Today, Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07) voted against the Senate Amendment to Republicans’ Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 budget reconciliation bill, H.R. 1, which they are calling the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act of 2025.”  In May, Congresswoman Fletcher voted against the House’s original version of the legislation.  The Senate has since modified the bill, but its overall goals and effects are the same: cutting spending on health care, food assistance, and programs Americans rely on to extend tax cuts that principally benefit the wealthiest Americans while increasing deficit spending and the overall national debt.

“The Republican budget bill betrays the principles and the people of the United States.  It does not solve problems—it creates them, cutting funding for programs people in our district and across the country rely on, raising costs for American families to pay for tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans, and increasing deficit spending by $3.4 trillion over the next ten years,” said Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher.  “It was bad enough, and the Senate made it worse.  The bill presented to the House for consideration represents the largest transfer of wealth from working Americans to the wealthiest Americans in our history.  The American people deserve so much better than what is in this bill.  That’s why I voted against this bill in May and against this amended version today.”

Specifically, the Senate Amendment to H.R. 1:

• Eliminates access to health care for nearly 17 million Americans;
• Triggers $535 million in cuts to Medicare;
• Imposes unnecessary and burdensome red tape on Medicaid beneficiaries;
• Allows states to impose annual and lifetime dollar limits on benefits for kids enrolled in the Children’s Health Insurance Plan (CHIP);
• Slashes states’ ability to tax health care providers—cutting over $225 billion in revenues states rely on to finance their Medicaid programs;
• Kicks elderly and disabled people who need long-term care out of their homes if their home value has increased over the years—no matter how little income they have;
• Leaves more than 1 million Americans without access to reproductive health care, including cancer screenings and birth control, by eliminating Planned Parenthood centers nationwide from participating in federal programs;
• Takes away food assistance for millions of people, cutting more than $185 billion from the Supplemental Nutrition Program (SNAP), previously known as food stamps, including veterans;
• Cuts incentives for clean energy projects already in development; and
• Raises the debt ceiling by $5 trillion, adding a projected $3.4 trillion in deficit spending over the next 10 years.

The bill passed and is now headed to President Trump’s desk, where he is expected to sign it into law.