CONGRESSIONAL REPUBLICANS SLASH HEALTH CARE FROM MILLIONS TO FUND BILLIONAIRE TAX CUTS AND EXPAND FOR-PROFIT IMMIGRATION DETENTION CENTERS

The Latino community will bear the brunt of Trump’s budget, which cuts Medicaid and takes away health care coverage, drives up the cost of living, and expands deportation efforts.

Washington, D.C. —  Following the passage of the Republican mega-spending bill in the House of Representatives, Voto Latino President and Co-Founder Maria Teresa Kumar issued the following statement: 

“A budget represents a nation’s priorities and elected officials’ contract with their citizens. This bill is a disgraceful reflection of where Congressional Republican priorities stand. While hardworking families across the country face economic uncertainty given how expensive everything has become under the Trump administration, Republicans are stripping health care from millions through Medicaid cuts and slashing essential services to fund tax breaks for billionaires and hand over $45 billion to build for-profit detention centers. Once again, Republicans have made it loud and clear: their agenda is out of step with the needs of working-class Americans. They ought to be ashamed for having acted recklessly in fast-tracking this harmful bill to meet their self-imposed deadline.” 

“Make no mistake: we will hold lawmakers accountable where it matters most: at the ballot box. And we will continue to inform voters, especially every Latino voter, of what they just did. Actions have consequences.”

This Republican spending bill will add about $3.3 trillion to the national debt—opening the door to further cuts in the social safety net that millions of families rely on. Rather than investing in communities, it paves the way for future measures that disproportionately harm working-class Americans, especially Latinos.

Cuts to Medicaid will deeply impact Latinos across the country. Latinos make up nearly 29.9% of all Medicaid and CHIP enrollees, despite comprising only 19.5% of the U.S. population. That means roughly 26.8 million Latinos rely on these programs for critical health care services.

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Voto Latino is a civic advocacy organization dedicated to educating and empowering the next generation of Latino voters while working to build a more inclusive and representative democracy. Since its founding, Voto Latino has registered nearly two million voters. In 2024, the organization took legal action to protect voting rights, filing multiple lawsuits in Texas, Arizona, and North Carolina to safeguard access to the ballot ahead of the elections.