EXCLUSIVE -And measure that the leaders of the Republican Party of the House of Representatives advance the so -called “Great and Beautiful bill” of a floor vote this week, the Democrats, who are minority, are sounding a warning.
“We are going to hold the Republicans responsible and there will be a price to pay,” said Representative Suzan Delbene of the State of Washington, president of the campaign committee of the Democratic Congress, emphasized the mid -period elections next year during a Fox News digital interview.
Republicans cling to an extremely thin majority in the camera at this time, and Democrats only need a three -seat collection to recover most of the camera in the 2026 elections.
In addition, they see the root and controversial artisanal republican measure supplied with Trump's second term priorities in tax cuts, immigration, defense, energy and debt limit, which currently opens the way through numerous votes and obstacles in the chamber, as political ammunition.
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President Donald Trump, on the left, and the president of the Mike Johnson Chamber, Republican of LA-LA. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, INC through Getty Images)
“This is a terrible piece of legislation,” Delbene argued.
Democrats throughout the party are highlighting in the restructuring of Medicaid by the Republicans, the almost 60 -year federal government program that provides health insurance for approximately 71 million adults and children with limited income.
“Let's be clear, all that Republicans are talking about at this time is how many people and how fast they will take away medical attention. They have these huge cuts to Medicaid, 14 million people lose medical attention throughout the country, and they are talking about how quickly they can do it,” he accused Tuesday.
She affirmed that the Republicans of the House of Representatives are “all blind to the President and will follow him blindly outside the cliff.”
The representative Ted Lace of California, another member of the Democratic Leadership of the House of Representatives, argued when he took questions from the journalists that the bill “has the greatest cut for medical care in the history of the United States.”
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The clippings to Medicaid, which are partially written as compensation to pay to extend Trump's tax cuts law in 2017, which will expire at the end of this year, include a series of new rules and regulatory requirements for those who seek coverage. Among them there is a new set of work requirements for many of those looking for coverage.
“When you enter the country and talk to people, people are outraged and scared. They are afraid of the cuts to medical care, not only eliminate 14 million people from medical care, but then increase the costs beyond that for all and things like the rural hospitals that closed,” said Delbene. “This would have devastating impacts throughout the country. This is a policy for which Republicans are fighting, reducing nutritional health programs so that families do not even have healthy foods.”
Republicans of the House of Representatives reject the attacks of the Democrats and say that what they are doing is ending the waste, fraud and abuse currently in the Medicaid system, so the program can work for the public in the way it was intended.
They call any talk that they are reducing aid to mothers, children, people with disabilities and the elderly a “lies of floors.”
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Delbene replied, saying: “We are not buying the argument because what we have seen in the committee, what they have written on paper are mass cuts in medical care and everything to pay tax exemptions for the richest in our country. This is not a bill in helping working families. This bill is devastating by working families.”
However, his counterpart, representative Richard Hudson of North Carolina, president of the National Committee of the Republican Congress, told Fox News Digital in a statement that “Republicans are finishing waste, fraud and abuse in Medicaid, so the most vulnerable obtain the attention they need.”
The representative Richard Hudson of North Carolina, president of the National Committee of the Republican Congress, is interviewed by Fox News Digital on April 7, 2025 in Washington, DC (Fox News – Paul Steinhauser)
In addition, Hudson argued that “Democrats are lying to protect a broken status quo that allows illegal immigrants to divert billions for American families. We are strengthening Medicaid for future generations protecting taxpayers and restoring integrity.”
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With the presidential campaign last year, Trump has promised not to play Medicaid. On Tuesday, when he made a rare stop at Capitol Hill to meet behind closed doors with the Republicans of the House of Representatives to underpin the support of the bill, Trump's message to fiscally conservative legislators who seek to make more cuts to Medicaid were “do not fuck with Medicaid.”
While there are divisions between Republicans over Medicaid and an abyss between the two main parties on the long -standing right program, there is a point of agreement: this problem will continue over heat in the campaign in one way or another long after the legislative battles in Capitol Hill end.
