Peter Welch: “never in my time in Congress have I seen a bill that does so much damage in so many ways to so many people in so many…”

“never in my time in Congress have I seen a bill that does so much damage in so many ways to so many people in so many States and that will affect so many generations. The clerks have read the bill. It is now time for us to kill the bill. The point of reading the bill was to reveal that this bill has one goal, and that is to extend tax cuts to very wealthy Americans-- where the top 1 percent will get 60 percent of the benefit--and to make everyday Americans pay the price to fund those tax cuts. It is no wonder, right now, that two in three Americans oppose this bill. The question is, Will the U.S. Senate oppose this bill? Here are just a few ways that the President's so-called One Big Beautiful Bill will hurt Vermont. In Vermont, 11,500 people will lose their healthcare coverage under ObamaCare, or the Affordable Care Act. Twenty-one thousand Vermonters will lose Medicaid coverage and food nutrition programs that are so essential to the well-being of your citizens and mine. In Vermont, on the SNAP Program, 11 percent of our households use it, 65,000 people. A little over a third of households rely on the SNAP program, and they have kids. Nearly 3,000 veterans in Vermont rely on the SNAP program. By the way, we are talking about 6 bucks a day. Billions are going to be cut across the country. That is going to hurt Vermont, and it is going to hurt everyone.”