Statement comes as President Trump signs his budget bill into law
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator John Hickenlooper released the following statement as President Trump signs his disastrous budget bill into law.
“With one signature, 40 million people are now at risk of losing the SNAP benefits that keep children from going hungry. And 17 million Americans will lose their health care. 241,000 of them live in Colorado.
“With the rise of AI, American-made energy will be insufficient, more expensive, and less dependable.
“Every single American will now be spending more of their hard-earned dollars to pay for tax breaks for the wealthiest among us.
“This is when the rubber hits the road. Republicans can’t escape the damage this bill will do. We won’t stop fighting to reverse this cruel law.
“And trust us, the American people will have the final word.”
The Republicans’ reconciliation bill includes a $3 trillion tax cut for the wealthiest Americans. It pays for those tax cuts by taking healthcare away from 17 million Americans, forcing rural hospitals in Colorado to close their doors, gutting clean energy investments, and ballooning our national debt by trillions of dollars.
On Tuesday, Hickenlooper voted NO on the Senate budget resolution after Republicans voted down critical Democratic-led amendments to prevent cuts to Medicaid, SNAP, and Inflation Reduction Act clean energy funding.
On Wednesday, Hickenlooper held a statewide press conference with Colorado Governor Jared Polis, and U.S. Representatives Diana DeGette, Joe Neguse, Jason Crow, and Brittany Pettersen to call on House Republicans to reject the extreme legislation and highlight the harm it will cause Colorado.
The House passed the budget bill on Thursday, and now the bill is signed into law.
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