Why is Dan Newhouse Voting Against the Interests of his Eastern Washington Constituents? (They Want to Know)
Joel Connelly
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If you missed the so-so 1990s movie “Twister,” much more entertainment comes in watching the gyrations of U.S. Rep. Dan Newhouse, one of our state’s two Republican members of Congress. Unfortunately, voters of the 4th District are bearing costs of the show.
Newhouse is one of those Republican officeholders who is very concerned, about undocumented agricultural workers and kids needing health care — before voting with Trump at crunch time. It is all the more remarkable in that he was one of 10 GOP House members who voted to impeach the 45th President after Trump incited the U.S. Capitol insurrection of January 6, 2022.
As the Yakima Herald Republic, Newhouse’s home newspaper, editorialized: “One of the politicians who voted for all this was our own Representative Dan Newhouse, the Sunnyside Republican, who once swore adamantly that he would never support anything that cut Medicaid benefits.” At the 11th hour, he voted for Trump’s Big Budget Bill.
He voted to cut Medicaid, providing a decisive vote as the House sent Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” to the Senate. The “Big Ugly” will slash $1.1 trillion from Medicaid in the next decade, and cut off Medicaid to 11.8 million Americans, according to the Congressional Research Service.
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