Healthcare Cuts Hurt Working-Class Americans

Trumps Presidency in 2017:

  • “the National Institutes of Health (NIH) would see its annual budget shrink 18% from $31.8 billion to $26 billion.”

  • “National Cancer Institute ($1 billion), National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute ($575 million)”

  • “National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases ($838 million).”

  • “The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) would lose 17% of its budget, a cut of $1.2 billion.”

  • “There has been particular scorn heaped on the budget’s plan to cut $610 billion over 10 years from the Medicaid program, which provides health insurance to 74 million low-income Americans.”

Trumps Presidency in 2025:

  • "Trump's 'One Big Beautiful Bill', there will be around $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid”

  • “Medicaid enrollment expanded from around 64.5 million in February 2020 to 87 million in March 2023, as a result.”

  • “January 2025, when Trump began his second term in office, 72,011,017 Americans were enrolled in the Medicaid program, but by July 2025, that number was 70,356,307.”

Bar chart showing the projected reduction in Medicaid spending over ten years, from 2017 to 2026, with cumulative cuts totaling up to $1.3 trillion, indicating increasing budget cuts each year.
Title page of a report or document titled 'National Enrollment in Medicaid, February 2020 to July 2025' in bold text.
Line graph showing the number of Americans enrolled in Medicaid from January 2020 to January 2026, with a peak in May 2023 at approximately 87 million, and a subsequent decline. The graph notes the start of Medicaid unwinding in early 2023. The source of data is KFF. The graph is published by Newsweek.