{"id":1055678,"date":"2025-08-21T13:37:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T17:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1055678"},"modified":"2025-08-21T13:37:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T17:37:07","slug":"jd-vance-goes-down-to-georgia-for-damage-control-after-republicans-big-budget-betrayal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/jd-vance-goes-down-to-georgia-for-damage-control-after-republicans-big-budget-betrayal\/","title":{"rendered":"JD Vance Goes Down to Georgia for Damage Control After Republicans\u2019 Big Budget Betrayal\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"449\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1050776\" srcset=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png 1101w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=300,132 300w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=768,337 768w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=1024,449 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>As JD Vance heads to Georgia today in a last-ditch effort to flip the script on Trump\u2019s Big Budget Betrayal after massive backlash from working Georgia families, <\/em><strong><em>DNC Chair Ken Martin released the following statement:&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDonald Trump is sending his most loyal puppet down to Georgia in a desperate attempt to salvage the wreckage from Republicans\u2019 disastrous, deeply unpopular budget scam. Let\u2019s 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\u2019s all a load of crap.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Today, JD Vance goes down to Georgia to boost support for Donald Trump\u2019s billionaires-first budget agenda that takes a wrecking ball to Georgia families\u2019 livelihoods.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Republicans cut over <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jessefferguson\/status\/1939034218090147859?s=46&amp;t=_uKwMhsgt6Ebkxgn31md2g\">$1 trillion<\/a> from Medicaid \u2014 <strong>the largest cut to Medicaid in American history\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The GOP budget rips away health care from nearly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jec.senate.gov\/public\/index.cfm\/democrats\/press-releases?ID=E59E9267-899E-40EC-BEBF-BC9778CBF165\">652,540<\/a> Georgians\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjbf.com\/news\/georgia-news\/report-finds-rural-hospitals-in-georgia-are-at-risk-of-closing\/\">Twelve<\/a> rural hospitals in Georgia are at risk of closing \u2014 ripping away access to critical emergency medical care.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>One rural Georgia hospital <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtoc.com\/2025\/08\/18\/local-rural-hospital-losing-millions-dollars-following-cuts-one-big-beautiful-bill-act\/\">announced<\/a> <strong>just this week<\/strong> that they may have to cut their ICU as a result of Trump\u2019s Big Budget Betrayal<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.11alive.com\/article\/news\/state\/georgia-nursing-facilities-at-risk-after-federal-funding-cuts-list\/85-be6d71cf-8809-4cd1-b4f6-803cfdd4eb67\">37<\/a> Georgia nursing homes are at risk of having to close their doors after federal funding cuts sparked by Trump\u2019s budget.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban.org\/sites\/default\/files\/2025-07\/How-the-Senate-Budget-Reconciliation-SNAP-Proposals-Will-Affect-Families-in-Every-US-State.pdf\">Over 700,000<\/a> Georgian families are at risk of losing food assistance, forcing working families and children to go hungry\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Increases energy costs by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/06\/27\/climate\/trump-tax-bill-energy-costs-dg\">hundreds<\/a> of dollars across the country\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u2026 and drags Georgia\u2019s economy into the gutter.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Costs Georgia\u2019s economy over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commonwealthfund.org\/publications\/issue-briefs\/2025\/jun\/how-medicaid-snap-cutbacks-one-big-beautiful-bill-trigger-job-losses-states#appendtab3\">$2.6 million<\/a> in GDP\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Kills over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commonwealthfund.org\/publications\/issue-briefs\/2025\/jun\/how-medicaid-snap-cutbacks-one-big-beautiful-bill-trigger-job-losses-states#appendtab3\">23,000<\/a> good-paying jobs for Georgians.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Plummets Georgia\u2019s tax revenue by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commonwealthfund.org\/publications\/issue-briefs\/2025\/jun\/how-medicaid-snap-cutbacks-one-big-beautiful-bill-trigger-job-losses-states#appendtab3\">$203 million<\/a>\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Unions are warning this is the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NABTU\/status\/1939138550169035002\">\u201cbiggest job-killing bill in the history of the country\u201d\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Trump\u2019s budget bill will threaten <a href=\"https:\/\/nabtu.org\/press_releases\/nabtu-statement-on-the-u-s-senate-republican-proposed-one-big-beautiful-bill\/\">1.75 million<\/a> construction jobs and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bluegreenalliance.org\/resources\/senate-budget-proposal-drastically-rolls-back-manufacturing-tax-credits-slashes-funding-for-clean-energy-and-jobs\/\">2 million<\/a> clean energy jobs nationwide<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As JD Vance heads to Georgia today in a last-ditch effort to flip the script on Trump\u2019s Big Budget Betrayal after massive backlash from working Georgia families, DNC Chair Ken Martin released the following statement:&nbsp; \u201cDonald Trump is sending his most loyal puppet down to Georgia in a desperate attempt to salvage the wreckage from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":293,"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-1055678","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 - 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