CLAIM #3. "We're kicking undocumented immigrants off Medicaid."
FACT: undocumented immigrants are not eligible for the federal Medicaid program. And Republicans know this.
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Congress Member Profile|U.S. Representative|Democrat|Texas District 16
Veronica Escobar
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Voting Record — 536
Yes40%
No58%
Present0%
Not Voting2%
Party align98%
Cross-party0%
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Veronica Escobar
U.S. RepresentativeDemocratTexas District 16
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Arkansas, for example, implemented paperwork requirements and 25% lost their health care access – not because they weren’t working, but because the bureaucracy they had to manage was so difficult.
www.cbpp.org/research/hea...
For example, Americans on Medicaid could be required to re-enroll every month.
There’s all sorts of hoops recipients may be required to jump through to keep their health care coverage.
FACT: the goal is to make people lose their coverage.
Instituting work requirements literally means instituting PAPERWORK requirements.
Claim #2. "We're giving people the option to work or volunteer to be on Medicaid."
FACT: 92% of adults under age 65 on Medicaid are already working or unable to work due to caregiving responsibilities, illness or disability, or school attendance
www.kff.org/medicaid/iss...
If the Senate removes the flexibility that provider taxes provide, states would be forced to cut benefits and tighten eligibility requirements.
That means people will lose health care access and become uninsured.
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Some states use it for Medicaid expansion while others use it to help keep provider reimbursement rates high enough to ensure more people have access.
FACT: this money helps grow health care access.
Claim #1. "States will no longer take advantage of federal taxpayers."
He’s talking about provider taxes. States tax health care providers (hospitals, nursing homes, managed care organizations, etc.). The federal government matches 50-80% of it.
And what do states use this money for?
Fact check time! Republicans are quite the creative bunch, working overtime to fool Americans into thinking their drastic, harmful cuts to healthcare aren’t as bad as everyone knows they are.
Let’s look at Senator Budd’s thread and inject some truth, shall we?
Republicans want to spend tens of billions of taxpayer dollars for Trump’s horrific mass deportation strategy that'll enrich companies running private immigration detention facilities.
Read my op-ed for El Paso Matters 👇🏽
elpasomatters.org/2025/06/30/o...
“The moral test of a nation is how it treats those most in need of support.
“In our view, this [Republican budget] will harm the poor and vulnerable in our nation, to the detriment of the common good.
“Its passage would be a moral failure for American society as a whole.”
Miller’s conflict of interest should prevent him from participating in any policy discussions around immigration, detention or deportation.
And Congress needs to ban stock buying for members of Congress as well as for all federal employees in the executive branch.
We already knew the Trump administration is the most corrupt administration in American history.
But they have truly cornered the market on monetizing hate at the same time.
POGO notes that Palantir is the highest performing company in the S&P 500 this year.
Its stock price is up by over 80% in 2025.
Palantir also revealed its U.S. government revenue was 45% higher in the first quarter of this year compared to the same quarter last year.
Increased operations means more business for companies like Palantir.
More business -> more revenue -> higher stock shares for people like Miller, who already owns somewhere between $100k-$250k in shares.
You guys aren’t doing a good job. You’re horrible leaders,” one official recalled Miller saying.
“What do you mean you’re going after criminals? Why aren’t you at Home Depot? Why aren’t you at 7-Eleven?”
www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...
But the status quo is likely not profitable enough for the private prison industry – or those who own stock in it.
Recently when ICE wasn't deporting "enough people," he and DHS Secretary Noem convened a meeting of ICE officials to ramp up operations.
www.axios.com/2025/05/28/i...
Establishing the "single largest mass deportation program in American history" with a focus on “the worst of the worst” was a key Trump promise.
America already has the largest immigration detention system in the world. Surely, it's enough to detain these criminals.
Over a dozen White House or DHS staffers, including Stephen Miller, are profiting off public policy they created.
They have shares in Palantir, a company that works with ICE and received a no-bid contract to implement Trump's mass deportations.
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www.pogo.org/investigatio...
The Trump Administration knows it could not win an argument for destroying birthright citizenship, so it has changed the game - instead forcing individuals to file lawsuits to sue for their rights.
As Justice Sotomayor wrote: “No right is safe in the new legal regime the Court creates.”
