Senator Dan Sullivan’s support for President Trump’s Working Family Tax Cuts is delivering big wins for Alaska in 2026. Sullivan secured the largest investment in Alaska’s healthcare system in history, hundreds of millions in funding for new military construction, and is unlocking Alaska’s unique natural resources after Joe Biden shut Alaska down. Read more below.
Frontiersman: “This is transformative.” Alaska awarded $272M to address healthcare
On December 29, the State of Alaska received word that it had been awarded $272 million award from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to strengthen Alaska’s health care system, the first of five annual awards for Alaska under the five-year RHTP. It was the second-highest amount awarded, with only Texas receiving more funding.
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“This is the biggest investment in rural health care in American history, and certainly the largest investment in Alaska’s health care system from the federal government in our state’s history,” said Sen. Sullivan.
Alaska Beacon: Military spending bill includes free flights for Alaska soldiers and a push to reopen Adak
The new $900 billion military spending law signed by President Donald Trump last week includes special benefits for soldiers and Coast Guardsmen in Alaska, hundreds of millions in new construction within the state, and a continued push to reactivate the U.S. Navy base at Adak.
Anchorage Daily News: Dan Sullivan: “The One Big Beautiful Bill is a ‘home run’ for Alaska.”
The bill is laden with the promise of new oil and gas lease sales in the Alaska Arctic and Cook Inlet; it funds new Coast Guard cutters and icebreakers that could be homeported in some of Alaska’s coastal communities; the state stands to gain disproportionately from a new rural health transformation program constituted in the bill; and Alaska was granted a reprieve from some of the bill’s sharpest cuts to social services.
“To me, no state in the country did better than we did in this bill. And by the way, that is common knowledge by Democrats and Republicans back in the Senate,” Sullivan said in a recent interview. “We really cleaned up.”
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Sullivan called the ad’s message “a total lie” that uses “scare tactics” — Alaska Native people were exempted from new Medicaid work requirements, and Alaska does not use provider taxes, a method nixed in the bill that has been used by all other states to subsidize their Medicaid programs.
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“If this bill were split into 10 different bills, each one of these would be very important for Alaska,” Sullivan said in his presentation to the Anchorage Chamber of Commerce. “I think this is going to turn out to be one of the most important pieces of legislation for our state in a very long time.”
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