{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://norton.house.gov/media/press-releases/norton-releases-remarks-press-conference-proposed-cut-district-columbias", "Norton Releases Remarks From Press Conference on the Proposed Cut to the District of Columbia\u2019s Federal Medical Assistance Percentage", "2025-05-02", "2025", "2025-05", "Democrat", "House", "DC", "Eleanor Holmes Norton", "N000147", "norton.house.gov", "norton", "https://norton.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) released her remarks from today\u2019s press conference with D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and city officials about the proposed cut to the Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (FMAP) in the fiscal year (FY 25) 2025 budget resolution, which she said will catastrophically harm District residents.\n\n\u201cCutting D.C.\u2019s FMAP would not only harm our residents, but also federal employees, officials and visitors from across the country. It would jeopardize care for children and families from all fifty states who come to our region\u2019s renowned hospitals for treatment,\u201d Norton said.\n\n\u201cA reduction in D.C.\u2019s FMAP would destabilize our healthcare system and adversely impact the hundreds of thousands of constituents who live, work, and receive care in D.C. each day,\u201d Norton said.\n\nNorton\u2019s full remarks follow.\n\nRemarks of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC)\n\nPress Event on Proposed Cut to District of Columbia\u2019s Federal Medical Assistance Percentage,\n\nMay 2, 2025\n\nThroughout my years in Congress, I have been a staunch supporter of Medicaid, consistently advocating for legislation to enhance its benefits for D.C. residents.\n\nI strongly oppose the proposed Medicaid cuts in the FY 25 budget resolution, especially those targeting the federal match rate for D.C., known as the Federal Medical Assistance Percentage or FMAP.\n\nReducing D.C.'s FMAP from seventy percent to the proposed fifty percent would be devastating for the nation's capital. It would create a $1.1 billion gap in D.C.\u2019s local budget, an impact that would be catastrophic. A reduction in D.C.\u2019s FMAP would destabilize our healthcare system and adversely impact the hundreds of thousands of constituents who live, work, and receive care in D.C. each day.\n\nThe proposal to reduce D.C.\u2019s FMAP is the latest in a series of attacks on D.C. The Trump administration and Republicans in Congress have consistently undermined D.C. from anti-home rule executive orders targeting the District to House Republicans' efforts to force D.C. to revert to FY 24 spending levels by omitting a longstanding provision in the continuing resolution.\n\nIn 1997, Congress passed the National Capital Revitalization and Self-Government Improvement Act to help rescue D.C. from insolvency. The Revitalization Act transferred certain functions and costs from the D.C. government to the federal government, including pensions, courts, prisons and community supervision of offenders. It also established the current 70 percent D.C. FMAP to reflect these obligations.\n\nCongress also imposes several revenue limitations on D.C. For example, D.C. cannot tax income earned in D.C. by non-residents, depriving D.C. of more than three billion dollars in annual revenue. Nor can D.C. permit buildings to exceed certain height limitations or tax its sizable federal property. These constraints are why our FMAP is set higher than many states\u2014to ensure D.C. can continue to provide vital services despite its restricted tax base.\n\nCutting D.C.\u2019s FMAP would not only harm our residents, but also federal employees, officials and visitors from across the country. It would jeopardize care for children and families from all fifty states who come to our region\u2019s renowned hospitals for treatment. To even consider these cuts is misguided and irresponsible.\n\nI urge my colleagues, particularly those on the Energy and Commerce Committee, to reject all Medicaid cuts during budget reconciliation, especially any reduction to D.C.\u2019s FMAP. The stakes are too high and our providers, our patients and our region cannot afford this.\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://norton.house.gov/media/press-releases/norton-releases-remarks-press-conference-proposed-cut-district-columbias"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.9119412861764431, "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"}