If the federal budget is our nation’s guiding document of what and who we care about, then Congressional Republicans just decided working Americans are somewhere between an afterthought and expendable.
Under the plastic veneer of Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill,” this recently passed budget bill is big and bad for blue states and even worse for red ones, which rely much more on federal assistance.
Via nearly 1,000 pages of intentionally long-winded and complicated bill text, the GOP agreed to:
- Cut millions of children, seniors, and families off from Medicaid, many other forms of healthcare coverage, and essential food assistance
- Make energy more expensive and less reliable
- Force hundreds of thousands of workers out of jobs in booming industries like clean energy and manufacturing
- Eliminate investments in clean energy, clean transportation, and manufacturing, which will stunt job growth and hamper American industries’ global competitiveness
- Make the already high cost of education even more expensive
- Increase the national deficit by an estimated $3.3 trillion over the next decade.