The Senate’s tax bill is the most dangerous legislation in modern history—ripping health care from the sick, food from the hungry, and hope from working families, all to shovel more tax breaks to billionaires and corporate executives. This damning indictment from U.S. Representative Jim McGovern (D-MA) reverberated through Congress as the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (OBBBA) passed the Senate by a 50-50 vote, broken by Vice President JD Vance, just an hour before his speech. Delivered with fiery urgency, McGovern decried the bill’s opaque 1,000-page text, rushed through with “zero transparency” in a process he labeled “legislative malpractice.” He accused Republican leadership and the White House of jamming it through backroom negotiations, violating conservative spending instructions by over $500 billion, and racing to meet an arbitrary July 4th deadline for Trump’s ego-driven “victory lap”—complete with a costly military parade. As the bill moves to the House, McGovern warned of its devastating impact, urging Republicans to resist complicity despite their “petrified fealty” to Trump.
Joining McGovern, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) amplified the alarm on X on July 1, 2025, with an infographic detailing the bill’s alleged toll: 17 million losing healthcare, food and utility costs rising, and $4 trillion added to the national debt. She called for public action, providing the congressional hotline (202-224-3121) and asserting, “This fight isn’t over. We have the power to stop it.” Warren’s critique aligns with McGovern’s, highlighting the bill’s rushed passage and its threat to vulnerable Americans.
After 26 hours of fighting on the Senate floor, Republicans voted to rip health care from millions of people and let little babies go hungry. And they cheered.
I’m angry. You should be too. But this fight isn’t over. pic.twitter.com/5W6Jnro7dh
— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) July 1, 2025
Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), a champion of economic equity, is likely to echo this, potentially tweeting, “This bill is a giveaway to the 1% while millions lose healthcare. Call your reps NOW!” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) might coordinate a formal response, stating, “The Senate’s vote on Trump’s bill is a step backward for American families. We must fight in the House to protect our values.” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC, D-NY) could emphasize social justice, posting, “17M people lose healthcare, food costs soar, all for billionaire tax cuts? This is why we fight. #StopTheBill.” Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA), with her health policy expertise, might add, “This bill endangers 17M Americans’ health coverage. We need to stop it in the House.”
McGovern’s speech provided stark details: the CBO and experts like the Joint Committee on Taxation and Tax Policy Center confirm 11.8 million will lose Medicaid and ACA coverage, with 5 million more losing premium assistance, devastating rural hospitals and nursing homes. He highlighted cuts to nutrition assistance, the end of clean energy jobs, and $150 billion more for defense contractors—despite the Pentagon never passing an audit—while $900 billion benefits corporations stashing profits offshore. Tax cuts favor the wealthy, offering less than $1 a day to families earning under $50,000 but $96,000 annually to millionaires, adding over $3 trillion to the debt and raising the debt ceiling by $5 trillion. McGovern called it “the biggest transfer of wealth in American history,” abandoning children and punishing the elderly and disabled.
He criticized Republican hesitation, citing Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s admission that the bill isn’t ready, yet she voted for it—a “dereliction of duty.” McGovern challenged the GOP’s fiscal hawk pretense, noting their fear of Trump’s wrath, as one colleague admitted on CNN that voting no risks their jobs. He urged them to heed constituents in places like Boone, North Carolina, and Jamestown, New York, who will feel the pain, predicting electoral consequences.
This unified Democratic front frames the OBBBA as a Trump-driven assault on working families, with its fate now in the House’s hands. As public pressure mounts, the coming days will test this opposition’s resolve.