President Donald Trump, his administration’s top health officials, and state Congressional Republicans are traveling to Reading, Ohio, and Hebron, Kentucky, today as part of the GOP’s ongoing efforts to convince voters that affordability is not an issue.  

Health care costs have risen alongside energy costs, grocery costs, and prices for other essentials since Trump took office. Last summer, Trump signed the GOP’s budget bill that repealed more than $1 trillion from Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act, which will leave 15 million people without health care insurance and further increase costs. The bill also cut funding for job-creating clean energy and manufacturing projects in Ohio and across the country. All of Ohio’s Republican representatives in Congress, including Sen. Jon Husted (R-OH), voted to pass the bill.

In response to the visit, the BlueGreen Alliance released a statement from Executive Director Jason Walsh:

“President Trump, with full cooperation from Sen. Husted and the rest of the GOP Congress, gave a tax cut to billionaires and paid for it by stealing access to health care coverage from millions of people and cutting funding for clean energy projects that would have created good-paying jobs for workers. Now they’re scrambling to save face as families see costs skyrocketing across the board. Vanity trips around the country won’t change the fact that Trump, Husted, and Congressional Republicans have raised costs for working people. They sold out working Ohioans to curry favor with billionaire donors.”