STATEMENT: The Budget Reconciliation Bill — a Disaster for Human Decency and our Economy
Originally published at Pennsylvania Policy Center on July 3, 2025. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 3, 2025 CONTACT: Kirstin Snow, snow@pennpolicy.org The House of Representatives’ decision to agree to a morally and economically bankrupt budget reconciliation bill is deeply troubling. There is so much that’s appalling about what Donald Trump and the Republicans have done. There is the shredding of the social safety net—deep cuts to Medicaid, the ACA, and SNAP—that will bring physical pain, economic distress, and thousands of premature deaths to the people of Pennsylvania and the United States. Seventeen million people in the United States and roughly 500,000 in Pennsylvania will lose health insurance. Four million people in the United States are at risk of losing SNAP while Pennsylvania losses will be between 400,000 and one million people per year. There is the repeal of the efforts to address climate change, which will even more rapidly create natural… Continue reading