Rep. Evans Votes for Budget Resolution
WASHINGTON — Congressman Gabe Evans issued the following video statement after voting for the budget resolution bill tonight:
By voting for the budget resolution, here is what Rep. Evans supported:
✅ Addressing America’s fentanyl trafficking problem, including the role social media plays on fentanyl distribution particularly among minors.
✅ Ensuring a long-term sustainability solution for Medicare and Medicaid so these programs can continue to serve pregnant mothers, children, seniors, and the disabled.
It has been repeatedly stated the plan is to focus on waste, fraud, and abuse within Medicaid and not cut benefits. Medicaid cuts aren’t specifically listed in the resolution. Those who conflate the two are more interested in stoking fear amongst Colorado’s most vulnerable instead of telling the truth.
✅ Pursuing lower health care costs by addressing fraud in the health care system, streamlining the system, and improving health cost transparency.
✅ Promoting domestic manufacturing and addressing supply chain resilience.
✅ Securing the future of American energy, including oil and natural gas, coal, hydroelectric power, nuclear power, geothermal, and more.
✅ Examining threats to the U.S. electric grid, including cybersecurity and physical threats.
✅ Siding with consumers by rewarding innovation, ensuring benefits for businesses, and enhancing domestic energy security.
✅ Providing oversight to energy research and development, as well as new technologies, products, and businesses including clean energy and nuclear.
✅ Updating internet policy from the current decades-old, siloed approach to policy about wireless, broadcast, cable, and satellite.
✅ Investigating whether current regulations are helping or hindering broadband deployment.
✅ Reviewing wasteful government spending.
If you have questions about how this vote fits into the larger picture of the federal government budget process, please don’t hesitate to reach out to delanie.bomar@mail.house.gov.