One Year into the Big Ugly Bill
One Year Later, Trump’s Big Ugly Bill Is Making America Unaffordable, Uninhabitable, and Ugly . . . Brief one with a few words and a bunch of numbers depicting where we are as Tr__P and his merry band of sycophants’ mess with the economy. Not one will step forward and call him out as to what he is doing (hurting the constituency) with his Big Ugly Bill.
DAA-Big-Ugly-Bill-Anniversary-Report-July-2026.pdf
One year ago, Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans passed their Big Ugly Bill, promising it would make America affordable again. That was a lie. Instead, Trump ripped health coverage from millions of Americans, kicked millions of people off food assistance, drove up energy bills, and killed hundreds of thousands of clean energy jobs. Republicans sacrificed the American people’s financial future, health care, and food security to pay for massive tax breaks for big corporations and the ultra-wealthy. The richest people on the planet got a handout, and working families got the bill.
If you find anything positive in this Tr__p plan, please let me know. That would be other than tax breaks for the upper 10% in income.
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Localized impacts of the Big Bad Blame the Victim Bill:
San Jose Mercury News:
“That means the 242,697 Medicaid beneficiaries in Alameda County could be affected by the bill. Across California, between 2.3 million and 3.5 million Californians are at risk of losing coverage, or between 19% to 29% of Medi-Cal enrollees, according to the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities.”
Also from the Mercury:
“In 2020, voters approved Measure W, a general sales tax, to raise approximately $170 million per year for housing and homelessness services. Given the breadth of state and federal cuts to safety net services, the Board of Supervisors chose to use 20% of Measure W’s funds ($34 million) to support the county’s safety net, predominantly for food assistance and senior services.”
California is forced into triage for low income household services, because the GOP insisted on deeper tax cuts for wealthy individuals and corporations. These same decisions are being forced on states and municipalities around the country. The CBO counts 5 million people who have lost medical insurance already, with a work requirement rule going into effect next year the pace of insurance loss will only accelerate, leading to sicker Americans and greater mortality. Many of those able to hang onto an insurance plan will pay higher premiums, worsening affordability pressures too many of us already face.