TRENTON, NJ – More than 300,000 New Jerseyans are set to lose their health care if Donald Trump gets his way, with this state losing $3.6B every year in health care funding.

Jack Ciattarelli doesn’t just support that – as NOTUS reports today, he’s tying himself into knots to defend Trump kicking hundreds of thousands of people off their health care in New Jersey:

“He’s denied the cuts”

“He said that those asking about… cuts in the bill are just targeting Trump.”

 “‘They want to pick on the president,’ he said.”

“He called discussions of the cuts ‘lies… President Trump's not cutting any of those things.’”

“If you’re worried about losing your Medicaid coverage in New Jersey, Jack Ciattarelli thinks you ‘want to pick on the president,’ and if you talk about the 300,000 people here who Trump wants to kick off their care, he says you’re lying – Ciattarelli, who says he agrees with Donald Trump on every single issue, will stop at nothing to defend Trump and put him before New Jersey every single time,” said New Jersey Democratic State Committee spokesperson Ryan Radulovacki.

NOTUS: Hill Republicans Want to Cut Medicaid. These Gubernatorial Candidates Have to Answer for It.

By Shifra Dayak

• [Ciattarelli,] the former state lawmaker, vying for the second time in a general election to become New Jersey’s governor, is having to answer for a bill that would cut Medicaid by $793 billion over the next 10 years and push 10.3 million people off the program by 2034, per the Congressional Budget Office’s estimates.

• In recent rally speeches and interviews, Ciattarelli has responded to questions about the bill in different ways. He’s denied the cuts, saying he stands behind President Donald Trump — who supports the legislation… Ciattarelli told a reporter last week that he does not currently disagree with Trump on anything.

• Earlier this month, he said that those asking about… cuts in the bill are just targeting Trump.

• “They want to talk about Medicaid, they want to talk about Medicare, they want to talk about Social Security, they want to pick on the president,” he said at a rally on June 1 of the Democratic contenders for New Jersey governor.

• But at a town hall in Bergen County on May 28, he called discussions of the cuts “lies.” “President Trump’s not cutting any of those things,” Ciattarelli said at the town hall. 

• “More than 300,000 New Jerseyans are set to lose their Medicaid coverage thanks to Donald Trump, but Jack Ciattarelli said ‘I do not’ disagree with Trump on a single issue,” New Jersey Democratic State Committee spokesperson Ryan Radulovacki told NOTUS in a statement. “The next governor of this state needs to stand up to this administration’s attacks on health care, not roll over like ‘100% MAGA’ Jack would every time."