Gabe Evans Casts Deciding Vote To Slash Medicaid Funding

Rep. Evans’ act of betrayal will define the remainder of his political career

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Thursday, May 22, 2025
CONTACT: Sara Loflin, Executive Director at sara@progressnowcolorado.org

DENVER: Following the 215-214 vote by House Republicans to pass their so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” of devastating cuts to the nation’s social safety nets to pay for even more tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans, ProgressNow Colorado, the state’s largest multi-issue progressive advocacy organization, condemned Rep. Gabe Evans’ deciding vote to pass the bill, and vowed to ensure every voter in Evans’ district understands the needless pain Evans just inflicted on his own constituents.

“Last night’s vote was the first real test of Gabe Evans’ integrity, and he blew it,” said ProgressNow Colorado executive director Sara Loflin. “For months, residents of Evans’ district begged him to step back from the brink and reject his colleagues’ plans to throw millions of Americans off the Medicaid rolls to fund tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans. Because of Gabe Evans’ vote, unless the Senate intervenes to stop this madness, thousands of residents of the Eighth Congressional District will lose their health coverage. Of those thousands, some will not fit Evans’ cheap stereotypes, and those people will suffer so the wealthiest Americans can have more tax cuts. Some of them will die.”

“Gabe Evans’ decisive vote to slash essential needs like health care and food assistance in order to give even more tax cuts to the wealthiest Americans will define what’s left of Evans’ career in public office,” said Loflin. “Gabe Evans chose Trump over Thornton, Musk over Milliken, and greed over Greeley. Evans has betrayed the trust of the voters who narrowly elected him to Congress, many of whom likely had no idea they were voting to cut funding to their own communities. There is no going back now. Before last night, the task was persuasion. From today until Election Day 2026, the job is to hold Gabe Evans accountable for what he did last night.”

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