{"id":1053887,"date":"2025-06-30T19:39:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T23:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1053887"},"modified":"2025-07-01T10:40:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T14:40:20","slug":"icymi-washingtonian-for-dnc-chair-ken-martin-the-big-beautiful-bill-is-personal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-washingtonian-for-dnc-chair-ken-martin-the-big-beautiful-bill-is-personal\/","title":{"rendered":"ICYMI: Washingtonian: For DNC Chair Ken Martin, the Big Beautiful Bill Is Personal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Key Point:<\/strong> \u201c[DNC Chair Ken] Martin told Washingtonian on Friday \u2026 \u2018We were in and out of homeless shelters. When we went grocery shopping, we had to use food stamps. If it wasn\u2019t for Medicaid, I wouldn\u2019t have had any healthcare. Those are the types of programs that me and my family relied on throughout most of my childhood.\u2019 Martin hasn\u2019t talked much about that chapter of his life, but he wants to now, because the Republican spending bill feels so personal to him.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonian.com\/2025\/06\/28\/for-dnc-chair-ken-martin-the-big-beautiful-bill-is-personal\/\"><strong>Washingtonian<\/strong><\/a><strong>: For DNC Chair Ken Martin, the Big Beautiful Bill Is Personal<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By Sylvie McNamara&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>\u201cWe struggled mightily when we were young,\u201d Martin told Washingtonian on Friday. \u201cWe were in and out of homeless shelters. When we went grocery shopping, we had to use food stamps. If it wasn\u2019t for Medicaid, I wouldn\u2019t have had any healthcare. Those are the types of programs that me and my family relied on throughout most of my childhood.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Martin hasn\u2019t talked much about that chapter of his life, but he wants to now, because the Republican spending bill feels so personal to him.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>According to the Tax Policy Center, <strong>the top one percent of Americans would see an average tax cut of almost $80,000. Meanwhile, the bottom 30 percent of Americans would see their incomes reduced<\/strong>, primarily due to benefit cuts. \u2026 <strong>Additionally, the CBO expects 16 million Americans to lose their health care under the bill,<\/strong> due to changes in both Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act \u2026 [and] public-health researchers have warned that <strong>the bill could cause 51,000 preventable deaths each year.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A recent KFF Health Tracking poll, for instance, suggests that nearly <strong>two-thirds of Americans view the legislation unfavorably, while only 35 percent support it.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>So, in these final days before the president\u2019s deadline, the <strong>DNC\u2019s strategy is to build public opposition.<\/strong> In particular, elected <strong>Democrats have been flooding local media with accounts of how the bill could devastate their communities<\/strong> \u2026\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Martin has no idea what his own mother would have done without Medicaid or food assistance<\/strong>. \u201cI mean, she struggled as it is. We were so poor, we didn\u2019t have much. <strong>Without the programs that were helping her, it\u2019s hard to imagine\u2014clearly, it would have been much more difficult.\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key Point: \u201c[DNC Chair Ken] Martin told Washingtonian on Friday \u2026 \u2018We were in and out of homeless shelters. When we went grocery shopping, we had to use food stamps. If it wasn\u2019t for Medicaid, I wouldn\u2019t have had any healthcare. Those are the types of programs that me and my family relied on throughout [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1053887","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>ICYMI: Washingtonian: For DNC Chair Ken Martin, the Big Beautiful Bill Is Personal - 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\/icymi-washingtonian-for-dnc-chair-ken-martin-the-big-beautiful-bill-is-personal\/\" \/>\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=\"2025-06-30T23:39:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-07-01T14:40:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Adrianna Tomasello\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Adrianna Tomasello\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-washingtonian-for-dnc-chair-ken-martin-the-big-beautiful-bill-is-personal\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-washingtonian-for-dnc-chair-ken-martin-the-big-beautiful-bill-is-personal\/\",\"name\":\"ICYMI: Washingtonian: For DNC Chair Ken Martin, the Big Beautiful Bill Is Personal - 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