To: The Virginia State House and The Virginia State Senate
Call out the General Assembly for their dirty budget!
Progress Virginia
Instead of working in the best interest of constituents to close the coverage gap, the Virgina General Assembly engaged in shady backroom deals to deny health insurance to 400,000 Virginians. Every legislator who voted to move it forward went back on their word to support a clean budget and then consider Medicaid expansion.
There is nothing clean about a budget loaded up at the last minute with ideological double-dealing that precludes helping needy Virginians for the next two years.
There is nothing clean about a budget loaded up at the last minute with ideological double-dealing that precludes helping needy Virginians for the next two years.
Why is this important?
The Virginia GOP revealed last week that their repeated calls for a "clean" budget were disingenuous at best and an outright deception at worst. Days after engineering the resignation of a State Senator in order to grab control of the upper chamber, Republicans abandoned their oft-cited call for a "clean" budget and instead overtly threatened to torpedo the state budget unless the General Assembly agreed to legislation prohibiting future Medicaid expansion.