{"id":7296,"date":"2025-07-07T19:51:57","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T19:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africanamericanvoice.net\/?p=7296"},"modified":"2025-09-07T19:58:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T19:58:16","slug":"house-republicans-ram-through-brutal-cuts-17-million-to-lose-health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africanamericanvoice.net\/?p=7296","title":{"rendered":"House Republicans Ram Through Brutal Cuts: 17 Million to Lose Health Care"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Stacy M. Brown<\/a><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

Despite the major affect it\u2019ll have on working families, House Republicans on Wednesday bulldozed through President Donald Trump\u2019s massive \u201cOne Big Beautiful Bill\u201d \u2014 a sweeping law that rips health care away from 17 million Americans, guts food assistance, and drains public resources to shower billionaires and corporations with massive tax giveaways.<\/p>\n

The massive legislative package, called by Democrats the \u201cBig Ugly Bill,\u201d passed mainly along party lines with only two Republicans joining Democrats in opposition, and targets Medicaid, the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and the Children\u2019s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), slashing nearly $1 trillion over the next decade by tightening eligibility and curbing enrollment.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday\u2019s passage of Trump and Republicans\u2019 so-called \u2018Big Beautiful Bill\u2019 is nothing short of devastating for everyday, working-class people who will have to live with its consequences while billionaires and corporate profiteers are handed tax breaks,\u201d said Rep. Summer Lee of Pennsylvania. \u201cThere is nothing beautiful about telling a grandmother she\u2019ll be forced out of her nursing home because she is one of 17 million people losing health care.\u201d<\/p>\n

The bill axes more than $200 billion in nutrition assistance, threatening SNAP benefits for millions of low-income families. Democrats and independent analysts warn the cuts will force parents to skip meals to keep their children fed, squeeze seniors already struggling to pay for rent and medicine, and push college students out of higher education.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is absolutely nothing beautiful about a child having worse asthma attacks or our neighborhoods flooding or thousands of people losing their jobs because this bill reverses investments in clean energy,\u201d Lee continued. \u201cThis is a deliberate choice to strip dignity from our seniors and to push children and parents deeper into poverty and hunger.\u201d<\/p>\n

The legislation also nearly halves funding for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a move advocates say will open the floodgates for predatory lenders to exploit working families.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor many people who live paycheck to paycheck, this will be a financially devastating law,\u201d said Center for Responsible Lending<\/a> President Mike Calhoun. \u201cThis act of Congress will take critical resources away from people with the least wealth, making it more likely they will go bankrupt. Alongside steep cuts to health insurance coverage and food assistance, it will nearly halve available funds for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, making it easier for predatory financial firms to cheat people out of their money. At the earliest opportunity, federal lawmakers should repeal this legislation to halt this approaching catastrophe.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)<\/a> condemned the bill as a \u201creckless and dangerous\u201d attack on the nation\u2019s most vulnerable.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is disheartening that elected officials in Congress rushed to approve a sprawling budget exceeding 900 pages without transparency and with little consideration for our country\u2019s most vulnerable populations \u2014 seniors, children, and low-income families,\u201d said SPLC President and CEO Margaret Huang. \u201cIt is unconscionable to see elected officials celebrate a budget that strips people of essential health care, takes food from hungry families, and inflicts unnecessary suffering to enrich millionaires.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the same time, Trump\u2019s allies advanced the deep cuts, the president\u2019s administration has racked up at least $72 million to $92 million in taxpayer costs tied to personal indulgences and political spectacles. The Army\u2019s 250th Anniversary Parade \u2014 staged on Trump\u2019s 79th birthday \u2014 cost as much as $45 million, plus $16 million in road repairs. Frequent golf trips to Trump-branded properties have drained taxpayers of more than $30 million in just six months, not counting millions more in Secret Service expenses and logistics.<\/p>\n

David Kass, executive director of Americans for Tax Fairness<\/a>, called the bill a windfall for the wealthiest Americans.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday, Congressional Republicans and the Trump administration have finally achieved their craven goal of delivering massive tax giveaways to the billionaires and wealthy corporations that fund their campaigns at the cost of average Americans,\u201d Kass said. \u201cThis bill represents a massive transfer of wealth from the working class to the top 1%. It enacts the largest Medicaid and SNAP cuts in history while adding over $3 trillion to the national debt. Furthermore, it makes the tax code more complex with new special interest tax breaks and handouts to the ultra-wealthy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kass also advised about next steps to push back against the Trump administration\u2019s policies.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the coming years, Democrats must prioritize repealing and replacing these disastrous policies to protect American families from rising costs and loss of health care coverage,\u201d Kass said. \u201cWe need to create a truly fair tax system and an economy that works for all Americans, not just the wealthy few.\u201d<\/p>\n

Source: Published without changes from Washington Informer Newspaper<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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