{"id":28051,"date":"2025-07-01T13:23:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T17:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/?post_type=press-releases&#038;p=28051"},"modified":"2025-07-01T15:29:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T19:29:19","slug":"watch-sen-ossoff-on-gop-budget-this-bill-is-a-disaster-for-the-state-of-georgia","status":"publish","type":"press-releases","link":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/watch-sen-ossoff-on-gop-budget-this-bill-is-a-disaster-for-the-state-of-georgia\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Sen. Ossoff on GOP Budget: \u201cThis Bill is a Disaster for the State of Georgia\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Washington, D.C. \u2014<\/strong> Today, U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff voted against the GOP budget that guts Medicaid and crushes nursing homes &amp; hospitals, drives up health insurance premiums for middle-class families, and takes a hatchet to Georgia&#8217;s fast-growing clean energy industries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sen. Ossoff held a news conference to discuss his vote against this bill that is bad for Georgia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis bill is a disaster for the State of Georgia. It guts the Medicaid program and puts nursing homes and hospitals at risk. It will drive up health insurance premiums for working and middle-class families in Georgia, and it takes a hatchet to the fast-growing industry that is driving Georgia&#8217;s economic development,\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/zgyAZ8NJhhw\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/zgyAZ8NJhhw\">Sen. Ossoff said.<\/a> <\/strong>\u201cThat is why I oppose this bill. That is why I worked so hard to defeat this bill. That is why even some Senate Republicans oppose this bill. And I call upon the Republicans in Georgia&#8217;s U.S. House delegation to put Georgia ahead of partisanship and oppose a bill that is bad for Georgia&#8217;s health and bad for Georgia&#8217;s economy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"># # #<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, D.C. \u2014 Today, U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff voted against the GOP budget that guts Medicaid and crushes nursing homes &amp; hospitals, drives up health insurance premiums for middle-class families, and takes a hatchet to Georgia&#8217;s fast-growing clean energy industries. Sen. Ossoff held a news conference to discuss his vote against this bill that is [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28051","press-releases","type-press-releases","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/28051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press-releases"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/28051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28055,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/28051\/revisions\/28055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}