June 30, 2025 11:43 AM UTC

The Doom Knock: Gabe Evans' Photo-Op Tour Of Destruction

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As an antidote to the overwhelmingly negative press about America’s Most Vulnerable Freshman™ Rep. Gabe Evans’ work in Washington, Evans has leaned heavily photo ops at places around the district under the guise of “learning” about nonprofits and businesses who drive the economy in his swing congressional district and meet the basic needs of residents.

The problem is these visits are in many cases to places who are threatened by funding cuts that Evans voted for in the “We’re All Going to Die Act”–and in many cases likely arranged so these groups could lobby Evans to spare them. They didn’t change Evans’ vote, but he’s still happy to post the photos using these community institutions as a backdrop.

Thus establishing a new rule you can take to the bank: If Gabe Evans is coming to see you, you’re probably screwed.

To demonstrate the reliability of the Gabe Evans Doom Knock, we’ve compiled a list:

Tepeyac Community Health

In February, 9News reported on the two Colorado congressional districts, CO-03 and CO-08, who have the most Medicaid patients and therefore the most to lose from the federal budget cuts in Congress. 9News noted that Evans had posted a picture of his visit with Clinica Tepeyac, which prompted the station to confirm with the clinic that they indeed opposed the Medicaid cuts in the budget.

On Monday, as Democrats protested outside Evans’ office, asking him to protect Medicaid, he posted a photo of his stop two weeks ago at Tepeyac Community Health Center writing that it does “critical work with underserved communities.” In a statement to 9NEWS, Tepeyac said in part that cutting Medicaid would mean, “More patients would be forced to seek care in emergency rooms, increasing uncompensated hospital costs and straining the healthcare system. Policymakers need to consider the long-term consequences of Medicaid cuts. Investing in community health centers saves money by keeping people healthier and reducing expensive emergency care. The future of healthcare access in Colorado depends on preserving this essential funding.”

Every Child Pediatrics

In March 2025, Every Child Pediatrics (ECP) executive director Laura Luzietti shared her concerns with the Denver Post about how potential Medicaid cuts could lead to a delay in crucial care for children because “[t]he earlier we intervene, the more successful the intervention is.” In April 2025, Evans visited Every Child Pediatrics and wrote that”[a]s the father of a medically complex kid, finding stronger health outcomes for families across [CD-8] is personal for me.”

The meeting included Luzietti. In June 2025, Luzietti penned an op-ed in Colorado Community Media, where she expressed “grave concerns that the cuts to Medicaid currently being considered by Congress will be devastating for Colorado families.”

“If we fail our children now by cutting off their coverage or the coverage for the adults in their lives, it will be at the expense of our state today and for many years to come. The future of Colorado depends on the ability of our children to become healthy, productive adults who continue to help our communities thrive. We should protect Medicaid – for kids, for families, and for Colorado.”

Weld Food Bank/Feeding Colorado

On May 20 2025, Feeding Colorado released a statement on the budget reconciliation bill that called on lawmakers to reject potential SNAP and Medicaid funding cuts.

“With the sustained high cost of food and health care, this is not the time to scale back essential programs that help families stay afloat. Families, seniors, veterans, and children in our community work hard every day to build better lives – but they need a strong foundation to succeed. Access to food and health care is that foundation.”

In May 2025, following the release of the statement, Gabe Evans visited Weld Food Bank to “learn more about how they’re serving our community and making a difference in the lives of local families.”

Feeding Colorado wrote that they “discussed the importance of critical nutrition programs such as the Local Food Purchasing Agreement, senior box program, and TEFAP which support local farmers and reduce food insecurity!” Feeding Colorado executive director Mandy Nuku and Weld Food Bank CEO Bob O’Connor attended the visit.

In June 2025, Feeding Colorado signed onto a letter addressed to Colorado’s congressional delegation asking them to oppose the deep SNAP cuts proposed in the budget reconciliation bill.

During a June 2025 virtual roundtable discussion hosted by Senator Michael Bennet, Feeding Colorado executive director Mandy Nuku stated that “the cuts proposed would structurally change our nation’s first line of defense against hunger, pushing costs to states, which is revenue Colorado simply does not have. It will mean impossible choices not only for families but for grocers and agro-businesses.”

InnovAge

In April 2025, InnovAge announced it was boosting its advocacy work to remind elected and government officials of the importance of the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) in the face of potential Medicaid cuts and reorganization of the Department of Health and Human Services.

“Do legislators understand what PACE is doing in terms of high-quality, cost-effective outcomes — most of them do, but many don’t — and do they understand how and why PACE is able to achieve these things?”

The National PACE Association (NPA) called on members of Congress to reject cuts to Medicaid and state funding that could “have a dramatic, negative impact on the options available for families to care for seniors.”

In June 2025, Evans’ district staff visited InnovAge where the company showed off their “integrated model of care, cross-functional teamwork, and the impact [they] make every day through InnovAge PACE.”

