ICYMI: Pappas Fights to Protect Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security Amid GOP Threats to Cut the Programs After the Midterms

MANCHESTER, N.H. — In case you missed it, House Speaker Mike Johnson recently revealed that MAGA Republicans are planning to cut vital programs like Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security after the midterms, putting the health care and retirements of thousands of hardworking Granite Staters at risk if Democrats don’t take back majorities in the House and Senate. 

“Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security help thousands of Granite Staters retire with dignity and access affordable health care, and they must be protected,” said Congressman Chris Pappas. “But MAGA Republicans, including my likely opponent John Sununu, want to cut these programs to pay for tax breaks to the wealthiest Americans and corporate special interests. I’ll always fight to protect the benefits New Hampshire families have earned and rely on and I’ll keep working to make life more affordable for Granite Staters in the Senate.”

Chris’s campaign for U.S. Senate was endorsed by the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare PAC in recognition of his record defending the benefits that Granite Staters rely on. Pappas cosponsored the bipartisan Social Security Fairness Act, which restored benefits for public servants like firefighters and teachers and is now law, and he took on Big Pharma to cap insulin at $35 for seniors and allow Medicare to negotiate lower drug prices. He also stood up to Trump’s Big Ugly Bill that cut Medicaid to fund billions in tax breaks to the ultrawealthy and handouts to Big Pharma and Big Oil, and he’s working to lower the cost of health care, housing, and groceries for working families, seniors, and veterans. 

Pappas’s likely opponent, John Sununu, would be a rubber stamp for the Trump Administration’s costly agenda. He praised Trump’s Big Ugly Bill because it “pared back Medicare and Medicaid.” When Sununu was last in Washington almost twenty years ago, he led efforts to privatize Social Security — gambling Granite Staters’ hard-earned benefits on the stock market while allowing Wall Street to rake in profits — and he repeatedly voted to cut Medicare. 

The choice in New Hampshire’s Senate race could not be clearer. Chris Pappas is running for Senate to protect Granite Staters’ health care access and hard-earned benefits, stand up to corruption and special interests, and fight every day to make life more affordable for New Hampshire families. John Sununu is in this race to sell New Hampshire out to his corporate special interest backers and to be a rubber stamp for Donald Trump and the GOP’s agenda that put Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security on the chopping block.