{"id":1056227,"date":"2025-09-24T17:29:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T21:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1056227"},"modified":"2025-09-24T17:29:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T21:29:06","slug":"fact-check-winsome-earle-sears-lies-about-trumps-medicaid-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/fact-check-winsome-earle-sears-lies-about-trumps-medicaid-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Fact Check: Winsome Earle-Sears Lies About Trump\u2019s Medicaid Cuts"},"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 class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SpanbergerForVA\/status\/1970620378348429635\"><em>Earle-Sears:<\/em><\/a><em> \u201cNo one is going to lose their Medicaid\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yesterday, Virginia Republican gubernatorial candidate Winsome Earle-Sears was pressed about Trump\u2019s Big Ugly Bill, which will kick <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/uninsured\/how-will-the-2025-reconciliation-law-affect-the-uninsured-rate-in-each-state\/\">350,000<\/a> Virginians off their health insurance and put <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markey.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/letter_on_rural_hospitals.pdf\">six<\/a> rural hospitals in the Commonwealth at risk of closing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earle-Sears couldn\u2019t take the heat and lied, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SpanbergerForVA\/status\/1970620378348429635\">saying<\/a>: \u201cNo one is going to lose their Medicaid.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-e6b90446eb5c3ebc30d3485680eac5b1\"><strong>FACT: Virginians will lose their Medicaid.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/medicaid\/how-will-the-2025-reconciliation-law-affect-the-uninsured-rate-in-each-state\/\">350,000 Virginians<\/a> will lose their health insurance under Trump\u2019s budget bill.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-a3b71ca27a9029a31b7479acf903660b\"><strong>FACT: Rural communities will be hit hardest.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Nearly<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/1-4-rural-areas-rely-medicaid-cuts-democrats\/story?id=123389229\"> 1 in 4<\/a> rural areas rely on Medicaid \u2014 and Virginia is no exception.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markey.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/letter_on_rural_hospitals.pdf\">Four rural Virginia hospitals<\/a> are at risk of closing due to Trump\u2019s budget.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rural communities in Virginia will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/medicaid\/how-might-federal-medicaid-cuts-in-the-enacted-reconciliation-package-affect-rural-areas\/\">lose $5.95 billion<\/a> in Medicaid funds over the next 10 years \u2014 the fourth highest in the country.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-47689b006e0291d19b483643c549cddc\"><strong>FACT: Cuts to Medicaid remain deeply, deeply unpopular.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipsos.com\/en-us\/most-americans-across-party-lines-oppose-medicaid-funding-cuts\">vast majority<\/a> \u2014 71% \u2014 of Americans oppose cuts to Medicaid.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipsos.com\/en-us\/most-americans-across-party-lines-oppose-medicaid-funding-cuts\">Over half<\/a> \u2014 55% \u2014 of Republicans oppose these cuts.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipsos.com\/en-us\/most-americans-across-party-lines-oppose-medicaid-funding-cuts\">73%<\/a> of Independents oppose these cuts as well.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earle-Sears: \u201cNo one is going to lose their Medicaid\u201d Yesterday, Virginia Republican gubernatorial candidate Winsome Earle-Sears was pressed about Trump\u2019s Big Ugly Bill, which will kick 350,000 Virginians off their health insurance and put six rural hospitals in the Commonwealth at risk of closing. Earle-Sears couldn\u2019t take the heat and lied, saying: \u201cNo one is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"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-1056227","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>Fact Check: Winsome Earle-Sears Lies About Trump\u2019s Medicaid Cuts - 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\/fact-check-winsome-earle-sears-lies-about-trumps-medicaid-cuts\/\" \/>\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=\"2025-09-24T21:29:05+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-09-24T21:29:06+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1101\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"483\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jared Carmeli\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jared Carmeli\" \/>\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\/fact-check-winsome-earle-sears-lies-about-trumps-medicaid-cuts\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/fact-check-winsome-earle-sears-lies-about-trumps-medicaid-cuts\/\",\"name\":\"Fact Check: Winsome Earle-Sears Lies About Trump\u2019s Medicaid Cuts - 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