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U.S. Rep. Andrew Clyde, R-GA, has introduced the Medicaid Funds Integrity Act that is designed to prohibit the Biden administration from using Medicaid funds for “gun violence prevention” projects. This is in response to announcements from the Biden-Harris Administration in September about a new executive orders directing federal agencies to advance its anti-gun agenda.

Among other measures, the Administration stated the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will allow states to use Medicaid to pay for counseling on “firearm safety.”

Several liberal states, including California, Connecticut, and New York, have passed legislation allowing Medicaid to reimburse such services, Clyde said.

“Americans’ hard-earned tax dollars have no place furthering the Left’s unconstitutional gun control agenda,” said Clyde. “Rather than supporting law enforcement and empowering lawful gun owners, liberal states are determined to divert federal Medicaid dollars to fund false ‘violence prevention’ programs. As responsible stewards of taxpayer dollars and relentless defenders of the Constitution, Congress must step in to stop this flagrant misuse of federal funds aimed at infringing law-abiding Americans’ Second Amendment liberties.”

Gun Owners of America (GOA) and the National Association for Gun Rights (NAGR) are both supporting the measure.

“Gun Owners of America is proud to support Rep. Clyde’s efforts with this legislation. Programs like this are bound to be weaponized by anti-gun administrations, which is exactly what we saw over the last four years. Gun control has nothing to do with healthcare,” said Aidan Johnston, the Director of Federal Affairs for Gun Owners of America.

“Allowing federal funds to support gun violence prevention programs under Medicaid is a gross misuse of taxpayer dollars, aimed at advancing radical gun control agendas. Medicaid’s purpose is to provide vital healthcare, not to fund programs that infringe on Second Amendment rights. Federal resources should be focused on their intended mission, not diverted to backdoor attempts at restricting lawful gun ownership,” said Hunter King, Director of Government Relations for National Association for Gun Rights.