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Verify that the Working Families Tax Cuts legislation (or implementing actions under it) authorizes or directs specific investments/resources to states for rural health care, and identify the statutory or administrative mechanism and amounts.
Public Law 119-21 (the FY2025 reconciliation law), branded by the administration and CMS as the "Working Families Tax Cuts" or "One Big Beautiful Bill" Act, includes Section 71401 establishing the Rural Health Transformation (RHT) Program, a $50 billion fund dedicated to rural health. CMS’s official RHT Program materials state that this program was authorized by Section 71401 of Public Law 119-21 and is designed to empower states to improve rural health care access, quality, and outcomes, with $10 billion per year from FY2026–2030 allocated to states. A CMS press release further explains that all 50 states are receiving awards under the Rural Health Transformation Program, describing it as a $50 billion initiative "established under President Trump’s Working Families Tax Cuts legislation" to strengthen and modernize rural health care in communities across the country. Medicaid.gov’s Working Families Tax Cut legislation page explicitly links Public Law 119-21 to the Rural Health Transformation Program and positions it as a resource hub for states implementing these provisions. Together, these primary sources show that the Working Families Tax Cuts legislation does in fact direct substantial investments and resources to states specifically to strengthen rural health care access. The verdict is True because federal law and implementing agency documents clearly show that the Working Families Tax Cuts legislation created and funded a rural health program that allocates tens of billions of dollars to states to improve rural health care access.