Rep. Courtney: Medicare & Medicaid Cuts in the “Big Beautiful Bill” Willfully & Flagrantly Violate the American People’s Trust

NORWICH, CT ­– Today, Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-02) joined Governor Ned Lamont and Connecticut leaders at Charter Oak Health Center in Hartford to discuss the impacts of health care cuts in President Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” which the President has now signed into law. The bill includes nearly $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act, the largest cut to health care in U.S. history. Additionally, the Congressional Budget Office reports that the bill will trigger $500 billion in cuts to Medicare. As the leaders heard today at Charter Oak, and as Rep. Courtney has heard during visits to hospitals and health centers across Connecticut’s Second District, the health care cuts in the “Big Beautiful Bill” are so severe that hospitals and health centers will be forced to reconsider services for everyone and potentially close. 

“President Trump said that he would ‘love and cherish’ Medicare and Medicaid. In the history of broken promises, I think this one sort of surpassed ‘read my lips: no new taxes’ in terms of how outrageously, unspeakable the promise that I think a lot of people in the country believed, who are on Medicaid and are now about to get a bitter taste in terms of what damage is being done”, Courtney said during the press conference. 

“It is so important that all of the folks that are up here and in the media and across the state understand that you cannot overcommunicate at a time like this in terms of making sure that people understand crystal clear what choice was just made by people who were led by a President who just willfully and flagrantly violated the promise that he made to the American people,” Courtney continued.

Watch Congressman Courtney’s full remarks here.

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