John,

House Republicans are in their second long day of hearings aimed at defining exactly how they will cut $880 billion from Medicaid to pay for their multi-trillion dollar tax cuts for the rich. Republicans are still pushing forward. But we’re not making it easy for them:

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Michael Phelan
Social Security Works

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John,

Republicans are preparing to give trillions in tax handouts to millionaires and billionaires. How do they plan to pay for these tax handouts? By stealing health care from 13.7 million Americans, including destroying Medicaid as a functioning system for millions of seniors, children, and people with disabilities.

Older Americans and their families are often shocked to learn that, under most circumstances, Medicare doesn’t cover long-term care. Medicaid does. In fact, Medicaid pays for over 60 percent of nursing home care.¹ It also covers other types of long-term care, such as in-home care. And, Medicaid covers premiums and out-of-pocket costs for millions of low-income people with Medicare.

This is what Republicans want to gut, just to give Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and their buddies at Mar-a-Lago another tax cut. We’re going to stop them ― but we can only do it if you chip in $7 today.

To qualify for Medicaid long-term care, many seniors have to “spend down” their assets and savings. This is morally wrong. We will never stop fighting for a Medicare for All system, where everyone in America gets high-quality health care that is free at point of service. But as flawed as the current system is, it’s far better than the Republican alternative — ripping away Medicaid, so that seniors who need long-term care (and other care not covered by Medicare) can’t get it at all.

Make no mistake: Republican Medicaid cuts will devastate seniors, ripping away critical care. Republicans are planning to make $880 billion in spending cuts to pay for their tax handout to the wealthy, and the majority of those cuts will come from Medicaid. It is impossible to cut hundreds of billions from Medicaid without hurting massive numbers of seniors.

Several of the Medicaid cuts they are considering² amount to different ways of giving states far fewer federal dollars to spend on Medicaid. That means states will have to scale back their Medicaid programs, which will inevitably hurt seniors.

These cuts will hit all hospitals, but will almost immediately devastate rural hospitals, which rely on federal Medicaid dollars to stay afloat. America’s Essential Hospitals, the group representing these hospitals, says³ that the Republican plan “would cause children, pregnant patients, and disabled people to lose access to their coverage. Older populations living in nursing homes would also risk losing their health care coverage.”

If Republicans pass their Medicaid cuts into law, hospitals around the country — disproportionately in red states, which are more rural — will close.⁴ That’s on top of 200 rural hospitals that have already closed in the last decade. These closures won’t just impact people on Medicaid. They will devastate entire communities that rely on these hospitals.

If these cuts go through, people will die. Period. We have to stop this dangerous budget. The House Committees are meeting TODAY to finalize these cuts ― so we need to take action now! Chip in!

Seniors with medical emergencies are in no position to drive hundreds of miles to a different hospital. This will also increase the burden on family caregivers, who will now have to travel further to get their spouse or aging parents to the hospital. The bottom line: People will die because they can’t get the care they need.

At the same time Republicans are planning these enormous Medicaid cuts, the Trump-Musk regime is breaking Social Security. They’ve pushed out 7,000 of the public servants who help Americans claim their earned benefits, with more layoffs to come. Field offices around the country have lost half their staff, leading to much longer wait times — if you can get an appointment at all.

Like the planned Medicaid cuts, these Social Security cuts are disproportionately hurting people living in rural areas and people with disabilities. If they can’t navigate the increasingly glitchy website, they may have to travel hundreds of miles to a Social Security office for an appointment.

The Musk henchmen running Social Security are also wrongly declaring people dead, cutting them off from their earned benefits as well as their credit cards and bank accounts — financial murder. People are flooding overwhelmed field offices, desperate to fix the error. In one keystroke, the Trump-Musk regime is ruining their lives. And Congressional Republicans want to ruin the lives of millions more seniors, by taking away their Medicaid.

All of this suffering is completely preventable. America is the wealthiest country in the history of the world. Republicans want to rip health care away from millions of people to give tax cuts to billionaires. Instead, let’s make those billionaires pay their fair share — and use the money to give everyone in America the health care they need.

Donate today to stop the Republican assault on Medicaid!

Thank you,

Alex Lawson
Social Security Works

P.S. I was outside the hearing with dozens of activists risking arrest at the House Energy and Commerce Committee while the House debated Medicaid cuts today. Check out the video here!

¹ https://www.protectourcare.org/fact-sheet-medicaid-is-essential-for-seniors-older-adults-coverage/
² https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/upshot/republicans-medicaid-states-plans.html
³ https://essentialhospitals.org/provider-taxes-preserve-access-to-care/
⁴ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/opinion/medicaid-cuts-rural-hospitals.html