Washington D.C. – Today, U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell (AL-07) voted against President Trump’s tax bill, which inflicts devastating cuts to the programs that Alabama families rely on and will add $5 trillion to the national debt. 

“The Trump Tax Bill, which passed the House today, is nothing more than a $4.5 trillion tax giveaway to big corporations and wealthy individuals at the expense of America's working families,” Said Rep. Sewell. “The bill will kick 13.7 million Americans off of Medicaid and cut $300 billion from SNAP benefits for hungry families.” 

“These drastic cuts to Medicaid and nutrition assistance are the largest in history and represent an outrageous betrayal of our values as Americans,” continued Sewell. “Alabama families shouldn’t be forced to foot the bill for Trump’s billionaire tax cuts. I voted NO.”

Watch Rep. Sewell’s floor remarks on the Trump tax bill during debate here.

The Trump bill also:

• Cuts over $700 billion from Medicaid, threatening 176,181 Alabamians in AL-07 and the healthcare providers that serve them. This includes 121,745 children and 23,000 seniors.

• Gives a $20 billion tax windfall to wealthy donors of private school voucher schemes that divert precious resources from our public schools.

• Makes it harder and more expensive to get coverage through the ACA Marketplace, taking healthcare from an estimated 17,700 people in AL-07 and increasing costs for the 55,000 people in our district who have coverage through the ACA, amounting to a $510 annual hole in their household budgets and a 66% increase in premiums.

• Slashes the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which helps put food on the table for 197,000 people in AL-07. This amounts to the largest cut to nutritional assistance in American history.

• Cuts the Community Eligibility Provision, threatening 100,290 children who rely on free school lunches.

• Cuts essential funding for Pell Grants, which would jeopardize the futures of 24,913 students in AL-07 who rely on Pell Grants to afford their education.

• All while giving $1.1 trillion in tax giveaways to people making more than $500,000 a year.