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Voting History
536 total votes
Recent roll calls with party-majority context so it is easier to scan how this member tends to vote.
| Date | Bill | Question | Position | Party Maj | Align? | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-15 | H.R. 8469 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-05-15 | H.R. 8469 (119th) | Approve amendment | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2026-05-14 | H.R. 8365 (119th) | Final passage | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-05-14 | H.R. 8365 (119th) | Send back to committee | YES | YES | ✓ | Failed |
| 2026-05-14 | H.R. 5625 (119th) | Final passage | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-05-14 | H. Con. Res. 75 (119th) | Approve resolution | YES | YES | ✓ | Failed |
| 2026-05-14 | H.R. 6260 (119th) | Final passage | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-05-14 | H.R. 6260 (119th) | Send back to committee | YES | YES | ✓ | Failed |
| 2026-05-13 | H. Res. 1259 (119th) | Motion to Suspend the Rules and Agree | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-05-13 | H. Res. 1251 (119th) | Motion to Suspend the Rules and Agree | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-05-13 | H. Con. Res. 96 (119th) | Approve resolution | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-05-13 | H.R. 1346 (119th) | Final passage | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-05-13 | H.R. 1346 (119th) | Send back to committee | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2026-05-13 | H. Res. 1252 (119th) | Motion to Suspend the Rules and Agree | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-05-13 | H. Res. 1274 (119th) | Approve resolution | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-05-13 | H. Res. 1274 (119th) | End debate now | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-05-13 | H. Res. 1275 (119th) | Approve resolution | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-05-13 | H. Res. 1275 (119th) | End debate now | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-05-12 | H.R. 2853 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-05-12 | H.R. 2071 (119th) | Fast-track passage | NO | YES | ✕ | Passed |
| 2026-04-30 | S. 4465 (119th) | Fast-track passage | NOT_VOTING | YES | — | Passed |
| 2026-04-30 | H.R. 7567 (119th) | Final passage | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-04-30 | H.R. 7567 (119th) | Send back to committee | YES | YES | ✓ | Failed |
| 2026-04-30 | H.R. 7567 (119th) | Approve amendment | NO | NO | ✓ | Agreed to |
| 2026-04-30 | H.R. 7567 (119th) | Approve amendment | YES | NO | ✕↔ | Failed |
| 2026-04-30 | H.R. 7567 (119th) | Approve amendment | YES | YES | ✓ | Agreed to |
| 2026-04-30 | H.R. 7567 (119th) | Approve amendment | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2026-04-30 | H.R. 7567 (119th) | Approve amendment | YES | YES | ✓ | Agreed to |
| 2026-04-30 | H.R. 7567 (119th) | Approve amendment | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2026-04-30 | H.R. 7567 (119th) | Approve amendment | YES | YES | ✓ | Agreed to |
| 2026-04-30 | H.R. 7567 (119th) | Approve amendment | NOT_VOTING | YES | — | Agreed to |
| 2026-04-30 | H.R. 7567 (119th) | Approve amendment | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2026-04-30 | S. Con. Res. 33 (119th) | Approve resolution | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-04-29 | S. 1318 (119th) | Final passage | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-04-29 | H. Res. 1224 (119th) | Approve resolution | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-04-29 | H. Res. 1224 (119th) | End debate now | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-04-27 | H.R. 227 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-04-27 | H.R. 7959 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-04-23 | H.R. 5587 (119th) | Final passage | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-04-22 | H.R. 6387 (119th) | Final passage | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-04-22 | H.R. 6387 (119th) | Send back to committee | YES | YES | ✓ | Failed |
| 2026-04-22 | H.R. 4690 (119th) | Final passage | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-04-22 | H.R. 4690 (119th) | Send back to committee | YES | YES | ✓ | Failed |
| 2026-04-22 | H. Res. 1182 (119th) | Approve resolution | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-04-22 | H. Res. 1189 (119th) | Approve resolution | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-04-22 | H. Res. 1189 (119th) | End debate now | NOT_VOTING | NO | — | Passed |
| 2026-04-21 | S. 1020 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-04-21 | H.R. 2493 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-04-21 | H.R. 5201 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-04-20 | H.R. 5200 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
Alignment stats consider only votes where a clear yes/no majority existed for the legislator's party. Cross-party marks divergence where the vote matched the opposite party majority. ↔ indicates cross-party divergence.
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