Ty Jones Cox
@TyJonesCox
Advocate, Mom, Wife, VP of Food Assistance @CenteronBudget. Focused on racial, gender & economic justice & believes everyone should have food. Also on BlueSky
Should the ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ reach President Trump’s desk, “it would represent the biggest rollback in federal support for health coverage ever,” writes KFF's @larry_levitt. For @nytopinion, Larry writes about the potential impact of the bill: nytimes.com/2025/07/01/opi…
CBO's new estimate confirms: the Republican reconciliation law includes the largest #SNAP cut in history ($187B or ~20%). It will take food assistance away from more than 2M low-income ppl & cut food benefits for tens of millions more. Some states could even end SNAP entirely.
People who face barriers to securing steady employment or who live in an area with few job opportunities still face those exact same challenges when their food or health care gets taken away by a work requirement. But now they also don't have food or health care.
“Even if we cut every single thing in the state, we don’t have the money to backfill all these cuts.”
Trump’s megabill is creating a budget nightmare for states ow.ly/Nhrh106fIVZ
Congressional Republicans and the President now own its impact. Unfortunately, it is their constituents who will pay the price for their poor leadership. cbpp.org/press/statemen…
It is quite unsettling to watch House Republicans cheer for a bill that will take health insurance from millions, increase hunger for so many & drive up deficits. This day will not be forgotten.
House & Senate Republicans have now passed a bill that will raise families' food & health care costs, increase poverty & hunger, take health coverage away from millions of ppl & drive up deficits - all to give costly tax cuts to the wealthy & corporations.
The harm will be real. "Unfortunately, the current financial environment, driven by anticipated federal budget cuts to Medicaid, has made it impossible for us to continue operating all of our services..." klkntv.com/rural-southwes…
Let me explain what's going on here. CBO does say that bill's onerous paperwork provisions will result in 5 million people losing insurance. But not because they are are all not working, because most of them are. The coverage loss comes from ELIGIBLE people who get knocked off.
Jennings: There are like almost 5 million able bodied people on medicaid who simply choose not to work. They spend six hours a day socializing and watching television. And if you can't get off grandma's couch and work, I don't want to pay. Phillip: I don't know where you're…
CBO has indicated 900,000 low-income adults aged 55 through 64 will lose food assistance under the expansion of SNAP's harsh work requirement to older adults. Older workers face employment discrimination & half of low-income adults in this age range face health barriers to work.
The Freedom Caucus is mad that 800,000 kids would be at risk of having their food benefits cut dramatically under the Senate-passed bill's unprecedented expansion of SNAP's harsh & ineffective work requirement to parents. They're mad because they think that number is *too low.*
NEW -- HFC and its allies have released a three-page document detailing serious concerns with the Senate GOP reconciliation bill. We have sent the document to Punchbowl News Text subscribers.