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Chicago, IL — In case you missed it, there is new reporting detailing how Illinois Democrats are pushing back after House Republicans—including Illinois’s own Mike Bost, Mary Miller and Darin LaHood—passed an anti-working family budget resolution this week. The resolution cuts “$2 trillion in spending over a decade to fund President Donald Trump’s tax plan — and top Republicans have targeted Medicaid.”
“Republicans are carrying water for millionaires, billionaires and Donald Trump at the expense of everyday Americans. Time and again, MAGA Republicans have shown their hand. For them, the rich’s interests matter more than health care for their constituents. Trump’s ego matters more than support for rural hospitals. And enabling Elon Musk, the richest person in America, is more important than keeping families healthy,” said DPI Chair Lisa Hernandez.
Key excerpts from Crain’s Chicago Business: Pritzker, Dems warn of Medicaid doomsday under Trump budget
By: Jon Asplund
- The Trump administration’s efforts to cut Medicaid spending nationwide, detailed in the federal budget passed in the House this week, could cripple Medicaid in Illinois, imperiling health coverage for roughly a quarter of all residents, state leaders said at a press conference this morning
- Almost 3.4 million people, including half the children in the state, are covered by Medicaid, Pritzker said. Medicaid is the largest insurer of people in nursing homes, he noted.
- “Hospitals will close, people will lose their jobs. . . .It will be gone. People will die, and blood will be on the hands of the Trump-Vance administration and the Republicans in Congress,” Pritzker said.
Key excerpts from Chicago Sun-Times: JB Pritzker warns of Medicaid cuts, pushes White House to release $1.88B in funds
By: Tina Sfondeles
- Illinois has a “trigger” law that would automatically end Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansions in the state if federal funding is cut — which means some 770,000 Illinoisans who were provided coverage in 2024 would lose their health coverage.
- “There’s no chance that the state of Illinois could pay the $7.5 billion to keep everybody covered,” Pritzker said at an unrelated news conference on Wednesday. “It’s devastating for the people who will lose coverage, not to mention the rural hospitals across the state, not to mention for safety net hospitals.”
- “That’s just the reality that if Donald Trump and the Republican Congress eliminate the Medicaid expansion, we will have people who get sick and die because they don’t have coverage from that Medicaid expansion,” Pritzker said.
