Energy and Commerce Committee

NEWS: Top Democrat calls Trump Admin’s Medicaid paperwork requirements “onerous by design”

Here's something Republicans in Congress don't want you to know about: Trump's Big Ugly Bill is taking health care away from children at alarming rates.

Why kids' Medicaid enrollment keeps falling New Medicaid work rules and nearly $1 trillion in cuts to federal program spending are having spillover effects.

ACA premiums up to 26%

Deductibles hitting record highs

Millions can't afford health care

And 1.2 million dropping coverage entirely because of the rising costs

This is what happens when Republicans are in charge of your health care

Eroding ACA Enrollment Portends Higher Insurance Rates - KFF Health News An uptick in people skipping Obamacare premium payments in many states suggests the Affordable Care Act’s rising costs — driven partly by lower subsidies to help people buy plans — are hitting home for 2026 enrollees. The trend adds to voter concerns about affordability ahead of the midterm el...

Is this part of Making America Healthy Again? Allowing families to drink water contaminated with PFAS chemicals?

This is shameful. Americans deserve to trust the water coming out of their tap, not live in fear that it isn’t safe.

EPA wants to repeal limits on ‘forever chemicals’ in drinking water If finalized, the proposal would end the Biden-era restrictions for four toxic PFAS compounds and give utilities two more years to comply with limits on two other compounds.

While you’re worried about paying rising drug costs, Trump is thinking about where to make his next quick buck.

Trump’s always out for himself. He doesn’t care about you.

This week, Ranking Member joined by and wrote a letter to RFK Jr. blasting the ongoing censorship of vaccine efficacy data and demanding he release the studies that were suppressed.

Read the letter below:

Republicans in Congress gutted health care, now the White House is withholding $1.3 billion in Medicaid funding from California.

Seniors, families, and people with disabilities will lose access to care they depend on.

This isn't fraud prevention — it's reckless, and real people will suffer.

Trump Administration Will Withhold $1.3 Billion in Medicaid Payments to California Vice President JD Vance said the state had not done enough to fight fraud in the public health insurance program.

Under Trump, gas is over $4.50 a gallon — up 40% from last year.

These skyrocketing prices are driven by his reckless war in Iran.

Trump’s response?

“I don’t think about Americans’ financial situations.”

Top Energy and Commerce Committee Democrat Frank Pallone Jr. launches inquiry into corporate surveillance pricing practices.

25 major corporations received requests for documentation and answers on whether they charge people different.

“On top of tariffs jacking up prices for consumers, increasing inflation, and surging gas prices due to Trump’s reckless war of choice, Americans now have to worry their personal data may be being used to charge them higher prices,” Pallone wrote. “I am very concerned about companies using Americans’ personal data to determine what prices they see and pay, and I am opening an inquiry into just how widespread this anti-consumer practice is.”

https://democrats-energycommerce.house.gov/media/press-releases/pallone-launches-surveillance-pricing-inquiry