Sandbox Solar, E2, Scout Clean Energy, Redeux Energy

In March 2025, E2 tweeted that “[w]eakening tax credits raises costs for US families, hurts companies like Amprius Technologies that are investing billions & creating thousands of jobs in places like Brighton, CO. E2 agrees with [Gabe Evans].”
Gabe Evans: “As energy demand continues to skyrocket, any modifications that inhibit our ability to deploy new energy production risk sparking an energy crisis in our country.”

In April 2025, Gabe Evans met with leaders from Sandbox Solar, Redeux Energy, Scout Clean Energy, and E2 where he was thanked for “recognizing that preserving the energy tax credits is consistent with an all-of-the-above approach to serving unprecedented electric load growth while driving local economic development and expanding US high-tech manufacturing capability.”

Gabe Evans said, “Business leaders in #CO08 are united in support for clean energy tax credits. I support keeping clean energy tax credits in place to fuel job growth and improve the economy within Colorado and the U.S.” In May 2025, Sandbox Solar called on their Twitter followers to contact their representatives to protect the Residential Solar Tax Credit.

Pivot Energy and Vestas

In March 2025, Gabe Evans participated in an “energy tour” of CD-8 that included trips to a Pivot Energy solar and energy storage facility and a Vestas wind turbine manufacturing factory.

“Pivot Energy is excited that Congressman Evans visited one of our dual-use solar projects in Weld County, Colorado and saw how solar and agriculture production work together to maximize the co-benefits of our solar projects. As demand for energy continues to rise, Weld County is a prime example of how an ‘All of the Above’ energy approach is creating jobs, and providing economic benefits and low-cost, reliable power for local communities.”

“Vestas was honored to host Representative Gabe Evans at our nacelle factory in Brighton, Colorado. We fully support Representative Evans’ position that an all of the above energy approach is needed to help meet the nation’s growing energy demand. With nearly 1,800 manufacturing employees in Colorado and $1.7 billion spent across the U.S. supply chain last year alone, Vestas is committed to strengthening domestic energy production, supporting local economic development, and powering communities across the U.S.”

In a May 2025 op-ed, Pivot Energy CEO Tom Hunt called on lawmakers to protect the Clean Energy Investment Tax Credit (ITC) in order to secure “economic competitiveness, national security and community resilience.”

At a May 2025 roundtable, representatives from power and utilities companies like Vestas suggested that a rollback of IRA credits could lead to lost jobs and higher costs. In Vestas’ 2025 Q1 report, the company wrote that “[c]urrent tariffs levels create notable challenges to the execution of the backlog, especially in the USA.”

Kaiser Permanente

In February 2025, Kaiser Permanente published an article titled, “Our nation’s health suffers if Congress cuts Medicaid.”

“In the end, cutting federal funding doesn’t really save money — it just shifts costs elsewhere. Policymakers must pursue responsible solutions that preserve needed care.”

In April 2025, Kaiser Permanente wrote again, “Congress must protect Medicaid and insurance tax credits.”

In May 2025, Evans met with Kaiser Permanente leaders in Colorado to “discuss ways we can improve health care access for families in [CD-8].”

Queso Campesino

In April 2025, Gabe Evans visited Queso Campesino and hailed the cheese company as “a great example of local entrepreneurship and the American Dream in [CD-8].”

In May 2025, Queso Campesino owner Gabriel Robles said he was unsure whether he would be supporting Republicans in the next election due to the uncertainty that the Trump tariffs had caused his business.

Denver Health

In February 2025, Denver Health CEO Donna Lynn suggested that they could lose up to $1 billion due to potential Medicaid cuts leading to layoffs, reductions in services, and cut backs to research. Nearly half of the 280,000 patients seen annually by Denver Health are on federal health insurance.

In March 2025, Evans visited Denver Health to discuss “the 340B drug discount program, Medicaid, and the Regional Disaster Health Response System.”

In May 2025, Denver Health Chief Of Government Affairs Steve Federico suggested that over 180,000 Coloradans could lose healthcare if the OBBB was signed into law.

“The net result is more uninsured, more uncompensated care, more patients foregoing care and waiting until something is an emergency, ultimately risking their lives, and in the end, costing the system more money.”

“…It makes no sense. The intent is to have people disenroll to save money in the short run, make no mistake about it. When similar policies have been enacted in the past, health systems like Denver Health have witnessed the hardship that families go through.”

Sunrise Community Health

In February 2025, Sunrise Community Health Tweeted that “[a]ny [Medicaid] cuts would be catastrophic for our communities” and called on their followers to contract members of Congress.

On March 13, 2025, Sunrise Community Health thanked Gabe Evans for visiting their Monfort Family Clinic to discuss “the vital role health centers like Sunrise play in strengthening healthcare.”

Although it took some time to compile, this should not be considered an exhaustive list of visits by Rep. Evans to institutions and businesses who are adamantly opposed to the Republican budget bill that Evans voted for–a bill that has surprisingly gotten worse instead of better since moving to the Senate. The closest parallel to this kind of shameless posturing with victims of his own polices was Sen. Cory Gardner, who had six years to spread out the double-dealing.

Rarely has a member of Congress packed so much duplicity into so few months in office, and it needed to go on the record in one place.