Trump Touts Rural Health Fund in Affordability Push

“I’m all about the rural community,” Trump said in remarks that aired live on Newsmax and the Newsmax2 free online streaming platform. “We won the rural communities by numbers that nobody’s ever won them before, and we’re taking care of those great people.”

The Pew Research Center reported that Trump won rural voters in 2024 by 40 points, 69%-29%, over Kamala Harris, exceeding his winning margins in 2016 and 2020.

“We increased funding for rural healthcare by an unprecedented record, setting $50 billion over five years, which will benefit Americans in all 50 states,” Trump said. “And this was made possible by cutting massive waste, fraud, and abuse from Medicaid and reinvesting those funds to revitalize hospitals and our cherished rural communities and hospitals in rural communities.”

The Rural Health Transformation Program was added late in the legislative process as a juicy enticement for the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, addressing concerns in the Senate about the impact Medicaid cuts could have on rural communities. Continue reading…