LANSING — This Fourth of July will mark the one-year anniversary of Donald Trump and Republicans’ so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA). Since its passage, the harm to working people is clear: millions of Americans have lost healthcare and millions more are on track to lose their coverage, prices are up, and working people are fighting for scraps. Ahead of the OBBBA’s one-year mark, Michigan Democratic Party Chair Curtis Hertel released the following statement: 

“One year ago, Republicans in DC voted to rip away healthcare, gut rural hospitals, and take food off families’ tables. Now, working Michiganders are finding it even harder to make ends meet while billionaires cash in. 

“Make no mistake: Republicans all the way down the ballot—Mike Rogers, the GOP candidates for governor, and every Michigan Republican in Congress—supported this cruel agenda, knowing fully well it would gut the programs families in our state rely on. Michiganders deserve more than spineless politicians who rubber-stamp Trump’s toxic agenda at their expense, and they’ll remember how Republicans betrayed them when they go to vote this November.”

The OBBBA has made it harder for working families to afford basic necessities and healthcare: 

• The White House claimed the OBBBA would deliver on Trump’s promise of “driving down Americans’ cost of living.” Instead, Americans are paying more for everything, resulting in the average family paying $3,100 more in Trump’s economy.
• Millions of Americans have lost their healthcare or are paying more for the same coverage. 
  • As the OBBBA forced premiums to more than double, ACA enrollment has fallen by 4 million people.
  • Between 171,000 and 355,000 Michiganders are projected to lose Medicaid coverage due to Trump’s budget. Across the nation, the cuts mean 15 million Americans will lose healthcare.
  • Trump’s budget puts rural hospitals on the chopping block, with at least one hospital closure in Michigan so far.
• John James voted for Trump’s cuts to Medicaid and kept the door open to ending Medicaid expansion entirely in Michigan. Perry Johnson praised Trump’s Medicaid-cutting law and called it a “win for Michigan.” 
• Mike Rogers “firmly supported” the OBBBA and was caught spreading a “widely debunked lie” that the law won’t kick Michiganders off of Medicaid. 
• Michigan Republicans in Congress like Tom Barrett and Bill Huizenga all voted to gut Medicaid and rip away healthcare.

The OBBBA is the largest-ever transfer of wealth to the rich in a single piece of legislation:

• The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy found the OBBBA “will increase taxes for most Americans, significantly expand income inequality, and add trillions to the national debt, while delivering substantial tax cuts to high-income households, corporations, and foreign investors.”
• In 2026 alone, the OBBBA will give $117 billion in tax handouts to the top 1 percent.
• Even after cutting trillions in services, the OBBBA is expected to add tens of trillions to the national debt.
• When Michigan Republicans celebrate the OBBBA, they conveniently leave out the part about it giving tax breaks to the top 1 percent.

The OBBBA means less energy to go around, fewer jobs, and higher prices: 

• Energy prices increased more than five times faster than the cost of living over the past year.
• Even before Trump’s war with Iran, Americans’ energy bills were up 13 percent.
  • Trump’s war of choice cost Americans $64 billion at the pump alone.
• Trump’s budget gave $18 billion in tax handouts to fossil fuel companies, while slashing tax incentives for the production of affordable, clean energy.
  • 180,000 jobs in clean energy have been lost or stalled since Trump’s election.
• Under Trump, utility companies have requested $95 billion in rate hikes which would affect over 100 million Americans.

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