Shelley Feist, 61, from Washington, DC, who grew up in North Dakota, protests on Wednesday, July 2, 2025, outside the US Capitol, while the Republicans try to pass the “big beautiful bill”. Feist said she was concerned about the effects on rural hospitals as a result of Medicaid, because her parents rely on rural health care in Minot, North Dakota in the 80s. (Photo by Ashley Murray/States Newsroom)
Washington demonstrators demonstrated on Wednesday against the “big beautiful calculation” outside of the US Capitol, when the Republicans of the Republicans increased the voices to bring the legislation of the finish line, and the desk of President Donald Trump by a self-imposed period of fourth July.
Shelley Feist stood on the Independence Avenue near the entrance to the House of Representatives, which held over her head, and a reading “cruel corrupt coward”, the other a Republican elephant with the word “betrayal” that was written on it.
“I think they are cruel. I think cruelty is the point,” said Feist, 61, from Washington, DC, and originally come from North Dakota, States Newsroom. “It is also extremely alarming that such cowardice contains in the GOP.”
The massive budget reconciliation package, passed Of the Republicans of the Senate on Tuesday with a draw by Vice President JD Vance expanded and expanded the tax cuts from 2017 at a price of around $ 4.5 trillion in the next decade. It also focuses on the financing of Federal Food and Health Safety Net programs.
The invoice rolls aggressively with pristine energy tax creditors and increases the country’s credit limit to 5 trillion US dollars.
Last Pay From the referee congress budget office, which increases the nation’s package in the next decade by $ 3.4 trillion if the country is in record-breaking debts. The office is earlier analysis Stated by the bill in the house, which the package would reduce resources for families with low incomes and at the same time padded higher earners.
MP Virginia Foxx from North Carolina, who led an hour -long hearing of the final committee over the law overnight, said on Wednesday that the package was a “embodiment of the first agenda of the America First Agenda, and we would all remember it well.
Medicaid cuts
The leader for Feist is the cuts of the law against Medicaid, the health insurance program for states for people with low income and some with disabilities. The Senate version of the package, which was passed on Tuesday, contained A $ 1 trillion cut after 10 years according to the CBO.
“I have parents in North Dakota, who are 85 and 86 years old. You already have difficulty seeing your doctor. For every doctor who leaves, he takes 14 times more stress on. The rural health care is already extremely difficult. I would expect no hospital to be nearby where my parents live when this law is announced”, whose parents live near minot.
Rural hospitals rely on Medicaid payments. In A Last-minute movement Before the vote on Tuesday, the Republicans of the Senate doubled a fund to 50 billion US dollars to subsidize hospitals that lose funds. Critics say that the crowd is not enough to close the gap.
Gop Sens. Susan Collins from Maine and Thom Tillis from North Carolina were not right after they had expressed concerns about Medicaid’s cuts.
The 60 -year -old Nadine Seiler from Waldorf, Maryland, was close to a press conference of the Hispanic Conference Congressional Conference. Seiler held a enormous spray leaf over her head with a message on each side: “Free America by Big Bad Bill” and “Soon Freedom Freedom only in the name”.
“I am worried about my fellow citizens who will lose medicaid, food brands, human health services. People will die,” said Seiler.
“And I know that Joni says Ernst that we will all die, but we will die faster and unnecessarily, and I’m interested.”
Seiler referred to Sen. Ernst’s Response To their IOWA voters, who were concerned about Medicaid’s cuts in a town hall on May 30th.
Snap and ice
Mark Starr sang a protest song that he wrote about the “big beautiful bill” when he played the guitar and harmonica in front of the Longworth House Office office on Wednesday.
The 39-year-old Albuquerque, New Mexico, came to the status newsroom that he drove to the capital at the end of April to protest the law. He said that he had focused particularly on additional funds for immigration and the customs authority contained in the package, as well as cuts of the supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP, which offers food advantages for households with low income.
“New Mexico is pretty poor, and if these cuts can get hungry in New Mexico,” said Starr. “It will only really mess us up, and we are just one of the many countries that will be affected in this way.”
New Mexico has one of the highest poverty rates in the nation.
A provision in the legislation will shift the costs for food aid for the first time in the history of the federal program to the governments of the country. Critics fear that states could tighten the authorization requirements due to the financial burden or drop the program.
The left-wing center for household and political priorities Estimates 55,000 teenagers aged 14 and over, and adults up to the age of 64 could lose food aid in New Mexico, since the legislation have exemptions in state work requirements for the legislative requirements. Children would remain justified, but the households would be significantly reduced overall.
The CBO found At the end of May, the legal template that is relevant in the house would lead to over 3 million people all over the country losing food support.
Starr said he was also intended for additional funds for enforcing immigration.
“I think they have enough,” he said, pointing to Trump’s visit to one New detention center In Florida that the White House is advertised as “Alligator Alcatraz”.
The version approved by the Senate contains a further $ 45 billion for ice finding facilities and $ 29.9 billion for the enforcement and deportation of iron, below which is directed to the southern border.
Clean energy to take a hit
Tiernan Sittenfeld from the League of Conservation voters turned directly in front of the house with a group, which was T-shirts with the inscription “Hands out of the air, country and clean energy”.
Sittenfeld, the Senior Vice President of the organization’s government matters, argues that the roller backs of Clean Energy Tax Credits in the Senate version “kill Clean Energy Jobs”.
“It is bad for our economy. It is bad for jobs. It will increase people’s energy bills. And of course it is bad for the planet,” she said.
The Republicans of the Senate accelerated the expression of some residential, manufacturing and production loans faster than the house bill. A change at the last minute solved the schedule for some technical-neutral energy loans and, however, removed an additional tax for wind and solar projects.
Industry groups and energy companies tiny and enormous warned Early termination of the loans will have a major impact on growth.
The tax credits for solar, wind, batteries for energy storage and electric vehicles were issued, among other things, under the Budget Supply Act of Democrats 2022 as a “Inflation Redutation Act”.
Most of the investments in the production and production of modern energy in rural states and states that Trump chose to his second term project from the Rhodium Group and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research.
“Every Republican who votes for this legislation votes against the interest of his voters, votes for the killing of jobs in their district, votes for the killing of projects for clean energy and votes for the increase in the energy costs of their voters,” said Sittenfeld.
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