Over IFPTE’s Objections, Congress Passes Historically Draconian Budget Bill

Eliminates healthcare for 17 million, food assistance for millions more, and will eliminate hundreds of thousands of jobs, all to pay for a tax cut for billionaires

Despite the best efforts of IFPTE and IFPTE Locals nationwide, including Local 21, the Senate passed their version of the budget reconciliation bill by a single vote. On July 3, after a full day of House Republican leadership, President Trump, and Vice President Vance pushing dissenting House Republicans to pass the bill, the bill was passed by 218 Republicans voting for it, and 212 Democrats and 2 Republicans voting against it. This bill will go down in history as one of the cruelest pieces of legislation that has passed in Congress in recent history, if not ever.

The bill will hand out trillions in tax cuts to billionaires like Elon Musk and President Trump himself, and help to offset some of the cost for those tax cuts by cutting over $1 trillion in Medicaid and food assistance funding, lead to the loss of 850,000 jobs from the Medicaid cuts alone, and increase the national deficit by $4 trillion over the next ten years.

While the legislation did not include Republican-backed provisions that aimed to eliminate federal labor unions and turn the federal government into an at-will employer, IFPTE nonetheless condemned the bill, calling it, “a nightmare of a bill,” and that, “we won’t look past the inhumanity at the center of this budget reconciliation bill.”

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IFPTE will continue to oppose the implementation of this bill, work to reverse this cuts to America’s safety net, and make sure our members understand the impacts of this bill and the policy choices lawmakers made when they voted for this bill.

Read IFPTE’s statement on the House passage of the budget reconciliation bill here and the statement on the Senate passage of the budget reconciliation bill here.