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Gomez amendment to extend premium tax credits for women and children fails on party-line roll call
Summary
Rep. Gomez offered an amendment to extend premium tax credits that would cushion families facing premium increases from changes to Medicaid and other provisions; the amendment failed on a recorded vote, 19-24.
Representative Gomez offered an amendment to extend premium tax credits for women and children and to soften the impact on families who could lose Medicaid coverage under other provisions in the reconciliation package. Gomez argued the bill would raise premiums for working- and middle-class families and cited specific district-level effects during remarks to the committee.
Gomez said a family of four earning $64,000 in the chairman’s district would face an additional $2,571 in annual premiums under the committee bill as presented. He also said the package would lead to 4 million more uninsured Americans and described proposed Medicaid cuts of $715 billion as the largest in program history.
After brief discussion, the committee called the roll. The clerk reported 19 yeses and 24 noes; the amendment was not agreed to.
Gomez concluded his remarks by urging colleagues to consider a different distribution of tax benefits that would help working and middle-class families rather than large tax reductions for high earners or corporations.
