The California Health Care Foundation, an independent nonprofit group that studies health issues, estimates that two-thirds of all residents in the district get help from Medi-Cal. Valadao represents a majority Latino district that includes most of Kings County and slices of Tulare and Kern counties.

David Valadao “jeopardized health care coverage for millions of Americans with a cruel budget blueprint?” Has Rep. Adam Gray voted to “keep health care costs high?” So say their political opponents. But those opponents’ claims are wildly exaggerated.

The GOP-written budget resolution could lead to a $16 billion annual loss in federal funding for health care in the Central Valley.

Dozens of Kern Residents stood in front of Congressman David Valadao's Bakersfield office to vote against proposed cuts to the Medicaid healthcare program.

Political activists made a final push Monday to persuade Rep. David Valadao, R-Hanford, to oppose budget cuts proposed in Congress that would endanger federal spending on the Medicaid program that as many as two-thirds of his constituents rely on for their health care.

As a deadline to avoid a partial government shutdown nears, hesitation is surfacing among Washington’s Republican lawmakers

“David Valadao is so out of touch with the Central Valley that he has chosen fealty to Donald Trump and his D.C. Party Bosses over hardworking California families. Valadao will come to regret ...