He chairs the Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health. Clinics inside eight Southwest Virginia schools shut down in July, and Virginia's community health centers asked him to intervene.
The only member of Congress who still sees patients told insurance CEOs he'd "turn all of you guys into dust." He is right about them. He also voted Aye on Trump's budget bill, which state health officials say costs North Carolina $49.9 billion in federal Medicaid money over a decade.
Leaked audio from a private fundraiser caught her telling donors her own poll had her up one point and that voters don't know her. Since 2023 her town halls have been by phone only — questions screened in advance, with reporters and constituents left in a queue.
Nine months into the job, Brad Knott had held three town halls — all of them by telephone. On the third, a constituent from the small town of Angier asked how he could support the Medicaid cuts. He said lawmakers 'stand ready' to make changes if needed.
DesJarlais spent 2025 cheering the campaign to shrink the federal government. In March 2026 word got out that the VA was shutting the McMinnville clinic for lack of staff — and nobody had told him. Then he took a victory lap for reopening it.
Only 12 House Republicans voted to cap insulin at $35 a month. Mississippi's Trent Kelly was not one of them — in a state where diabetes costs $5.1 billion a year.
Members of Congress were locked in one room while a mob attacked the Capitol. Three Democrats who sheltered there tested positive. The Capitol's own physician warned that people in the room may have been exposed.
As chairman of the Republican Study Committee, Pfluger unveiled a framework for a second budget bill promising $1 trillion in deficit reduction. KFF projects the last one will cost Texas 480,000 people their health coverage and $27.9 billion in federal Medicaid funding. He calls the new one 'Making the American Dream Affordable Again.'
The $50 billion rural health fund Guest is touring the district to promote was created by the same budget bill he voted for — the one KFF estimates cuts $911 billion from Medicaid, including $137 billion from rural areas. The fund covers about a third of the rural damage, and the law doesn't require the money to reach rural hospitals at all.