Washington D.C — Today, Congressman Juan Ciscomani (AZ-06) voted to raise his constituents’ health care costs yet again. Nearly 400,000 Arizonans relied on vital health care tax credits that made basic health insurance affordable, but late last year, Republicans in Congress, including Congressman Ciscomani, allowed them to expire. With his vote today, he doubled down on that effort. He voted to double many Arizonans’ health care premiums at a time when tariffs are crushing families, grocery bills are through the roof, and cuts to Medicaid are threatening to leave millions uninsured.
Congressman Ciscomani’s vote today is a betrayal of his constituents. The cost of everything from groceries to electricity to health care is already too high, and now he is kicking his own constituents while they are down. Rather than voting to make life unaffordable and giving billionaires massive tax breaks, Congressman Ciscomani and his Republican colleagues should be making people’s health care more affordable and standing up for working-class Americans – not the ultra-wealthy.
“By voting no on this bill, Congressman Ciscomani told hundreds of thousands of Arizonans that they should have to choose between paying impossibly high health care costs or losing their coverage altogether,” said Unrig Our Economy Campaign Director Leor Tal. “From his no vote today to voting for the largest cuts to Medicaid in history, Congressman Ciscomani is making life even less affordable for Arizonans at a time when the cost of living is soaring. We need Congressman Ciscomani and his colleagues to stop voting to cut Americans’ health care.”
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Unrig Our Economy is a national campaign to fix the rules of our economy to make it work for working people. We know that when the middle class does well, all of us do well — which is why we’re fighting on behalf of working Americans and holding corporations, their wealthy executives, and the politicians who enable them accountable.