Over and over, and over again, Donald Trump promised that if elected, he and congressional Republicans would never touch the Medicaid, Medicare, or Social Security programs that millions of Americans rely on.
A year after Trump signed the big betrayal of the working class into law, that promise lies in ruins, and the proof is showing up in insurance bills, grocery carts, and family budgets across the country.
According to the Yale Budget Lab, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act handed the richest Americans an average of $14,000 a year while draining $700 a year from the poorest Americans’ pockets.
“Donald Trump spent two years telling working people he was on their side, and the last twelve months proving he wasn’t,” said American Bridge 21st Century spokesperson Brandon Weathersby. “The people who wrote the biggest checks to his campaign got the biggest rewards. Everyone else got the bill, and they’ll be paying it for a generation.”
Gutting Healthcare:
- According to the Congressional Budget Office, nearly 12 million Americans will lose their healthcare coverage due to the Republican agenda. In total, when all of the Republican changes to healthcare policy are realized, the number of Americans without health insurance is expected to increase to about 17 million.
- Roughly 5 million people have already been pushed off their Affordable Care Act health plans, with marketplace enrollment cratering from a record 24.2 million to 19.2 million after Republicans allowed enhanced premium subsidies to expire.
- Monthly costs for those who managed to hang onto coverage jumped by an average of 58 percent, with some families seeing their bills double or triple overnight.
- The experts studying the numbers agree: people aren’t dropping coverage because they stopped needing it; they’re dropping it because Republicans made it unaffordable.
- The bill’s Medicaid cuts strip nearly a trillion dollars from the program that seniors in nursing homes, people with disabilities, and low-income children depend on for basic care, and rural hospitals that already operate on razor-thin margins are warning they may not survive the hit.
- Several rural hospitals have already announced closures or service cuts, and health policy analysts expect more to follow as Medicaid funding dries up over the next several years. For families in small towns and farming communities, that could mean losing the only emergency room or maternity ward within an hour’s drive.
Major Cuts to Food Assistance:
- The law guts federal SNAP funding by $186 billion over the next decade, the deepest cut to food assistance in the program’s history, while quietly shifting costs onto states that could trigger even more benefit reductions in the years ahead.
- New work requirements and funding rollbacks tied to the bill are now in effect, threatening benefits for more than a million older adults and squeezing eligibility for millions of others nationwide.
- The timing could not be worse. Groceries, household staples, and meals out have all gotten more expensive and show no sign of slowing down, leaving families who depend on SNAP stretching fewer dollars to cover a more expensive cart.
Tax Cuts For The Ultra-Wealthy:
- The Congressional Budget Office found the bill would cost the poorest 10% of Americans roughly $1,200 a year while increasing the income of the wealthiest 10% by an average of $13,600 annually.
- Independent analysts called it the largest upward transfer of wealth in modern American history. Households earning $1 million or more received roughly twice as much in tax relief as the bottom half of the country combined.
- Due primarily to the massive tax cuts for the richest people in the country, the bill adds $3.8 trillion to the national deficit over the next decade.
Published: Jul 2, 2026