Protesters criticized Orange County Congressman on Tuesday, which could be a critical vote on President Trump's proposal to reduce more than $ 1 billion in federal dollars who helped pay medical attention for those in need and extend tax cuts for millions of Americans.
The proposal of “a great law of the bill” of Trump “approved little the Senate of the United States hours before hundreds of people met in a dead end outside the Anaheim field office of the Republican representative Young Kim to protest those cuts. The legislation must still be voted by the House of Representatives of the United States, which could happen before the end of the week.
“I don't know why they call it beautiful, because there is nothing about it.” Young Kim representative, listen to our crying, listen to our voices. We need our Medicaid. We cannot pay this type of reckless cuts and behaviors. “
A security guard blocked the parking lot in the Kim office and at least half a dozen police officers from Anaheim saw the protest develop.
Several people who seemed to be Kim employees saw the demonstration from outside the building before they launched when the protesters marched to the building, tried to enter without success and then began to sing “Shame! What shame!”
In a statement, Kim said his door was always open to the Californians in his district.
“I understand that some of my components are worried and I know how important are Medicaid services for many in my community, so I voted to protect and strengthen Medicaid services for our most vulnerable citizens who really need it,” Kim said. “I have met with many of these local health defenders in recent months.”
Trump's proposal would dramatically review the Tax Code of the Nation by making the cuts approve during the first term of the permanent president, an important benefit for corporations and rich nation, while reducing funds for historical programs of federal networks that include Medicaid and the complementary nutritional assistance program, which helps provide food to low -income Americans.
Approximately 15 million Californians, more than a third of the state, are in Medi-Cal, the version of the state of Medicaid, with some of the highest percentages in rural counties that supported Trump in the November elections. More than half of California's children receive medical care coverage through Medi-Cal.
The United States Representatives Chamber approved a version of the Republican bill with the support of Kim. The United States Senate approved little amended version of the bill on Tuesday. The dropout of three Republican senators meant that Vice President JD Vance had to cast the draw vote to be approved in that camera.
The Chamber and the Senate will now work to reconcile their two different versions of the bill. This week was a work week of the district for the members of the Congress, but the president of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) ordered the members to return to Washington, DC, by votes on the bill that could occur on Wednesday or Thursday.
Republicans hope to obtain legislation to President Trump's desk for his firm before Friday, Independence Day, although there is some concern among their members about whether they will have enough votes to approve the bill due to possible defections and the united democratic opposition.
An analysis published by the Non -Party Congress Budget Office estimated on Sunday that the version of the Senate of the proposal would increase the national deficit by almost $ 3.3 billion from 2025 to 2034 and would result in that 11.8 million Americans lose health insurance in less than a decade.
Trump praised the approval of the bill on social networks and urged the Chamber's Republicans to support the Senate Plan.
The proposal has caused a crack within the Republican Party, and some members of the Chamber have expressed reservations about the measure due to the amount it would add to the nation's deficit and its impact on its components.
“From the beginning I have been clear that I will not support a draft final reconciliation that makes harmful cuts to Medicaid, puts at risk critical funds or threatens the stability of medical care suppliers” in their Congress district, representative David Valadao (R-Hanford) wrote on the social media site X on Sunday.
It represents more than half a million residents of the Central Valley who trust in Medicaid, most of any district of the Congress in California, according to the UC Berkeley Labor Center. A Valadao spokesman on Tuesday did not answer a question about how the congressman planned to vote.
The Orange of Kim's County is richer than that of Valadao, but approximately one in five of its voters depends on Medicaid.
The congresswoman was on her way to Washington at the time of protest, according to a spokesman.
Outside his Anaheim field office, the protester after the protester described how the bill would affect vulnerable Californians, such as disabled children, the elderly, veterans and those who would lose access to reproductive medical care.
“Bets have never been higher. We are living at a time when our rights are under attack,” said Emily Escobar, public defense manager of Planned Parenthood of Orange and San Bernardino counties.
She said that federal funds do not pay for abortions, but help pay other vital medical care, such as cancer exams, preventive care, tests and treatment for sexually transmitted infections and access to contraception. More than a third of Planned Parenthood patients throughout the country reside in California.
These cuts will lead to closed clinics, effectively reducing access to abortion, said Escobar.
“Let me clarify this, this bill is a prohibition of rear door abortion,” he said.
Shari Home, 73, said she and her husband were weighing how to divide her social security income into food, medications and medical supplies after her husband, who suffers several chronic health conditions, fell last year.
“The hospitalizations were very expensive, so we requested and obtained Medi-Cal in January and food assistance, and has been a lifeguard,” said Laguna Woods resident. “Without Medi-Cal, I don't know what we would do. Our lives wouldn't be good. We wouldn't have the medications it needs.”
Michelle del Rosario, 57, had a button imagining his son William, 25, in his blouse. The Orange resident, one of the Kim components who previously voted for her, is the main caregiver of her son, who has autism, epilepsy and does not speak.
His son is based on his medi-Cal coverage for his convulsive medicine from $ 5,000 to month, as well as support for the health of the home he receives, he said.
“He lives at home. He has wishes, at some point, living independently, working, but he needs” these support services for that to happen, said Del Rosario.
