Washington D.C. – Today, U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell (AL-07) released the following statement after voting against President Trump’s Big Ugly Bill:

Watch it on YouTube here. 

“While the rest of America was sleeping, House Republicans were busy doing the bidding of the billionaire class. Instead of keeping their promise to lower costs, Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans have perpetrated the greatest betrayal of working families in modern history and set us on a path to greater inequality, deeper poverty, and needless suffering, all to give another tax break to the wealthy. It is shameful.

“My heart aches for the millions of Americans who will be hit hardest by this cruel and heartless bill—the single mom at risk of losing her child’s Medicaid coverage, the grandmother who may no longer qualify for SNAP, the families in rural Alabama whose nearest hospital may soon be forced to shut its doors. 

“House Republicans may have sold them out, but the American people are paying attention, and they will not forget this betrayal.”

Background 

The Big Ugly Bill makes the largest cut to health care and SNAP in American history, threatening to kick more than 190,000 Alabamians off their health care and jeopardizing food assistance for more than 750,000 Alabamians.

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