Energy & Commerce Democrats
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Fighting to protect health care, lower costs, defend consumers, and lead the clean energy transition under Ranking Member @repfrankpallone.bsky.social
Republicans made devastating cuts to health care to give tax breaks to billionaires, now hundreds of local hospitals are at risk of closure.
Republicans promised they weren’t cutting health care. One year later and millions have lost their health insurance coverage.
New report from Health Committee leaders @pallone.house.gov and @wyden.senate.gov finds Trump’s Big Ugly Bill continues to take health care away from millions, shutter hospitals, and raise prices for Americans.
Health Leaders @pallone.house.gov and @wyden.senate.gov urge Trump Administration to repeal harmful Medicaid work reporting requirements rule, which will take health care away from millions of eligible Americans.
Medicare and Medicaid were created 61 years ago to ensure seniors and low-income Americans have access to quality health care. While Democrats fight to strengthen Medicare and Medicaid, Republicans threaten their future by prioritizing the needs of their billionaire buddies.
NEW: Top E&C Democrat @pallone.house.gov calls for accountability and new federal guardrails on the fast pace of data center construction across the country. Today he begins by demanding transparency from one of the most egregious offenders: SpaceXAI.
NEW: Power companies requested more than $9 BILLION in rate increases in just the past three months alone – and there’s no end in sight. Americans can’t afford to keep paying the price for Republicans’ disastrous energy agenda.
NEW REPORT from @pallone.house.gov and @wyden.senate.gov details Trump’s Big Ugly Bill’s catastrophic consequences for maternal health care in America.
A year after Trump signed his Big Ugly Bill millions have lost coverage, premiums are skyrocketing, deductibles are higher, and hospitals are shuttering.
🚨Tonight, the House overwhelmingly voted to pass the KIDS Act, a bipartisan bill to protect our kids online and finally rein in Big Tech.
Don’t be fooled! Republicans claim “waste, fraud and abuse” as cover to dismantle Medicaid. If they were serious, @repfletcher.bsky.social says they would investigate Trump and his Administration.
BREAKING: Top E&C Democrat @pallone.house.gov calls for a national moratorium on AI data centers.
Democrats @pallone.house.gov , @degette.house.gov, and @repyvetteclarke.bsky.social today wrote to NIH Director Bhattacharya raising serious concern about a new OMB rule that threatens to politicize grantmaking at the medical research agency. They demanded that the rule be revoked.
Turns out the Trump Admin revamping the entire BEAD program to give BILLIONS in taxpayer money to their buddy Elon was a predictably bad idea. Who could have guessed the result would be working families being fleeced by Republicans’ rich grifting friends? 🙄
Donald “no new wars” Trump missed his own memo and now Americans are suffering outrageous price hikes all for a reckless war in Iran no one wants. It’s almost like the unhinged pseudo-celebrity con man who’s declared bankruptcy six times doesn’t know wtf he’s doing.
Prices are out of control, but Trump says "I love the inflation."
NEWS: Top Democrat @pallone.house.gov calls Trump Admin’s Medicaid paperwork requirements “onerous by design”
With millions of Americans hitting the road for Memorial Day weekend travel, the price of gas and other everyday costs are still soaring as the war in Iran continues. To Trump, it's just "peanuts."
While you’re worried about paying rising drug costs, Trump is thinking about where to make his next quick buck. Trump’s always out for himself. He doesn’t care about you.
This week, Ranking Member @RepPallone joined by @RepDegette and @RepYvetteClark wrote a letter to RFK Jr. blasting the ongoing censorship of vaccine efficacy data and demanding he release the studies that were suppressed. Read the letter below:
Under Trump, gas is over $4.50 a gallon — up 40% from last year. These skyrocketing prices are driven by his reckless war in Iran. Trump’s response? “I don’t think about Americans’ financial situations.”
People can't afford groceries and President Trump is spending his time trying to get Jimmy Kimmel fired over jokes. There's nothing funny about that. Stand firm Disney, do not bend the knee to this wannabe king.
While Republicans are gutting clean energy and ignoring the climate crisis, Democrats will always fight for our future — our planet and our kids are worth fighting for #EarthDay2026
Gas prices are soaring over $4 a gallon and what are Republicans doing about it? Going after California for incentivizing EVs. What a joke.
NEWS: @pallone.house.gov and @degette.house.gov ask Republican Reps Guthrie and Griffith to help reveal details of secretive White House agreements with pharmaceutical companies.
And once again Trump’s Big Oil buddies make billions off the backs of Americans…
Trump and Congressional Republicans are breaking every promise they made to the American people – especially their promise to lower the cost of living. @menendez.house.gov calls them out at today’s hearing.
If FCC Chairman Brendan Carr wants to target news outlets for distortion, he should be filing a complaint against Fox News for using old footage of Trump. Carr's blatant inconsistencies prove his complaints have nothing to do with the public interest--it's all about giving Trump a leg up.
Trump and Dr. Oz continue to sabotage the Affordable Care Act and make health care more expensive for Americans. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) needs to abandon its proposed harmful changes to the ACA marketplace.