Ranking member of the Senate Committee on Aging, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), issued a report on Wednesday titled, “Confusion & Chaos: 2025 & President Trump’s Betrayal of America’s Seniors,” which detailed “the harm caused by President Trump’s attacks on Social Security, Medicaid, nutrition assistance, and other programs that seniors rely on.”

If the Democrats were to take back control of the Senate in this year’s midterms elections, she would certainly be in line for the chair of the Aging panel, making her report something to at least note, said a nursing home industry source who wished to remain anonymous.

Gillibrand’s report focuses on “eight harms” that represent the Trump Administration’s failure to support seniors during his first year in office, including the deep cuts to the Medicaid program contained in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act of last July and the repeal of the Biden-era mandatory staffing rule for skilled nursing facilities, the senator said.

Gillibrand alluded to nursing home industry lobbying as the reason for the administration’s decision to repeal the staffing rule, echoing a late-January report in The New York Times connecting a high-dollar political event involving SNF executives and President Trump to the mandate’s demise.

In response, Mark Parkinson, former head of the American Health Care Association/National Center for Assisted Living, and CEO of Park Place Live, wrote on this site that there was no connection since the mandate was already dead.

Read the senator’s statement and link to her report here.

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