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Republican bill's Medicaid and SNAP food aid cuts roughly equal tax cuts for the richest
May 22, 2025

PHILADELPHIA (May 22, 2025) – Congressman Dwight Evans (D-PA-3) said the fight isn’t over to stop a bill pushed by President Trump that would kick more than 50,000 Philadelphians off Medicaid health coverage. The House of Representatives passed it Thursday morning.


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Seal of Congress
April 17, 2025

WASHINGTON (April 17, 2025) – U.S. Rep. Dwight Evans (D-PA-3rd) and Sen. Edward J.


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Seal of Congress
April 11, 2025

WASHINGTON (April 11, 2025) – Congressman Dwight Evans (D-PA-3) and House and Senate colleagues have reintroduced what Evans calls “poverty-busting” legislation to expand the Earned Income Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit.


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Seal of Congress
March 13, 2025

WASHINGTON (March 13, 2025) – U.S. Reps. Dwight Evans (D-PA) and Kathy Castor (D-FL) led a group of 22 members of Congress in denouncing the Trump Administration’s latest move to rip away health care by eliminating funding for health care navigators.


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West Front of Capitol Building
March 11, 2025

WASHINGTON (March 11, 2025) – Congressman Dwight Evans (D-PA-3) announced he will vote “No” on a House Republican funding bill that fails to stop or reverse recent mass firings and funding freezes. 


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Graphic of the eastern Pennsylvannia's congressional Districts. Large text: "1 in 4 Pennsylvanians are at risk of losing their Medicaid health care coverage because of GOP cuts to federal funding." There is a breakdown of the individual impacts on the highlighted congressional districts. 117,747 in the 1st Congressional District on Medicaid. 312,055 in the 2nd Congressional District on Medicaid. 247,552 in the 3rd Congressional District on Medicaid. 118,434 in the 4th Congressional District on Medicaid. 176