Did David Valadao vote the way they spoke on health care in June 2025?
David Valadao, U.S. Representative (R-CA-22) ·
The Senate proposal also undermines the balanced approach taken to craft the Medicaid provisions in H.R. 1—particularly regarding provider taxes and state directed payments. … Protecting Medicaid is essential for the vulnerable constituents we were elected to represent. Therefore, we cannot support a final bill that threatens access to coverage or jeopardizes the stability of our hospitals and providers.
Voted Yea, 3 Jul 2025
Valadao led a letter objecting to the Senate's Medicaid provider-tax and state-directed-payment changes, saying the signers could not support a final bill that threatens coverage. Nine days later Valadao voted for the Senate version, which kept those changes.
Valadao led a letter that objected to the Senate's Medicaid provider-tax and state-directed-payment changes and said the signers could not support a final bill that threatens access to coverage or jeopardizes the stability of hospitals and providers. He then voted for the Senate-amended bill, which kept those changes. His July 3 statement said the Senate version made more Medicaid changes than the House bill and that he still had concerns with the provider tax and state directed payment provisions.
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Said one thing, voted another
What they said
- Date
- Where
- Lead signer of a letter from 16 House Republicans to Senate Majority Leader John Thune and Speaker Mike Johnson on the Senate's Medicaid text.
How they voted
- Date
- Measure
- H.R. 1, One Big Beautiful Bill Act
- Question
- On Motion to Concur in the Senate Amendment
- Vote
- Yea