(Note: The content of this page has been edited following the passage of the Republican megabill.)

In response to national outrage over Republicans passing a bill that would cut Medicaid by $1 trillion over 10 years, resulting in 11.8 million Americans losing health insurance (source for these numbers), Republicans in Congress and the Trump administration are trying to just lie about the whole thing by claiming there are actually no Medicaid cuts in the legislation. Here is prominent Trump administration figure Russ Vought before the bill passed:

“This bill will preserve and protect the programs, the social safety net, but it will make it much more common sense,” Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought said Sunday. “That’s what this bill does. No one will lose coverage as a result.”

And here is RFK Jr. after the bill passed:

Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday refuted the existence of Medicaid cuts due to President Trump’s megabill of tax and spending cuts.

“First of all, there’s no cuts on Medicaid."

These are just flat out lies. The Trump administration even knows they are lies, and when pushed they explain that what they actually mean is something more like "almost all the Americans who lose coverage as a result of the bill are illegal immigrants and able-bodied adults, and such they did not deserve that coverage in the first place." However, since even that sounds really bad–and, in fact, isn't actually true, as roughly half of the cuts would impact people outside those two groups–they aren't even being honest about that. Instead, they just plowing forward with a straightforward untruth by claiming that no one will lose coverage at all.

The only way that Republicans can lie their way out of these cuts is if no one calls them out on their lying. That is why I am asking you to sign this petition denouncing the blatant Republican lie that "no one" will lose coverage because of their Medicaid cuts, and to share information about it--specifically this study from KFF–with your social networks.

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