Shelley Feist, 61, from Washington, who grew up in northern Dakota, protests before the US Capitol on Wednesday, July 2, 2025, when House Republicans are trying to adopt a “large beautiful bill.” Feist said that she was worried about influence on rural hospitals as a result of Medicaid cuts, because her parents at the age of 80 depend on healthcare in rural areas in Minot, North Dakota. (Photo Ashley Murray/States Newsroom)
Washington-protesting demonstrated the “Great Beautiful Bill” before the US Capitol on Wednesday, when the Republicans of House whipped voices to get an invoice at the finish and desk of President Donald Trump imposed on the fourth date of July.
Shelley Feist stood on the Independence avenue near the entrance to the House of Representatives holding signs above his head, one reading “Cruel corrupt cowards”, the other Republican elephant with the inscription “Betrayal”.
“I think they are cruel. I think there is a sense of cruelty”, Feist, 61, from Washington, and from northern Dakota, said States Newsroom. “It is also very worrying that there is such cowardice in GOP.”
Huge budget reconciliation package, passed By the Senate, Republicans on Tuesday, voting for a draw of vice president JD Vance, expands and expands tax reductions in 2017 at the cost of about USD 4.5 trillion over the next decade. He practices funds from federal net food and health safety programs.
The Act will aggressively withdraw tax breaks from pure energy, and also increases the loan limit of the country to $ 5 trillion.
Latest Figures From an impartial congress budget office, it shows that the package would add $ 3.4 trillion the country’s deficit over the next decade, when the country is in record debt. This office is earlier analysis It was found from the home Act that the package would reduce resources for low -income families, while lining higher earnings.
Rep. Virginia Foxx from North Carolina, who presided over the end of the Committee on the trial of the act overnight, said Wednesday that the package is “the incarnation of the first program of America and everyone would remember well with it.”
Medicaid cuts
The most crucial for Feist are the cuts of an account for Medicaid, a health insurance program in a federal state for people with low income and some disabled. The senate version of the package, passed on Tuesday, contained 1 trillion dollars Medicaid for 10 years, according to CBO.
“I have parents in Northern Dakota who are 85 and 86 years old. They already have difficulty seeing their doctor. For every doctor who leaves, he takes 14 times greater burden. Healthcare in rural areas is already extremely difficult. I would expect that there will be no hospital nearby where my parents live, if the bill is signed in the act,” said Feist, whose parents live near Minot.
Rural hospitals rely on Medicaid payments. IN Movement at the last minute Before Tuesday’s vote, the Republicans doubled a fund to $ 50 billion to subsidize hospitals that will lose funds. Critics say that the amount is not enough to fill the gap.
GOP sense. Susan Collins from Maine and Thom Tillis from North Carolina voted not after expressing problems related to Medicaid cuts.
Nadine Seiler, 60, with Waldorf, Maryland, stood near the press conference of the Hispanic Congress Conference protesting against the Act. Seiler was holding a gigantic spray sheet with a message on each side: “Free America from Big Bad Bill” and “Freedom Freedom soon only by name.”
“I’m worried about my fellow citizens who will lose Medicaid, food vouchers, human health services. People will die,” said Seiler.
“And I know that Joni Ernst says that we will all die, but we will die faster and unnecessarily and take care of it.”
Seiler meant Senator Ernst’s answer Iowa, who expressed concern with Medicaid cuts in the town hall on May 30.
Snap and ice
Mark Starr sang a protest song, which he wrote about “Big Beautiful Bill” when he played the guitar and harmonica in front of the Longworth House office building on Wednesday.
39-year-old Albuquerque in Nowy Mexico told States Newsroom that he went to the capital at the end of April to protest against the act. He said that he is particularly focused on additional funds for immigration and enforcement of exact contained in the package, as well as on cutting the program of additional nutrition or snap, which provides food benefits to low -income households.
“New Mexico is quite poor, so if these cuts to Snap him, children can starve in New Mexico,” said Starr. “It’s just, it will really spoil us, and we are only one of many states that will be affected in this way.”
New Mexico has one of the highest poverty rates in the country.
The decision in the Act for the first time will change the costs of food assistance to state governments in the history of the federal program. Critics are afraid that countries may exacerbate the qualification requirements or abandon the program due to financial burden.
Lewic Budget Center and Political Priorities estimates 55,000 teenagers at the age of 14 and more, and adults up to 64 years vintage may lose food assistance in Nowy Mexico due to cuts of bills in the field of exemptions of work requirements. Children would remain qualifying, but households would generally observe significantly reduced dollars.
Cbo found At the end of May, the bill on the house will cause that over 3 million people throughout the country will lose their food assistance.
Starr said that he was also contrary to additional finances provided for in the enforcement of immigration law.
“I think they have enough,” he said, pointing to Trump’s visit to fresh detention facility In Florida, the White House advertises as “Aligator Alcatraz”.
The version approved by the Senate includes an additional 45 billion dollars for ice branches and $ 29.9 billion for the enforcement and deportation of ICE, among billions more focused on the southern border.
Pure energy to get on
Tiernan Sittenfeld from the Conservation Protection League, he crouched just behind the house with a group wearing T -shirts with the inscription “Hands from the air, earth and clean energy.”
Sittenfeld, senior vice president of the government organization, argues that the withdrawal of pure energy tax breaks in the Senate version “will kill work in pure energy”.
“It is harmful to our economy. It is harmful to work. It will raise the bills of people’s energy. And of course it is harmful to the planet,” she said.
Republicans of the Senate accelerated with the withdrawal of some residential, production and production loans at a faster pace than a home bill. The change at the last moment loosened the timeline of some neutral energy loans and has previously removed additional tax on wind and solar projects.
Industry groups and Energy companies Small and Duży warned Early ending of loans will have a significant impact on growth.
Tax relief for solar and wind energy, energy storage batteries and electric vehicles were introduced, among others, on the basis of a budget reconciliation account for 2022, known as “Act on inflation reduction”.
According to data collected by the Clean Investment Monitor, most of the investments in fresh production and neat energy production concentrated design By the Rhodium Group and Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research.
“Every Republican who votes in favor of this legislation votes against the interests of his voters, voting for killing jobs in his district, voting for killing pure energy projects, voting to raise bills for the energy of voters,” said Sittenfeld.
Motor members of the Chamber, who from Wednesday afternoon suspended their votes, maintain the withdrawal due to energy tax reductions, which they called “”Green fresh scam“Don’t go far enough.
