In January 2025, Ciscomani wrote a performative letter urging House Republican leadership not to cut Medicaid, Pell Grants, or SNAP in the budget process. However, in February 2025, Ciscomani voted for a bill that directed the House Energy and Commerce Committee to make $880 billion worth of cuts. It has been widely reported that House Republicans would have to cut Medicaid in order to achieve that goal. An estimated 86,000 Arizonans, or 15 percent of his Ciscomani’s district, get their health insurance through Medicaid or CHIP.
Ciscomani was so supportive of the Department of Government Efficiency that he decided to join the Congressional DOGE Caucus, which he was “thrilled” to do. In Arizona, DOGE was behind the firing of mental health professionals in the Department of Veterans’ Affairs and at the Arizona Rural Development Office, and terminated the leases of the National Parks Service offices. The Trump administration’s cuts have also resulted in layoffs, longer wait times, and frequent website outages at the Social Security Administration. There were more than 227,000 Arizonans who relied on Social Security benefits and roughly 15,000 federal workers in Ciscomani’s district.
Ciscomani has steadfastly defended Trump, even saying that “people need to trust Trump with these decisions” and that he trusted Trump’s judgement on tariffs. He has done this even though he later admitted that consumers would end up bearing the cost of the tariffs and they would be “very detrimental to Arizona” in the long-term. The tariffs have threatened agricultural producers in Arizona and alarmed small businesses in Tucson.
In 2006, Ciscomani attended the far-right Christian, the Patriot Academy. He continued to be involved with the academy for 15 years, including serving on its board and the board of the group, Torch of Freedom, that ran it. He even helped bring the Patriot Academy to Arizona. In 2010, he wrote a blog where he said he could “wholeheartedly say that nothing in my life has given me a clearer direction for my life than Patriot Academy.” The Patriot Academy was a far-right group that sought to train people to “understand and influence government policy with a biblical worldview.” It espoused extreme anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-abortion views.
Ciscomani Repeatedly Supported Efforts To Cut Medicaid And Threaten Arizonans’ Access To Health Care
Ciscomani Backed DOGE Despite Its Impacts To Federal Workers, Social Security, And Veterans’ Care
Ciscomani Supported Trump's Tariffs
Ciscomani Was On The Board Of The Patriot Academy