{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://golden.house.gov/media/press-releases/golden-votes-against-gop-s-reckless-budget-bill", "Golden votes against GOP\u2019s reckless budget bill", "2025-05-22", "2025", "2025-05", "Democrat", "House", "ME", "Jared F. Golden", "G000592", "golden.house.gov", "golden", "https://golden.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2014 Congressman Jared Golden (ME-02) this morning voted against the GOP\u2019s budget reconciliation bill, which would take health care away from millions of Americans, further rig the tax code in favor of the wealthiest households and corporations and add $3.1 trillion to the national debt by 2034.\n\nThe bill passed along party lines in a 215-214 vote.\n\n\u201cThe House GOP had every opportunity to work across the aisle to write a budget that put middle-class families first. Instead, they\u2019re ramming through an extreme agenda that takes health care away from the working poor and borrows trillions of dollars to fund a package of tax cuts tilted in favor of those at the top,\u201d Golden said. \u201cMainers want more health care, not less. They want a tax code where everyone pays their fair share. And they want Congress to get its fiscal house in order. This bill fails on each of those fronts, so this is one of the easiest \u2018no\u2019 votes I\u2019ve ever taken.\u201d\n\nThe budget bill \u2014 crafted under reconciliation rules that will allow it to pass with a simple majority in the Senate \u2014 would cut $800 billion from Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act (ACA).\n\nMedicaid provides health coverage to 236,000 people in CD2 \u2014 more than one-third of the population \u2014 according to KFF, while roughly 50,000 Mainers qualify for health insurance tax credits on the state\u2019s ACA marketplace, coverME.gov. The bill\u2019s elimination of enhanced ACA tax credits will increase health care costs by an average of $180 per month for tens of thousands of Mainers.\n\nThe bill\u2019s cuts to food assistance through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance program \u2014 which helps 1 in 8 Mainers get the food they need \u2014 will put more than 18 million kids nationally at risk of losing school meals.\n\nThe bill uses those savings to partially cover the cost of roughly $5 trillion in tax cuts, with most of the benefit going to the wealthiest households through provisions such as tax breaks for millionaire heirs and deductions for high-income households in high-income states. \u201cIn 2027 it gives households earning more than $1 million a year an annual tax cut of roughly $90,000, while low-income households receive an average of just $90 from the tax cuts \u2014 the same households who will then bear the brunt of cuts to Medicaid and SNAP,\u201d according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.\n\nIn a last-minute amendment to the bill, House GOP Leadership added language that bans insurance plans sold on the ACA marketplace from covering abortion care \u2014 an attack on women\u2019s reproductive freedom made under cover of darkness.\n\nFinally, the bill continues Congress\u2019s bad habit of using deficit spending to finance federal expenditures, running up a national debt that threatens the future of critical programs such as Medicare and Social Security. The reconciliation bill would add $3.1 trillion to the national debt, according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. This comes at a time when interest on the debt costs the federal government more every year than on national defense or Medicare and second only to Social Security as an annual line item in the federal budget\n\nThe bill now heads to the Senate for consideration.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T00:49:36Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://golden.house.gov/media/press-releases/golden-votes-against-gop-s-reckless-budget-bill"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.1414880864322186, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}