to Medicaid or Medicare to Pay for More Tax Handouts for Corporations and the Ultra-Wealthy
Ciscomani Said He Wouldn’t Support Cuts to Medicaid But Voted For The Plan Anyway
PHOENIX — Despite promises from Congressman Juan Ciscomani to not cut Medicaid, a new nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report finds that the House Republican budget bill that both Ciscomani and Congressman David Schweikert voted for last week requires cuts to Medicaid or Medicare. The GOP budget plan would use cuts to health care programs to pay for trillions of dollars in tax cuts for the wealthy.
In a letter to Speaker Johnson last month, Congressman Ciscomani made a compelling case for not cutting Medicaid, before voting for the Republican budget plan that would do just that. Ciscomani’s district has one of the largest Medicaid populations in the country.
According to NBC News:
“House Republicans can’t meet their own budget target that is necessary to pass President Donald Trump’s legislative agenda without making significant cuts to Medicare or Medicaid, the official budget scorekeeper confirmed Wednesday.
House Republicans adopted a budget blueprint last week that...instructs the House Energy and Commerce Committee to cut spending under its jurisdiction by $880 billion.
The Congressional Budget Office, a nonpartisan in-house think tank that referees the process, said that when Medicare is set aside, the total funding under the committee’s jurisdiction is $8.8 trillion over 10 years. Medicaid accounts for $8.2 trillion of that, or 93%.”
"Congressman Ciscomani said he wouldn’t cut Medicaid, because over 130,000 of his constituents rely on it to afford health care, but the numbers don’t lie: he voted for a plan to cut Medicaid to give more tax handouts to billionaires and corporations,” said Andrea Moreno, Executive Director of Honest Arizona. “The services that working Arizonans and seniors rely on are on the chopping block, and Congressman Ciscomani needs to stop voting against Arizonans and protect Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security before it’s too late.”
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