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 Today, Congresswoman Suzan DelBene (WA-01) released the following statement after the House passed the Republican budget legislation.

“Today, Washington families lost at the expense of the wealthy and well-connected in the Republican budget bill. This legislation is a betrayal of Republicans’ promise to lower costs for everyday families. It will rip health coverage away from millions of families while increasing groceries, utilities, and health care bills. This massive tax break for the ultra-rich and big corporations will increase the nation’s debt that future generations will have to shoulder. The bill is nothing more than one big broken promise.

“Republicans made every effort to conceal what’s really in this legislation by holding hearings in the middle of the night because they know this bill will harm their constituents. My Democratic colleagues and I have been fighting against the many harms in this legislation at every turn and will continue to stand up for our communities.”

You can watch DelBene’s remarks on the House floor here.

Impacts of Legislation

• Medicaid and ACA Coverage: Nearly 14 million Americans would lose Medicaid and Affordable Care Act marketplace health coverage, including 274,000 Washingtonians.
• Medicare: Triggers $535 billion in automatic Medicare cuts due to the huge expense of the bill.
• Abortion: Prohibits funding for abortions on ACA health marketplaces, including state-based exchanges like the Washington Health Benefits Exchange.
• Food Assistance: $300 billion would be cut from food assistance programs, like the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which covers over 880,000 Washingtonians.
• Energy Bills: Increases energy bills by more than $110 per year on average by repealing cost-saving clean energy tax credits.
• Cost: Estimated to cost $5 trillion.
• Disparity in Benefits: The bottom 10% of Americans would see household resources reduced by 4% while the top 10% would see a 2% increase, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.
• Handout to the Wealthy: The average family earning less than $50,000 would get under $300 (less than $1 a day) while the average tax filer earning $1 million or more would receive about $90,000 in tax breaks in 2027.

The bill now heads to the Senate.