2025
2025-07-03 00:00:00+00
BROKE
Broke: Dan Newhouse: vowed he'd never cut Medicaid, then voted for the cuts
On July 3, 2025, Newhouse voted Yea on H.R. 1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (Roll Call 190, passed 218-214), which the Congressional Budget Office projected would cut roughly $1 trillion from Medicaid over a decade. Health analysts flagged 14 rural Washington hospitals as at risk of closure from the cuts. Only two House Republicans voted no.
2025-05-22
VOTED CONTRA
Vote contradicts: statement_vs_disclosure
Newhouse explicitly promised in a March 26 commentary that he 'will not support denying any eligible American access to services like Medicaid, Medicare, and SNAP,' then voted for the Big Beautiful Bill on May 22 — legislation projected to cause 194,000 Washingtonians to lose Medicaid coverage and risk 14 rural hospital closures. The Bellingham Herald editorial board wrote that constituents 'have …
2025-03-26 00:00:00+00
PROMISED
Dan Newhouse: vowed he'd never cut Medicaid, then voted for the cuts
In a March 26, 2025 op-ed in the Yakima Herald-Republic, Rep. Dan Newhouse assured constituents that cutting resources for those who rely on Medicaid, Medicare, and SNAP "is not my aim," framing his goal as curbing improper payments. His hometown paper later wrote that he "once swore adamantly that he would never support anything that cut Medicaid benefits."
2025-03-07
VOTED CONTRA
Vote contradicts: statement_vs_disclosure
Newhouse publicly claimed the budget resolution he voted for on February 25 did not mention Medicaid, but the resolution directed the Energy and Commerce Committee to find $880 billion in savings — cuts that independent analysts at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities as well as the state governor confirmed could largely only come from Medicaid and SNAP.
2021
2021-01-13
VOTED CONTRA
Vote contradicts: reversal
Newhouse voted against Trump's first impeachment in 2019 but voted for the second impeachment in 2021 following the January 6 Capitol attack, calling it a defense of the Constitution. This reversal became the defining political liability of his career — Trump targeted him for defeat, and he was one of only two House Republicans who voted to impeach to survive re-election.
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