{"id":1053755,"date":"2025-06-26T12:31:21","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T16:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1053755"},"modified":"2025-06-26T12:31:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T16:31:22","slug":"dnc-chair-ken-martins-statement-on-supreme-courts-attacks-on-medicaid-recipients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-chair-ken-martins-statement-on-supreme-courts-attacks-on-medicaid-recipients\/","title":{"rendered":"DNC Chair Ken Martin\u2019s Statement on Supreme Court\u2019s Attacks on Medicaid Recipients"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>In response to the Supreme Court\u2019s majority ruling in Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, <\/em><strong><em>DNC Chair Ken Martin issued the following statement:<\/em><\/strong><strong><br><\/strong><strong><br><\/strong>\u201cAs Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress work overtime to rip away Medicaid from millions of Americans, Trump\u2019s handpicked Supreme Court justices delivered another blow to the program that more than 70 million Americans rely on for health care. Today\u2019s Supreme Court decision has devastating repercussions for women\u2019s access to reproductive care, while opening the door to attacks on all health care covered under Medicaid. With this decision, Republican extremists have the green light to discriminate against health care providers and target funding for clinics that provide health care from cancer screenings to abortions. This is the world Trump and Republicans created: maternal mortality rates spiking and millions on the verge of losing basic health care coverage. Democrats will stand with women and all Americans as we defend their access to basic dignity and accessible health care.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to the Supreme Court\u2019s majority ruling in Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, DNC Chair Ken Martin issued the following statement:\u201cAs Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress work overtime to rip away Medicaid from millions of Americans, Trump\u2019s handpicked Supreme Court justices delivered another blow to the program that more than 70 million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":293,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1053755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>DNC Chair Ken Martin\u2019s Statement on Supreme Court\u2019s Attacks on Medicaid Recipients - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-chair-ken-martins-statement-on-supreme-courts-attacks-on-medicaid-recipients\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-06-26T16:31:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-06-26T16:31:22+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Shelby Reese\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Shelby Reese\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-chair-ken-martins-statement-on-supreme-courts-attacks-on-medicaid-recipients\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-chair-ken-martins-statement-on-supreme-courts-attacks-on-medicaid-recipients\/\",\"name\":\"DNC Chair Ken Martin\u2019s Statement on Supreme Court\u2019s Attacks on Medicaid Recipients - 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