Medicaid Cups in the `Big Beautiful Bill ” of Trump could harm the Republicans in Pennsylvania in 2026

The so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill” by President Donald Trump could be great pain for the Pennsylvania Republicans who voted for this, Hoping to keep their seats next year.

The bill, which is unpopular among the voters who heard about it, according to the survey, adopted Chamber 218-214 on Thursday and are now going to the office of Trump, where it should sign the package of radical national expenditure during a celebration event on July 4.

All members of the Pennsylvania Republican Chamber voted for the bill. The American representative Brian Fitzpatrick, a moderate who represents the county of Purple Bucks, voted against the bill and underlined the return of flame possible to come to his colleagues in his reason: Medicaid.

“Find out more: The representative of Pennsylvania, Brian Fitzpatrick, is the Lone PA. Gop votes against the “big and beautiful bill”

Fitzpatrick said in a statement “It was the Senate amendments to Medicaid, in addition to several other provisions of the Senate”, which have changed the support of the version of the legislation before.

For months, the Democrats of Pennsylvania, who have all voted against the bill, underlined the reductions of the bill in Medicaid and Snap, and to the elimination of energy tax credits in a state with thousands of energy jobs, as potentially devastating for the Pennsylvanian. Even certain Republican members of the Congress seemed to be alarms that the draft law on the legislative and politically could be bad for the party.

“It is essential that this bill betrays the promise that Donald Trump made,” said Republican Senator Thom Tillis in the Senate, specifically citing the discounts of Medicaid. “I tell the president that you were poorly informed. You support the Senate brand will injure eligible and qualified people for Medicaid. ”

Tillis, who attracted Trump’s anger for his opposition, announced shortly after that he would not present himself to re -election.

A recent Quinnipiac survey has shown that 53% of voters oppose the legislation, against 27% who support it. Of the voters out of five interviewed, on the other hand, had not heard of the Megabill. And only 10% of the voters interviewed think that MEDICAID finance should decrease.

Among republican voters, only 18% said they thought Federal Medicaid funding should decrease.

Now the Democrats see an opportunity in the four districts where the Republicans won by the lowest margins of the State last year. They indicate that the 12 million individuals projected by non -partisan analysts of the Congressional Budget Office to lose health care and describe the bill as cruel and potentially fatal. They are considering first -year -old American representatives. Rob Bresnahan, in the Northeast and Ryan Mackenzie in the Lehigh and Scott Perry outgoing valley in York. Democratic agents did not leave the Fitzpatrick hook, noting his support prior to the bill in the House.

“Find out more: Democrats already predict 2026 and think that they can return these four seats to the congress

The American representative Suzan Delbene, president of the democratic campaign committee, said that the vote would be at the heart of the struggle to take over the chamber.

“This great ugly bill is a laundry list of the betrayal of the Republicans to the American people,” said Delbene in a statement. “The DCC will ensure that each voter of battlefield knows how the republicans of the vulnerable chamber – including Mackenzie, Bresnahan and Perry – abandoned them by adopting the most unpopular legislation of modern American history.”

Republicans believe that they can sell the bill on its expansion of tax reductions and defense and amplified border expenses. They argue that Medicaid changes eliminate fraud and that work requirements are generally popular.

Most of the changes to the program that only took effect until 2027 or 2028, it is not difficult to know if the average voters will feel the impact before the mid-term elections.

But even GOP analysts note that the Republicans have an upward battle for the sale of the bill to voters.

“Everyone wants to eliminate waste, fraud and abuse … and everyone wants a kind of work.

“But unfortunately for the Republicans,” do not cut Medicaid “which also tests well.”

A democratic offensive

Shortly before the final adoption of the bill, Governor Josh Shapiro called each republican member of the Chamber on social networks, as well as the projections of the State of the number of people in their district would lose the advantages of Medicaid or SNAP under the bill.

“To our members of the Congress planning to vote for this bill: if you do, you do it knowing the consequences it will have through the Pennsylvania and in your districts,” said Shapiro, a democrat.

The “Big Beautiful Bill” could also play in the race for the governor, in which at least one member of the GOP house, the American representative Dan Meuser, expressed his interest. With Shapiro to be re-elected in 2026, he will probably become a key spokesperson for the Democrats who are unleashed against the members of the Chamber who voted for the bill.

