[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 80 (Tuesday, May 13, 2025)]
[House]
[Page H1988]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




               PROTECTING MEDICAID BENEFITS IN CALIFORNIA

  (Mr. KILEY of California asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KILEY of California. Mr. Speaker, the moment of reckoning for 
California Governor Gavin Newsom has arrived. While I have been 
fighting to protect Medicaid benefits for Californians, the Governor's 
irresponsible actions are now threatening deep cuts for Medicaid in 
California.
  Mr. Speaker, Newsom has made California the only State that offers 
Medicaid to everyone in the State illegally. It has already cost us 
$9.5 billion just this year in State funds, and now it also threatens 
to cost us even more in Federal funds.
  Governor Newsom faces a very clear choice: He can continue a policy 
that no other State has and cost us hundreds of billions of dollars in 
Medicaid benefits that could have gone to legal California residents 
over the next decade, or he can act now to reverse this irresponsible 
policy.
  Mr. Speaker, I am strongly urging the Governor and the legislature to 
do the latter immediately.

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