Rep. Judy Chu Votes No on Trump and Republicans’ Disastrous Health Care Cuts and Tax Giveaway

WASHINGTON, D.C. – After an overnight debate that Republicans sought to hide from the American public, the House of Representatives voted 215-214-1 to advance H.R. 1, the One Big Ugly Bill. Rep. Judy Chu (CA-28), a member of both the Ways and Means Committee and Budget Committee, voted no on this bill and issued the following statement: 

“This is a shameful and cruel bill that House Republicans have spent the last week desperately trying to hide from the American people through midnight markups and votes. 

“They could not bring this bill up in the light of day because they know it will kick 14 million Americans off of Medicaid and ACA health plans; effectively end abortion coverage on ACA marketplace plans; threaten the SNAP food assistance of nearly 11 million people; reduce or eliminate Pell Grants for more than 4 million students; and take away the Child Tax Credit from millions of American children simply because one of their parents is not a citizen,” said Rep. Chu. 

“They know it will add as much as $5 trillion to the federal debt over the next ten years, an amount so high that the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has confirmed it would lead to nearly $500 billion in automatic cuts to Medicare benefits. And by gutting the energy tax credits that Democrats created under the Inflation Reduction Act, it will immediately raise families’ energy prices and crush American manufacturing. 

“And this bill wreaks all of this havoc for one reason: to give massive, permanent tax cuts to the ultra-wealthy. This is a reverse robin hood scheme that the CBO found is so unfair that it would actually make the poorest 10% of Americans even poorer while making the richest 10% even richer. So while Donald Trump and his billionaire donors will stuff their wallets, it’s my constituents who will be stuck paying the bill.”