Shapiro said that of the 3 million Pennsylvanians registered in the SNAP, 140,000 could lose services. Shapiro went so far as to wonder on Monday, Shapiro could continue to exist in the state in the midst of changes.

His office also estimated that 310,000 of the 3 million Pennsylvanians who receive Medicaid would lose the performance if the cuts take place.

Other Democrats have moved to swing districts across the country. Senator Chris Coons left his original state, the Delaware this week to meet against Medicaid Cuts in the county of Luzerne, the district of Bresnahan, before rallying to Harrisburg, near the district of Perry.

Seven groups, notably Protect Our Care, House Majority Fund and AARP, already have television advertisements in swing districts, including in Pennsylvania, exploding Republicans who support the bill.

Trump won the Pennsylvania by continuing to increase his support for the Americans in the working class who thought that the prices were too high and that the economy did not work for them. From now on, the Democrats will indicate the votes for the bill as an attack against the voters of the working class, in particular those which are covered by the expansion of Medicaid – a population of largely worked and valid adults whose income is low enough to obtain coverage.

The population is expected to bear the weight of Medicaid cups, which the Democrats in the Philadelphia region have warned for months could have an oversized impact on a city at a high rate of poverty, where hundreds of thousands of residents also count on SNAP.

Some Republican voters have already expressed their frustration with regard to the bill. During a recent telephone town hall with McCormick, a woman who described herself as a curator said that she was “not satisfied with the great and beautiful bill”, specifically emphasizing what a loss of energy tax credits could mean for the solar industry.

“It will leave us without subsidies that will almost kill the industry,” she said.

Another self-written “republican for life” told McCormick that he opposed Medicaid Cuts as a therapist of mental health. “These cuts seem to cross the entire program, which will affect the people I work with,” he said.

The sender came out in the northeast district of the Pennsylvania of Bresnahan shortly after his first vote. The 8th district of the Bresnahan Congress has the most recipient of Medicaid of any district led by the Republicans and the third most as a whole. The first year legislator defended the widespread cuts.

“I really receive my own mail suggesting that I cut or cut these rights,” said Bresnahan in a spring town hall. “I want you to know that I will fight to protect the families of the working class in the northeast of Pennsylvania, and I will also remain with President Trump to oppose the reduction of Medicaid.”

Bresnahan, like many Republicans defending Medicaid changes, said that he was supporting “the abolition of illegal roles” and the installation of work requirements for valid adults.

But Pennsylvania is not one of the 14 states that extend health insurance benefits to undocumented immigrants.

And on the work requirements, the majority – about eight out of 10 – adults on Medicaid who would be subject to the rule already work or qualify for an exemption under the law, according to the national statistics of KFF, an organization of non -profit health policy. This leaves a small population of people who do not work.

One out of four Pennsylvanian who is subject to the work requirement could wrongly lose coverage, according to Le Pennsylvania Health Access Network, due to potentially bulky declaration requirements.

“There are more taxpayers … than people on Medicaid”

Mackenzie, the Republican legislator of the Lehigh Valley, said in an interview before voting for the bill on Thursday that he had supported legislation because “he provides historic tax relief, secures the border, invests in our future and makes important positive government reforms”.

He called Medicaid a “very important program” and the work requirements a “reasonable update”.

When asked if he was convinced that the 11 million people who should lose their health insurance did not need it, Mackenzie did not respond directly. He praised a fund of $ 50 billion to help rural hospitals to compensate for Lost Medicaid payments, some of which, according to him, would “definitively” in Pennsylvania.

Although the bill is unpopular among the voters who heard about it, a recent survey of USA priorities found that almost half of the Americans, 48%, had not done so.

The Republicans provide an offensive in the coming days To define the 900 -page invoice under their conditions, focusing on other aspects, such as sending a record amount of border security and extending the 2017 tax reductions.

But they are also ready to defend themselves against Medicaid, said Mike Marinella, national press secretary of the National Committee of the Republican Congress.

“Democrats consider Medicaid as their problem of a miracle solution, but we feel quite comfortable entering this arena,” he said, noting that some of the key changes for the elimination of fraud and the institution of work requirements are popular with voters.

In the end, the Republicans are betting that taxpayers will focus on tax reductions, said Nicholas, said Pennsylvania GOP analyst.

“Let’s face it,” he said. “There are more taxpayers in the country than the people of Medicaid.”