July 02, 2025 10:38 AM UTC

Gabe Evans All In For "We're All Going To Die Act," All Eyes On Hurd

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• by: Colorado Pols

This morning, America’s Most Vulnerable Freshman™ Rep. Gabe Evans removed any lingering doubt about his unswerving support for President Donald Trump’s budget reconciliation megabill known as the “We’re All Going To Die Act,” even after certain aspects of the legislation including cuts to Medicaid and renewable energy were made even more harmful by the Senate than the House version Evans voted for:

Hi, I’m Congressman Gabe Evans from Colorado’s 8th Congressional District, which is northeast Denver suburbs, and then north to Greeley from there. But before this job, I spent 12 years in the US Army in the Colorado Army National Guard, part of the global war on terror, and then another 10 years as a police officer with the city of Arvada, northwest suburb of the Denver metro area.

And that’s why I’m so excited about this big, beautiful bill, because I’ve put 22 years combined of my life on the line, making sure that we protect our country, we protect our state, we protect our Communities.

This bill provides us the tools to finally secure the border once and for all. It gives us the ability to crack down on the cartels, the violent terrorists, the different organizations that are trafficking drugs and other poison into our community, and through this one big beautiful bill, that same mission that I fought for in the military and law enforcement will finally have the resources to be put into effect and keep our communities safe and make America and Colorado a good place to live, to work, and raise families again.

I spent 22 years in military and law enforcement defending our country, and I’m continuing that mission in Congress.

The One Big Beautiful Bill secures the border, cracks down on crime, and puts public safety first. 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/2xqG82Qj6E

— Congressman Gabe Evans (@repgabeevans) July 2, 2025

After all these months of difficulty trying to put a happy face on what the experts have insisted all along were massive cuts that could put both health care providers and patient lives in danger, and Evans’ much-derided after-the-fact letter to Senators begging them to undo renewable energy cuts he voted for in the House bill, Evans simply ignores all of those issues to focus on…you guessed it, cracking down on undocumented immigrants.

In short, Gabe Evans is staying on message until the bitter end. He’s proven that none of his expressed concerns about the bill actually mattered, since they aren’t enough for him to use the power he has in the closely-divided House to demand changes to anything he doesn’t want. Gabe Evans, in a district that calls for a member of mainstream society who can appeal beyond partisan boundaries, is cementing his reputation as a MAGA loyalist whose fealty to Donald Trump matters more than telling the truth back home.

Like Sen. Cory Gardner before him, there’s only one solution to the Gabe Evans problem: the ballot box.

With Evans having removed himself from the list of possible Republican lawmakers willing to stop this impending train wreck for the good of the country, attention now turns to fellow Republican freshman Rep. Jeff “Bread Sandwich” Hurd, whose district contains the highest percentage of residents reliant on Medicaid coverage. Hurd bitterly disappointed constituents who were hoping he would oppose the original House version, and since then Hurd has been intensely lobbied by both constituents and healthcare providers in his district about the consequences of passing either version of the bill. Like Evans, Hurd has tried to cover his backside after the fact with letters asking the Senate to vote more responsibly than he did. As the Aspen Times’ Robert Tann reports, Hurd said yesterday that “significant changes” were needed for the bill to get back out of the House:

Hurd’s congressional district spans much of the Western Slope and southern Colorado and has the highest rate of Medicaid recipients in the state. Hurd, in a statement shared through his spokesperson on Tuesday, said the bill “is going to require significant changes in order to pass.”

“I look forward to working with leadership and my colleagues to pass a bill consistent with the promises we made on the campaign trail,” Hurd said.

On the campaign trail, Hurd promised to “expand healthcare access for rural Colorado.” It’s a promise that Hurd already broke with his vote for the House budget bill, and now an even more harmful version of the bill is coming back for another vote in the House. The only way for Hurd to keep his campaign trail promise is to vote against this legislation as it exists today–and those “significant changes” must mean a full rollback of proposed cuts to Medicaid. Anything less is an abandonment of Hurd’s promise to expand health care access.

Having settled the question of Gabe Evans’ loyalties, now it’s time to see if Jeff Hurd has the courage to meet this historic moment. The GOP trifecta in Washington is about to pass the least popular major piece of legislation in decades, perhaps in our lifetimes. There is the question of the political damage this will do to Republicans in the upcoming midterm elections, but also the moral component of this outcome: real harm done to real people who we live near, know, and maybe are personally.

None of this has to be happening. The last chance to pull back from the brink is now.