In response to Senate Republicans passing their devastating budget, DNC Chair Ken Martin released the following statement: 

“Donald Trump and Senate Republicans have sent a clear message to the American people: Your kids, your job, and your elderly relatives don’t matter. This is one of the worst bills in the history of Congress. It’s a massive scheme to steal from working folks, struggling families, and hell, even from nursing homes — all to enrich the already rich with a tax giveaway. The families who will be devastated by this billionaire budget scam aren’t just numbers, they are constituents that Republicans promised to represent — 17 million Americans who will lose their health care and more than 5 million Americans who will be at risk of losing their food assistance. I know firsthand how devastating this will be, because I grew up in a family that only made it because of these lifelines. Billionaires don’t need more help, working families do. Democrats will stand shoulder to shoulder with working families to kick these Republicans out of their seats in 2026.” 

NEW: Senate Republicans passed Trump’s disastrous billionaire-first budget to make his tax scam permanent, fund another round of tax breaks for the ultra-wealthy on the backs of working families, and explode the deficit. 

Senate Cloakroom: “Passed, 51-50 with @VP voting in the affirmative: Passage of Cal. #107, H.R.1, One Big Beautiful Bill Act, as amended.”

Axios: “The draft legislation would extend the cuts in the 2017 tax bill, and it adds on some more breaks.”

USA Today: “Low-income families would lose, wealthier ones would gain under GOP tax proposals” 

Sahil Kapur, NBC News: “New CBO score: Senate bill adds $3.25 trillion to the US national debt relative to current law.”  

Here are the worst impacts of Trump’s billionaire-first budget: 

• This bill cuts $1.3 trillion in food assistance and health coverage while giving the wealthy that exact amount in tax breaks 
• Rips away health care from 17 million Americans through over $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid, Medicare, and the Affordable Care Act — including the largest cut to Medicaid in American history 
• Puts over 300 rural hospitals at risk of shutting down, ripping away critical, lifesaving care from hundreds of rural communities across the country  
• Puts roughly 5 million Americans — about 1 in 8 SNAP participants — at risk of losing food assistance
• Adds $3.25 trillion to the national debt, while revenues fall by $4.47 trillion 
• Forces 1 in 4 nursing homes to close their doors 
• Puts 1.75 million construction jobs at risk — with unions warning, “this stands to be the biggest job-killing bill in the history of the country”
• Puts 2 million clean energy jobs at risk 
• Increases energy bills by hundreds of dollars across the country 
• Endangers our communities by making it easier to buy dangerous firearms and silencers 

Americans overwhelmingly reject Trump’s billionaire-first budget — as opposition grows the more folks learn about the bill. 

• Americans oppose Trump’s budget 2 to 1 — and opposition grows to 7 to 1 when people hear about the bill’s drastic cuts 
• Republicans oppose their own party’s budget 3 to 1 when they learn about the bill’s impacts 
• 64% of Americans hold an unfavorable opinion of the GOP’s tax and budget bill, including 34% of Republicans 
• After being told that the bill would decrease funding for local hospitals, favorability of the bill falls to 21% while unfavorability rises to 79%
• 3 in 4 Americans view Medicaid favorably, including 71% of independents and 64% of Republicans 

To line the pockets of their billionaire backers, Republicans voted to pass the largest cuts to Medicaid in history and rip away health care from 17 million Americans… 

Jesse Ferguson: “The GOP budget is the largest cut to Medicaid in history.

“🚨Latest version: $930 Billion (NEW CBO)”

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: “Senate Republican leaders are tinkering with the bill to try to secure votes, but their changes won’t alter the bottom line: this bill would cause serious harm. It would increase poverty, hunger, and preventable deaths. This agenda would cause about 16 million more people to be uninsured and make health care unaffordable for millions more.”

American Health Care Association: “More than half of nursing homes would be forced to cut staff, and more than one-quarter would have to close their doors”

West Virginia Watch: “Medicaid cuts could hurt older adults who rely on home care, nursing homes” 

Georgetown University Center for Children and Families: “Cuts to Medicaid Will Shift Costs to Families, Providers and Will Be Especially Harmful to Rural Communities”

WRAL News: “UNC data finds ‘One Big Beautiful Bill Act’ puts 300-plus rural hospitals at risk of closure”  

… slash food assistance for over 5 million Americans…  

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: “More than 5 million people — about 1 in 8 SNAP participants — live in households that would be at risk of losing at least some of their food assistance under the proposal to cut off eligibility for people who don’t meet a red-tape-laden, ineffective work requirement. … 

“Those at risk include about 800,000 children and more than half a million adults aged 65 or older and adults with disabilities.” 

… and put millions of good-paying jobs at risk. 

North America’s Building Trades Unions: “If enacted, this stands to be the biggest job-killing bill in the history of this country. … threatening an estimated 1.75 million construction jobs and over 3 billion work hours, which translates to $148 billion in lost annual wages and benefits.”

Bluegreen Alliance: “The U.S. Senate Finance Committee released its proposed text for the Congressional budget bill … If the budget bill passes as is, it puts 2 million jobs within the country’s burgeoning clean energy manufacturing footprint at risk.”

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