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COMING SOON!¶ How To Win Against Ryan Zinke
Zinke talks like a Montana independent, but he votes like a big city swamp creature: backing bills that kick thousands of Montanans off their health coverage, siding with tariffs that raise costs and hurt Montana farmers, and standing by while services seniors rely on are threatened. He already left one DC job in scandal; Montanans can’t afford to be burned twice.
¶ ZINKE HAS REPEATEDLY ATTACKED AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE
- Zinke voted for a bill that would kick 17 million Americans off their health insurance, including nearly 12 million Americans off of Medicaid. An estimated 27,000 Montanans in his district could lose their health coverage as a result of his vote, and he put rural hospitals at risk. Logan Health in Cutbank, the Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Polson, and Big Sky Medical Center were identified as at-risk medical centers as a result of Zinke’s vote.
- Zinke has also twice cosponsored legislation that would completely repeal the Inflation Reduction Act, which lowered prescription drug costs and put a $35/month cap on insulin costs for seniors. Approximately 24,000 Montanans took prescription drugs that were selected for price negotiation under the Inflation Reduction Act’s provisions.
Message: Big Pharma ally Zinke voted to take health coverage from hard-working Montanans all to give tax breaks to billionaires.
¶ zinke voted for massive cuts to medicare
- Zinke voted for a bill that the Congressional Budget Office estimated would trigger nearly $500 billion in cuts to Medicare absent future congressional action.
Message: Zinke voted to make massive cuts to health care services seniors rely on all to give tax breaks to billionaires.
¶ ZINKE ABANDONED MONTANA AND SAID THE TRADE WAR “HAD TO HAPPEN”
- Zinke defended Trump’s tariffs and claimed, “the tariff war, it had to happen” despite acknowledging they would hit Montana harder than many states. He voted four times to protect the tariffs, including in April 2025 when he was the deciding vote to protect them, dooming Montanans who relied on him to a trade war and rising prices.
- Tariffs are contributing to higher food prices and hurting Montana farmers. Zinke even admitted that tariffs cause “some degree of inflation.”
Message: Zinke, who admitted tariffs cause inflation, said higher food prices and harm caused to Montana farmers “had to happen.”
¶ ZINKE SUPPORTED ATTACKS ON SOCIAL SECURITY MONTANA SENIORS RELY ON
- Zinke said he liked what Trump’s DOGE was doing as DOGE-driven cuts and downsizing were affecting the federal government’s ability to deliver services to seniors. More than 133,000 Montanans in Zinke’s district relied on Social Security benefits. Zinke has stood by while Social Security was threatened before. When he was first elected to congress he dismissed concerns about Republican proposals to cut Social Security and Medicare.
- Zinke said he liked DOGE even though it resulted in the mass layoffs of Montana workers that threatened rural economies.
Message: Social Security is a promise, not a bargaining chip. Montanans' livelihoods aren’t pawns in a political game. Montanans can’t be collateral damage in Zinke’s partisan political games.
¶ It took zinke 11 months to vote to release the epstein files and he did only after trump gave republicans permission.
- In November 2025, after 11 months, Zinke finally voted to release the Epstein files, but only after Donald Trump gave House Republicans permission to do so. Previously, Zinke had cast the deciding vote against releasing the Epstein files, protecting the accused pedophiles named within them. He even said he believed there was no secret Epstein list or volume of information that would indict anyone. Zinke never signed the discharge petition that called for their release and he never co-sponsored Reps. Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna’s resolution calling for their release.
Message: It took Zinke, who claimed there was no secret Epstein list, 11 months to vote to release the Epstein Files.
¶ ETHICS DISASTER RYAN ZINKE
Ryan Zinke resigned from his post as Interior Secretary amid multiple ethics scandals.
- The Interior Department Inspector General found that Zinke misused his position as Interior Secretary to advance a development project in his hometown in Montana and failed to disclose the details of his involvement to ethics officials when questioned.
- The Interior Department Inspector General found, as Interior Secretary, Zinke lied to investigators about conversations he had with lobbyists, lawmakers, and other officials regarding a bid by two Indian tribes to operate a casino in Connecticut.
- The Interior Department Inspector General found Zinke violated government rules by allowing his wife to travel with him in government vehicles and for considering making her a volunteer so she could travel for free.
- Zinke came under scrutiny for planning to spend $139,000 to replace doors in his Interior Secretary office suite. After being confronted about the cost, Zinke claimed he had reduced it by half.
Message: Zinke didn't think the rules applied to him. Montanans deserve an honest straight-shooter, not another DC swamp creature wasting their money.
Hospitals At Risk In MT-01
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¶ Ryan Zinke's Policies Hurt Everyday Montanans
Zinke's Repeated Attacks On Montanans' Health Care
Zinke Voted For Massive Cuts To Medicare
Zinke Defended Trump's Tariffs Despite Admitted They Caused Inflation
Zinke Defended Attacks On Social Security And Montana Workers
¶ Ryan Zinke Used His Power To Benefit Himself And The Powerful
It Took Zinke 11 Months To Vote To Release The Epstein Files
Zinke Resigned From the Department Of The Interior Amid Ethics Scandals
Zinke Had Questionable Montana Ties
Zinke's Key Votes In Congress