ANALYSIS: ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ cuts expected to outweigh benefits for low-income families
July 9, 2025
(OSV News) — It’s a question with profound implications for millions of Americans: With the Trump administration’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” signed into law July 4, will families thrive or languish? Will poverty increase, or decrease? Will more go hungry, or will more be fed?
In a record-breaking eight-plus hours speech from the floor of the House, Democratic Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y. declared, “Republicans are trying to take a chainsaw to Social Security, a chain saw to Medicare, a chain saw to Medicaid, a chainsaw to the health care of the American people, a chain saw to nutritional assistance for hungry children, a chain saw to farm country, and a chainsaw to vulnerable Americans.”
