{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://mcbride.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-mcbride-condemns-republicans-deadly-plans-cut-medicaid-house-floor-people", "Rep. McBride Condemns Republican\u2019s Deadly Plans to Cut Medicaid on House Floor: \u201cPeople Will Die\u201d", "2025-05-15", "2025", "2025-05", "Democrat", "House", "DE", "Sarah McBride", "M001238", "mcbride.house.gov", "mcbride", "https://mcbride.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2014 Today, Congresswoman Sarah McBride (D-DE) delivered a speech on the floor of the US House of Representatives opposing the Republican-led proposal to make historic cuts to Medicaid\u2014 the single largest evisceration of health care in American history.\n\nIn her remarks, McBride drew from the stories of Delawareans who rely on Medicaid, and warned of the deadly consequences for children, seniors, caregivers, and people with disabilities.\n\n\u201cI rise today as a representative of the nearly one in four Delawareans who rely on Medicaid \u2014 families, children, seniors, and people with disabilities whose lives now hang in the balance,\u201d McBride said.\n\nAccording to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, this budget proposal would strip health insurance from nearly 14 million people.\n\n\u201cThat\u2019s not belt-tightening,\u201d said McBride. \u201cThat\u2019s life-threatening.\u201d\n\nMcBride highlighted the story of Caroline, a young woman from Newark with a rare condition who told her, \u201cWithout Medicaid, I could die.\u201d She also cited messages from hospital leaders, nurses, and community clinics across Delaware who have warned of irreparable harm to patients and an already-overburdened health care system.\n\n\u201cIf these cuts advance, people will die,\u201d McBride said. \u201cI didn\u2019t come to Congress to rubber-stamp cruelty. I came to fight for the people I represent\u2014for aging parents in Sussex County, for caregivers in Kent, for kids in Wilmington.\u201d\n\nMcBride detailed how the Republican budget would:\n\nRaise costs for working families \u2014 through new out-of-pocket expenses, higher premiums, and loss in coverage.\n\nCreates excessive red tape for patients, providers, and state government \u2014 barriers designed to trip people up and push them out.\n\nAnd it adds 3.7 trillion dollars to the deficit \u2014 not to expand care or invest in working people, but to fund tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans.\n\n\u201cThey are importing the worst parts of the private insurance industry into a life-saving program,\u201d McBride said. \u201cAnd when you make working people pay more for basic health care\u2014that is a tax.\u201d\n\nMcBride closed by reading a message from a Delaware single mother and health care worker who relies on Medicaid:\n\n\u201cWithout Medicaid, neither of us would have insurance. My employer doesn\u2019t offer health coverage and I can\u2019t afford the five hundred dollar a month private plan with high deductibles and out-of-pocket costs. If we lose Medicaid, we lose everything.\u201d\n\n\u201cP.S. I am a healthcare worker with a Bachelor\u2019s degree. This isn\u2019t about being too lazy to work.\u201d\n\n\u201cWe owe her\u2014and millions of others\u2014better than this,\u201d McBride said. \u201cI urge my colleagues to reject this cruel and catastrophic proposal.\u201d\n\nThe full speech is available for use here. The transcript of the speech is below.\n\n\u201cThank you, Mr. Speaker.\n\n\u201cI rise today as a representative of the nearly one in four Delawareans who rely on Medicaid \u2014 families, children, seniors, and people with disabilities whose lives now hang in the balance.\n\n\u201cRepublicans in Congress have proposed not only the largest cut to Medicaid in American history \u2014 but the single largest evisceration of health care in American history, period.\n\n\u201cAccording to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, this slash and burn proposal would strip health insurance from nearly 14 million people. That\u2019s not belt-tightening. That\u2019s life-threatening.\n\n\u201cSince the majority in Congress began advancing this plan, I\u2019ve heard from hundreds of Delawareans who can\u2019t sleep \u2014 gripped by the fear of losing the care that keeps them, or their kids, alive.\n\n\u201cCaroline, a young woman from Newark, has a rare condition that requires extensive medical intervention. Without Medicaid, she told me that she could die.\n\n\u201cCaroline, tragically, is not alone. If these cuts advance, people will die.\n\n\u201cI\u2019ve heard from doctors, nurses, hospital leaders and community health clinics across our state. They all agree: Republican cuts to Medicaid will do irreparable harm \u2014 eliminating a lifeline for their patients and putting further strain on our hospital systems that are already facing a workforce crisis.\n\n\u201cBut let\u2019s talk about what\u2019s actually in the Republican proposal.\n\n\u201cThe majority party wants to impose needless and excessive paperwork requirements that serve no purpose but to push people off the rolls. They are importing the worst parts of the private health insurance industry, needless bureaucratic barriers and excessive paperwork, into a life-saving program to make it harder to qualify for care. All to pad the pockets of the ultra-wealthy.\n\n\u201cAnd if that weren\u2019t enough, the bill also includes what can only be described as a back door abortion ban \u2014 prohibiting Medicaid funding from going to family planning clinics that provide abortion services, even if that funding isn\u2019t used for abortion care. This means shuttering access to trusted providers and family planning clinics\u2014especially in rural areas where options are already scarce.\n\n\u201cThey\u2019re doing all of this while forcing working families to pay more out of pocket. When you make working people pay more for basic health care \u2014 that is a tax. Republicans in Congress want to tax the health care of working people all to just partially pay for tax cuts for the wealthiest.\n\n\u201cThis administration and Republicans promised Americans three things last year: lower costs, cutting red tape, and bringing down the deficit.\n\n\u201cBut let\u2019s review what their budget will do:\n\n\u201cIt raises costs for working families across the country \u2014 through new out-of-pocket expenses, higher premiums, and loss in coverage.\n\n\u201cIt creates new bureaucratic red tape for patients, providers, and state government \u2014 barriers designed to trip people up and push them out.\n\n\u201cAnd it adds 3.7 trillion dollars to the deficit \u2014 not to expand care or invest in working people, but to fund tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans.\n\n\u201cI didn\u2019t come to Congress to rubber-stamp cruelty. I came to fight for the people I represent\u2014for aging parents in Sussex County, for caregivers in Kent, for kids in Wilmington.\n\n\u201cLet me end with the words of another Delawarean, a single mom:\n\n\u201cWithout Medicaid, neither of us would have insurance. My employer doesn\u2019t offer health coverage and I can\u2019t afford the five hundred dollar a month private plan with high deductibles and out-of-pocket costs. If we lose Medicaid, we lose everything.\u201d\n\n\u201cShe added this: \u201cP.S. I am a healthcare worker with a Bachelor\u2019s degree. This isn\u2019t about being too lazy to work.\u201d\n\n\u201cWe owe her \u2014 and millions of others \u2014 better than this.\n\n\u201cI urge my colleagues to reject this cruel and catastrophic proposal.\n\n\u201cThank you. I yield back my time.\u201d\n\n###\n\nDelaware\u2019s Congresswoman Sarah McBride serves on the House Foreign Affairs Committee and its Subcommittees on Europe and on Oversight & Intelligence, she also serves on the House Space, Science and Technology Committee and its subcommittee on Research and Technology. 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