As JD Vance heads to Georgia today in a last-ditch effort to flip the script on Trump’s Big Budget Betrayal after massive backlash from working Georgia families, DNC Chair Ken Martin released the following statement: 

“Donald Trump is sending his most loyal puppet down to Georgia in a desperate attempt to salvage the wreckage from Republicans’ disastrous, deeply unpopular budget scam. Let’s be clear: Republicans did not hesitate to gut Medicaid, defund hospitals, and rip away food assistance from over a million Georgians to enrich their billionaire donors. Look what it got them: plummeting approval ratings and intense backlash from betrayed Georgians ready to channel their wrath at the ballot box. Now, Vance and Republicans are working overtime to flip the script on their devastating billionaires-first agenda, even trying to rebrand their effort. Georgians know, just like their broken promises before, it’s all a load of crap.” 

Today, JD Vance goes down to Georgia to boost support for Donald Trump’s billionaires-first budget agenda that takes a wrecking ball to Georgia families’ livelihoods. 

• Republicans cut over $1 trillion from Medicaid — the largest cut to Medicaid in American history  
• The GOP budget rips away health care from nearly 652,540 Georgians 
• Twelve rural hospitals in Georgia are at risk of closing — ripping away access to critical emergency medical care. 
• One rural Georgia hospital announced just this week that they may have to cut their ICU as a result of Trump’s Big Budget Betrayal
• 37 Georgia nursing homes are at risk of having to close their doors after federal funding cuts sparked by Trump’s budget.  
• Over 700,000 Georgian families are at risk of losing food assistance, forcing working families and children to go hungry 
• Increases energy costs by hundreds of dollars across the country 

… and drags Georgia’s economy into the gutter. 

• Costs Georgia’s economy over $2.6 million in GDP 
• Kills over 23,000 good-paying jobs for Georgians.
• Plummets Georgia’s tax revenue by $203 million 
• Unions are warning this is the “biggest job-killing bill in the history of the country” 
• Trump’s budget bill will threaten 1.75 million construction jobs and 2 million clean energy jobs nationwide