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Did Jon Husted help create the Rural Health Transformation Fund?

Matches stated record claim. He backed the $10 billion-a-year fund's law. Hospital chiefs thanked him and Moreno for funding work without naming this fund; his role in its negotiations is unestablished.

Jon Husted

Rural hospitals: the Rural Health Transformation Fund

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What they say

His office says he fought to support the creation of the Rural Health Transformation Fund.

“which is why I fought to support the creation of this fund”

What the record shows ·

Section 71401 of Public Law 119-21 created the Rural Health Transformation Program and appropriated $10,000,000,000 a year for fiscal years 2026 through 2030 for allotments to states. He voted Yea on the law's Senate passage (Roll Call 372). On July 2, 2025, the chief executives of four rural Ohio health systems wrote to him and Senator Bernie Moreno thanking them for "tireless work behind the scenes" to direct funding to Ohio's rural hospitals; the letter does not name the fund. After the law was enacted, his office says, he led a letter from Ohio's congressional delegation on December 19, 2025 supporting the state's application to the fund.

Limit: He voted for the law that created the fund, which is one section of it. The hospital chiefs' letter thanks him for work on rural hospital funding but does not name the fund. The delegation letter came after the fund existed. What he did in the talks, which "fought" describes, is not something a roll call records.

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  1. Husted, Dr. Oz visit Ohio rural hospital to discuss health carehttps://www.husted.senate.gov/media/press-releases/husted-dr-oz-visit-ohio-rural-hospital-to-discuss-health-care/

    Office of Senator Jon Husted · Published May 26, 2026 · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Released by his Senate office. Claims are the office's own and are attributed, not independently verified. Says he led a letter from Ohio's congressional delegation on December 19, 2025 supporting Ohio's application to the fund.

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  2. Public Law 119-21 (H.R. 1, 119th Congress)https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/PLAW-119publ21

    U.S. Government Publishing Office · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Approved July 4, 2025. The act has no short title. Sections used: 70104 (child tax credit to $2,200), 70201 and 70202 (deductions for qualified tips, capped at $25,000, and qualified overtime, capped at $12,500 or $25,000 on a joint return, both reduced above $150,000 of modified adjusted gross income ($300,000 on a joint return) and ending after 2028), 70402 (up to $5,000 of the adoption credit refundable) and 71401 (Rural Health Transformation Program, $10,000,000,000 a year for fiscal years 2026 to 2030).

    official legislative record

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  3. Senate Roll Call 372 (119th Congress), H.R. 1, on passage as amendedhttps://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/CREC-2025-06-30

    Congressional Record, U.S. Government Publishing Office · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Yeas 50, nays 50, with the Vice President presiding and casting the deciding vote; the bill passed. The Record prints this sitting under June 30, 2025; it ran into July 1. Read from the Record's printed roll call; the name blocks, block headers and announced tally all agree.

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  4. Letter from four rural Ohio health-system chief executives to Senators Moreno and Hustedhttps://www.moreno.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/rural-hospital-letter-OBBB.jpeg

    Office of Senator Bernie Moreno · Published Jul 2, 2025 · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    An image of the letter dated July 2, 2025, posted by Senator Moreno's office and linked from Husted's release of the same day; signed by the chief executives of Memorial Health System, Genesis Health System, Adena Health System and Southern Ohio Medical Center. It thanks the two senators for work "to secure these outcomes" for rural hospitals and does not name the Rural Health Transformation Program. Retrieved September 23, 2026, sha256 3663a61de7adc86e948235ed41fb6cdc63af642bf290416cc99eb676e78bf317. An image cannot be text-checked by script; its wording is checked through Husted's release, which quotes it.

    official office record

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  5. Ohio rural health systems thank Husted, Moreno for "tireless work" securing billions in new fundinghttps://www.husted.senate.gov/media/press-releases/ohio-rural-health-systems-thank-husted-moreno-for-tireless-work-securing-billions-in-new-funding/

    Office of Senator Jon Husted · Published Jul 2, 2025 · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Released by his Senate office. Claims are the office's own and are attributed, not independently verified. Relays and quotes a letter from rural Ohio health-system chief executives to him and Senator Bernie Moreno.

    candidate statement

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