“New Jersey is last in the nation for rural health funding under a system designed by the Trump administration to punish states that protect seniors, kids, and working people, and the $147 million New Jersey received doesn’t come close to what the state is losing from Republican Medicaid cuts,” Rep. Frank Pallone (D-6th) said in statement to NJ Spotlight News.”

This is what the NRCC says about Kean…“Tom Kean, Jr. continues to show that he is laser focused on what matters to New Jersey families,” Maureen O’Toole, a spokeswoman for the group, said in a statement released in January.”

This is what Kean actually does…”Last year, Kean voted for the law that pulled billions in dollars out of the state he represents. Kean’s office did not respond to a request for comment on the funding issue.“

“Pallone, the top Democrat on Energy and Commerce, which has oversight over health policy, said the “new Republican ‘program’ is merely an exercise in covering their backsides” after cutting national health funding.”

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