MSNBC Reports on Trump’s Budget Bill Forcing the Closure of Three Virginia Health Clinics Ahead of Governor’s Race

MSNBC Reports on Trump’s Budget Bill Forcing the Closure of Three Virginia Health Clinics Ahead of Governor’s Race

New reporting from MSNBC looks at the closure of three rural health clinics in Virginia as a direct consequence of the disastrous health care cuts in Trump’s budget bill.

Winsome Sears has publicly praised Trump’s bill, saying it “does so many great things.” And while she has still refused to say anything on the closure of these clinics, the Virginia GOP’s executive director called the clinic closures “a win for rural communities.”

Read more from MSNBC’s reporting here:

• If you live in Virginia, here’s a headline you may have seen recently from the Richmond Times-Dispatch: “Three Va. health clinics close as Trump tax law squeezes system.”

• Residents of Virginia’s rural Shenandoah Valley region are about to lose not one, not two, but three of their local health care centers.

• All three of those centers are run by a hospital organization called Augusta Health.

• In a statement announcing these closures, the group said that the decision was “part of Augusta Health’s ongoing response to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act and the resulting realities for healthcare delivery.”

• If you live in rural Virginia and are wondering why you no longer have access to a local health care facility, you can thank President Donald Trump and the Republican Congress for gutting health care funding in their one and only piece of major legislation.

• The executive director of Virginia’s Republican Party was asked about those cuts by CNN. He told them the closure of those three rural health care centers is “a win for rural communities”

• The Virginia Republican Party is telling rural voters who just lost access to health care, “Yeah, we did that, and you should be grateful.

• Sure, why not? Nothing says “winning” like losing access to the only clinic for miles around in your rural community.

• That kind of absolutely tone-deaf, callous response from Virginia Republicans would be strange in normal times. But it is an especially strange thing to hear from them at this important moment.

• On Friday, early voting officially began in Virginia’s high-stakes race for governor.

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