Washington, D.C. – Today, as American families reel from the GOP health care crisis and Trump prepares to address the nation, Protect Our Care released The Grift That Keeps on Giving, a new report unwrapping Trump and the GOP’s year-long war on American health care. In 2025, the GOPshowered billionaires and big corporations with massive tax cuts while ripping away health care from over 15 million Americans and handing working families nothing but higher health care bills. After taking power in January, Trump and congressional Republicans gave Americans an unprecedented assault on their health care — slashing Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act (ACA), skyrocketing costs, and shuttering hospitals across the country.
Then, before going home for the holidays, GOP lawmakers presented American families with another gift they did not ask for: Republicans voted to cement their massive health care premium hikes for years to come.
As hard-working American families get ready to ring in 2026, here’s what Trump and the GOP are leaving them under the tree:
The Largest Cuts to Health Care in History to Fund Tax Breaks for Billionaires
Doubling, Tripling, and Quadrupling Health Insurance Premiums for Million
Over 600 Hospitals, Clinics, and Nursing Homes Facing Cuts or Closure
Steeper Prices for Lifesaving Drugs
Public Health Devastated by RFK Jr.
“This holiday season, all hard-working families can thank Trump and Republicans for our skyrocketing health care costs,” said Protect Our Care Chair Leslie Dach. “In 2025, the GOP made unprecedented cuts to health care for those who need it most while lavishing billionaires and big corporations with tax breaks. None of this went unnoticed by the American people, who rejected the GOP war on health care in the November elections and have continued to do so in poll after poll since. In 2026, we’ll end this health care chaos by giving Republicans a gift best served at the ballot box: accountability.”
