Russell Vought had no shame or second thoughts about lying to the American people about this bill.
It's because they know it's unpopular and they're hoping Americans are not informed.
Don't let them win.
Congress Member Profile|U.S. Representative|Democrat|Texas District 16
Veronica Escobar
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Yes42%
No56%
Present0%
Not Voting2%
Party align98%
Cross-party0%
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Veronica Escobar
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The Center for American Progress identified nearly 200 rural hospitals that were kept open by Medicaid funding.
If the Republican budget bill is signed into law, they could all close down.
www.americanprogress.org/article/medi...
Don't just take my word for it.
Even Republicans like Senator Josh Hawley have acknowledged all of this already.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/o...
It WILL hurt Americans who rely on Medicaid for healthcare.
It WILL hurt Americans who work at hospitals that shut down.
It WILL hurt Americans in rural communities that'll no longer have access to healthcare.
Which brings us to his final point: 5. "No one will lose coverage."
When your whole argument is that the cuts are only to prevent "fraud, waste, and abuse" and "kick undocumented migrants off Medicaid," but the data doesn't support it, who will it hurt?
4. "There's undocumented immigrants on Medicaid."
This could be its own thread, but for now, let's be clear: undocumented immigrants are already not allowed to be on Medicaid.
www.kff.org/racial-equit...
Take Arkansas. They implemented work requirements and 25% of people subject to them lost coverage because of the reporting and documentation requirements.
This created a bureaucracy (which Trump has attacked) that directly led to less coverage.
www.cbpp.org/research/hea...
3. "We need more work requirements because there's too many people on Medicaid and SNAP not working."
The only part that "works" about work requirements is that they kick more people off programs with new red tape. More red tape = people are less inclined to use the program.
CMS also recorded that the improper payment rate last year was just over 5%, nowhere near what Vought falsely cites to justify cutting hundreds of billions of dollars.
www.cms.gov/data-researc...
According to the agency that administers Medicaid, CMS, improper payments can be overpayments, underpayments, or payments where insufficient information was provided to determine whether a payment was proper.
www.cms.gov/newsroom/fac...
Classifying payments as "improper" is one of the ways the government measures administrative performance in Medicaid, Medicare, and other federal programs.
As the Georgetown McCourt School of Public Policy points out, improper payments are not fraud.
ccf.georgetown.edu/2025/03/13/m...
2. He says that "1 out of every $5 or $6 in Medicaid is improper." Clearly his implication is that because of this data, it's justified to cut ~20% of Medicaid.
What he chooses to leave out is that "improper" is a specific term used by the government.
1. The Republican budget bill "preserves and protects" social safety net programs.
A blatant lie as I'm unaware of how cutting over a trillion dollars and kicking millions of Americans off health care is "preserving and protecting" this program.
In case you're not familiar with Vought, he's a right-wing Trump loyalist who's worked for him for years.
He wrote a chapter for Project 2025 arguing for the "aggressive use of the vast powers of the executive branch."
So what were his lies?
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Over the weekend, the White House Director of the Office of Management and Budget and Project 2025 author Russell Vought spent his morning on CNN lying about the Republican budget bill.
Let's break this down 🧵
Republicans are laser-focused on the issues that matter to Americans:
Kicking Americans off their healthcare
Taking food away from American families
Renaming the DC metro after their dear leader
Authoritarianism doesn't just happen overnight.
Alarm bells should be going off for every American when newspapers that are supposed to keep elected officials in check instead cave for fear of retribution, financial loss, or both.
Today, let us honor the men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice in service of our country.
Freedom isn’t free; it’s preserved by those who gave everything in protection of our American values.
May we continue to be a grateful nation forever.
Apparently the qualifications to work in Trump’s “meritocracy” are to be condescending, uninformed, and completely out of touch?
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Voting History614 total votesExpandCollapse
Voting History
614 total votes
Recent roll calls with party-majority context so it is easier to scan how this member tends to vote.
| Date | Bill | Question | Position | Party Maj | Align? | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-03-10 | H.R. 901 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-03-10 | H.R. 495 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-03-06 | H. Res. 189 (119th) | Approve resolution | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-03-06 | S.J. Res. 11 (119th) | Final passage | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-03-05 | H. Res. 189 (119th) | Kill the motion | YES | YES | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-03-05 | H.J. Res. 42 (119th) | Final passage | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-03-05 | H.J. Res. 61 (119th) | Final passage | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-03-04 | H. Res. 177 (119th) | Approve resolution | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-03-04 | H. Res. 177 (119th) | End debate now | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-03-04 | H.R. 758 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-03-03 | H.R. 856 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-02-27 | H.J. Res. 20 (119th) | Final passage | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-02-26 | H.J. Res. 35 (119th) | Final passage | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-02-26 | H.R. 695 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-02-26 | H. Con. Res. 14 (119th) | Approve resolution | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-02-26 | H.R. 804 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-02-26 | H.R. 788 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-02-25 | H. Res. 161 (119th) | Approve resolution | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-02-25 | H. Res. 161 (119th) | End debate now | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-02-25 | H.R. 818 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-02-25 | H.R. 832 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-02-24 | H.R. 825 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-02-13 | H.R. 35 (119th) | Final passage | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-02-12 | H.R. 77 (119th) | Final passage | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-02-12 | H.R. 77 (119th) | Send back to committee | YES | YES | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-02-11 | H. Res. 122 (119th) | Approve resolution | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-02-11 | H. Res. 122 (119th) | End debate now | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-02-10 | H.R. 736 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-02-10 | H.R. 692 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-02-07 | H.R. 26 (119th) | Final passage | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-02-07 | H.R. 26 (119th) | Send back to committee | YES | YES | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-02-06 | H.R. 27 (119th) | Final passage | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-02-06 | H.R. 27 (119th) | Approve amendment | YES | YES | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-02-05 | H. Res. 93 (119th) | Approve resolution | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-02-05 | H. Res. 93 (119th) | End debate now | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-02-05 | H.R. 776 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-02-04 | H.R. 43 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-01-23 | H.R. 21 (119th) | Final passage | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-01-23 | H.R. 21 (119th) | Send back to committee | YES | YES | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-01-23 | H.R. 471 (119th) | Final passage | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-01-23 | H.R. 375 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-01-22 | S. 5 (119th) | Final passage | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-01-22 | H.R. 165 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-01-22 | H. Res. 53 (119th) | Approve resolution | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-01-22 | H. Res. 53 (119th) | End debate now | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-01-22 | H.R. 187 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-01-21 | H.R. 186 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-01-16 | H.R. 30 (119th) | Final passage | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-01-16 | H.R. 30 (119th) | Send back to committee | YES | YES | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-01-15 | H.R. 33 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
Alignment stats consider only votes where a clear yes/no majority existed for the legislator's party. Cross-party marks divergence where the vote matched the opposite party majority. ↔ indicates cross-party divergence.