The Republican representative lies strangely about helping his condition to survive the medicaid cuts for which he voted

Washington-the representative Derrick Van Order (R-Wis.) Is selling a strange statement that it was key to obtaining $ 1 billion to help hospitals from their state to survive Medicaid’s cuts in the tax bill of President Donald Trump.

Except it wasn’t, and voted for Trump’s bill.

In more than a dozen publications on social networks in recent days, they are trying to be attributed to the governor of Wisconsin, Tony Evers (D) already the state legislators who rush to approve a budget that increases the so -called tax rate of medical suppliers of the State. This is a tax imposed by the State to medical care suppliers, such as hospitals, which the State uses to help pay its Medicaid program. The federal government coincides with the tax rate of the State supplier.

Until recently, Wisconsin had a very low tax rate compared to other states. Because Trump’s tax bill would have frozen that tax rate at its low level, state legislators rushed to increase the rate in their budget so that Wisconsin could be a grandfather in Trump’s fiscal law at the maximum level, which means that he will now obtain $ 1 billion in federal money each year.

Van Order, whose house is qualified A “launch” In the 2026 elections, it seems to want people to believe it was vital for their state to obtain these $ 1 billion to compensate for the pain of the bill that voted. Only in Wisconsin, it is estimated that Trump’s now law kicks more than 258,000 people Out of your health insurance and put at least Three rural hospitals at risk of closing.

In A Friday publicationVan Order complained that a PBS story about Wisconsin state legislators ran to approve their budget to ensure additional federal financing “we did not mention that we work without problems with the state government to do so.”

That The same dayhe accused Evers of telling “a floor lie” about the Republicans in Congress that sell families to pay the tax cuts for the rich in the Trump bill: “We have just obtained $ 1,000,000,000 annually for Badgercare,” said Van Order, referring to the State Medical Program.

He repeatedly took credit for the $ 1 billion in a all day spawn With representative Mark Pocan (D-Wis.), who accused Van Order of lies on the harmful effects of Trump’s tax bill. He did it again on Sunday, in response to a publication on the social networks of Evers promoting that the state budget “guarantees access to medical care.”

“This is due to state Republicans and Congress,” tweeted in Evers. “You know it. I told you.”

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Throughout their positions, Van Order continues to share a copy of a letter that sent Evers on July 2 in which it essentially begs the governor to hurry and approve the state budget to protect Wisconsin hospitals from Medicaid’s cuts in the Tax Law Project for which he voted. He states that this letter is proof that he is the reason why the Governor and the state legislature took rapid measures.

But Evers spokesman told News themezone on Tuesday that they are not playing any role in the negotiations of months between the governor and state legislators about his budget, or in his efforts to move quickly to ensure the additional $ 1 billion to compensate for the Medicaid cuts.

“The congressman Van Order never personally advocated the governor or our office so that the provision of evaluation of the hospital is included in the state budget until it was clearly part of the state budget, it had nothing to do with the hospital evaluation to be part of the state budget of bipartis with the republican leaders, and had nothing to do with the fact that the fact that the governor decided to present the state budget before the Round Recognition, the bill was signed, the bill was signed, “. Cudaback said in a statement.

“If the congressman are ordering to be attributed to support Medicaid and protect Wisconsinitas access to medical care, perhaps he should not have voted for Medicaid and kick 250,000 Wisconsinitas from his medical care.”

– Britt Cudaback, spokesman for the governor of Wisconsin Tony Evers (D)

The governor worked with Democrats in the delegation of the Wisconsin Congress for months to monitor possible federal changes to hospital payments under Trump’s bill, Cudaback added. But Van Order did not communicate with the Office of Evers until June 30, after Evers and the Republican state leaders had already reached a bipartisan state budget agreement.

“It was only then that Congressman Van Order approached to tell the governor and our office something we already knew and that we had planned for a long time, that the state budget would need to be promulgated before President Trump signed the Federal Reconciliation Law draft,” he said.

Cudaback took a chance to the legislator of the Republican party, he said, he said, pretending to worry about protecting people’s medical care after voting to expel so many people.

“In a nutshell, if the congressman go order, he wanted to be attributed to support Medicaid and protect Wisconsinites access to medical care, perhaps he should not have voted for Medicaid and kick 250,000 Wisconsinitas from his medical care,” he said.

Cudaback later called van order directly In social networks too. “It’s not true,” he wrote in response to a van order publication claiming that Evers had secured the $ 1 billion “because I told him that if he did not, we would miss the opportunity once in generation.”

In a brief statement, Van Order told News themezone that it is clear that it was key to the Governor and the Wisconsin state legislature that moved quickly to approve their budget due to the time in which Evers signed it.

“The only reason Tony signed the bill at 1:30 in the morning was to make the deadline I talked and wrote,” he said Tuesday. “Period. Do that mathematics.”

Pocan was still mocking Van order on Monday for trying to attribute the credit for approving a state budget invoice.

“I didn’t realize that I was serving in the state legislature and Congress simultaneously,” Wisconsin Democrat said in a statement. “The state legislature voted to expand Medicaid reimbursements to the states before Derrick, the Republicans of Congress and Trump could force their devastating reconciliation bill that will reduce $ 1 billion of medical care throughout the country and could close rural hospitals throughout the state.”

“You cannot create a problem and then claim credit for another person’s help to make it a little less horrible,” added Pocan. “He and his republican colleagues are the reason why this legislative solution was so necessary in the first place.”