By: Mia Villasenor and Madeline Morcelle
Executive Summary
At a time when health care costs are skyrocketing, Congress should be supporting communities by strengthening Medicaid, restoring and extending enhanced premium tax credits for Marketplace coverage, as well as ensuring access to preventive, sexual, and reproductive health care. Instead, through H.R. 1, President Trump and his allies in Congress cut Medicaid, Medicare, the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and Marketplace coverage by more than a trillion dollars, dramatically expanding funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) violent mass deportation, detention, family separation, and anti-democracy efforts. In a letter organized by Planned Parenthood Action Fund and the National Health Law Program, 141 health advocacy and allied organizations urged Congress to prioritize health care access over funding weaponized immigration agencies wreaking havoc in our communities.
