The moment Donald Trump was sworn into his second term, Congressional Republicans began attacking the critical health care services that millions of hard working Americans rely on. By passing Donald Trump’s Big Ugly Budget Bill, Congressional Republicans gutted Medicaid, making the largest cuts to the program in American history. They forced health clinics and rural hospitals across the country to close their doors, leaving many low income and rural communities with no other option than to drive hours to seek care, or seek no care at all. Donald Trump’s Republican allies also cut billions of dollars in funding from the National Institutes of Health, cutting off research funding to life saving therapies to cure cancer and other chronic diseases. This dramatic reversal has severely disrupted domestic biomedical research and innovation, handing our foreign adversaries a massive advantage in the global race to develop life saving medicine. RFK Jr. has peddled dangerous conspiracy theories about over the counter medication and blocked access to COVID-19 vaccinations. This relentless attack on the American health care system has caused damage that will take decades to recover from. But House Democrats have been just as relentless in their opposition to these draconian attacks on health care. In 2025, House Republicans announced they would jam the proposal for Trump’s Big Ugly Budget Bill through the House of Representatives, setting the stage to cut nearly $1 trillion dollars from Medicaid, all so Trump could give tax breaks to his billionaire friends. At the time of this announcement, Kevin was in the hospital in California recovering from complications from recent knee surgeries. But he knew House Democrats would need to stand united against this disastrous budget proposal. He left the hospital and rushed straight to the airport so he could fly to DC - with a midline IV still attached to his arm - so he could vote NO on Donald Trump’s extreme agenda.