BREAKING NEWS
We Need a People’s Solution to Federal & State Health Care Cuts
California, and the nation, is at a crossroads.
Today, the House passed Trump’s inhumane One Big Beautiful Bill Act, a handout to billionaires that guts Medicaid, kicks an estimated 11 million people off their health care, and will shut down rural hospitals and clinics across the country. Here in California, Medi-Cal cuts that were negotiated between the state legislature and Governor Newsom will hit low-income Californians even harder than Trump’s plan.
NYTimes Opinion: Our State Cannot Survive This Bill
Across the country, state lawmakers like us are bracing as the federal government considers a bill that will throw state budgets into chaos and add red tape that our social service agencies do not have the capacity to administer. If the budget reconciliation bill passes Congress in anything like its current form, we will be left to deal with the fallout.
Bakersfield Californian: Community Voices: Health care, not red tape: California elected officials must protect Medicaid
Despite claims that work requirements would encourage employment, the reality is that most Medicaid recipients already work. According to recent data, 92% of Medicaid adults and 90% of Medi-Cal adults under 65 are employed, in school, or caring for others or living with disabilities that prevent full-time work.
LA Times: Fight or flight? Some California nonprofits won’t remain silent in face of Trump budget slashing
Other local nonprofits intend to fight. They have slammed Trump’s policies. They declined suggestions to alter their mission statements. They have gone to court. And one, giant St. John’s Community Health— which has provided care to the region’s working class and immigrants for 60 years — is launching a campaign to call out congressional Republicans it believes are enabling Trump budget cuts that they believe will cripple healthcare for the poor.
The Fresno Bee: David Valadao, 11 fellow Republicans draw a red line on cutting Medicaid
Two days after two Democratic federal lawmakers brought their “Fighting Oligarchy” tour to a crowd of 4,000 in Bakersfield to oppose Republican plans to cut Medicaid, Rep. David Valadao and 11 other Republicans have drawn a red line.
NBC: Advocates Rally in Palm Desert Urging Rep. Ken Calvert to Reverse Vote on Medicaid Cuts
People with disabilities, along with their families and advocates, gathered in Palm Desert Monday to voice their opposition to a proposed $880 billion cut to Medicaid. The rally took place outside the office of Congressman Ken Calvert, who recently voted to advance a federal budget plan that advocates say would gut Medi-Cal services and disrupt the lives of millions of Californians.
POLITICO: Trump pollster finds Medicaid cuts unpopular among Trump voters
A majority of people who voted for Donald Trump oppose potential moves from congressional Republicans to cut Medicaid funding, according to new polling from the firm of Tony Fabrizio, the president’s 2024 campaign pollster.
KFF: 7 Charts About Public Opinion on Medicaid
This data note provides an overview of recent KFF polling on the public’s views of and connections to Medicaid, the federal-state government health insurance for certain low-income adults and children and long-term care program for adults 65 and older and younger adults with disabilities.
HART Research: Key Issues in Healthcare: Where Voters Stand
Findings from a national survey of 1,503 voters Conducted January 16-20, 2025