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Trump’s big spending bill heads to final vote in US House
Democratic Minority Leader of the House Hakeem Jeffries has been speaking on the House floor for more than an hour, outlining opposition to the budget bill. Let’s take a quick look now at his party’s view on the legislation.
Democrats, who have neither a majority in the House nor Senate, have strongly criticised the bill, particularly on changes to social programmes like Medicaid and food stamps.
The Congressional Budget Office estimates that nearly 12 million Americans could lose their health coverage by the end of the next decade as a result of the proposed changes.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries called the bill a “reckless, regressive and reprehensible GOP tax scam” and pledged to use the bill against Republicans in next year’s Midterm elections.
In the Senate, Democratic Minority Leader Chuck Schumer forced a name change of the bill so it can be no longer officially called the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
“This is not a ‘big, beautiful bill’ at all,” Schumer said afterwards. “It is really the ‘big ugly betrayal,’ and the American people know it.”
Source: bbc.com
