Governor Kotek: H.R.1 would cut Medicaid by more than $1 trillion, pledges to protect Oregon health care

Governor Kotek said she met with frontline health care workers and warned that President Trump's H.R.1 would make sweeping cuts to Medicaid funding, saying the proposal would eliminate "over $1,000,000,000,000" in federal support.

Kotek, who identified herself at the start of the remarks, said she was "angry about the position that we have been put in" and warned that no state could replace federal funding on that scale. "These cuts will hurt patients and families and put more pressure on clinics and hospitals and the people who care for all of us," she said. She attributed the proposal to the Trump administration and said "real people are paying the price."

Kotek said she met with health care workers to hear the local impacts and described the federal measure sarcastically as the administration's "1 big beautiful bill." She pledged that, "united with our frontline health care workers, I will do everything we can to protect Oregonians and our health care system," and urged continued collective effort to "keep fighting back and working together to fix this."

The statement is an expression of the governor's opposition and does not announce a formal state action or vote. The governor presented the $1,000,000,000,000 figure as the magnitude of cuts in H.R.1 as she characterized it; the article attributes that figure to her remarks rather than independently verifying the estimate. No formal legislative or administrative action by the state was described in the remarks.