STATEMENT: The Senate Vote Is a Historic Failure
Originally published at Pennsylvania Policy Center on July 1, 2025. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE JULY 1, 2025 CONTACT: Erica Freeman, freemane@pennpolicy.org The Senate Vote Is a Historic Failure Senate Passes Bill that Takes Health Care from 17 Million, Adds $4 Trillion to Nat’l Debt Today the Senate passed what, if also passed by the House, will go down as one of the most reviled pieces of legislation in American history. No other legislation in our history has ever redistributed as much income from those at the bottom and middle of the income distribution to those at the top. No other in our history has ever stripped away health care and food assistance from tens of millions of people in our country and hundreds of thousands in our state. The unfairness of this legislation is almost palpable. Right now, almost everyone in America receives government subsidies for the essential good of health… Continue reading