Washington (July 3, 2025) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) today released the following statement after House Republicans voted to pass H.R. 1, Donald Trump’s so-called Big Beautiful Bill. The bill will now head to the President's desk for signature.

“On the eve of America’s Independence Day, House Republicans bent the knee to their wannabe king, Donald Trump. Instead of courage, we saw capitulation to the biggest cuts to health care, food security, and climate solutions in American history. Republicans betrayed the American people to budget for a big billionaire buy off. They do not care about serving their constituents who elected them to do so. They only serve King Donald.

“Republicans are choosing to kick 17 million Americans off their health insurance, including more than 326,000 people in Massachusetts. Republicans are choosing to tear food assistance away from hungry children and families, including 237,000 people in the Commonwealth. Republicans are choosing to shutter rural hospitals, nursing homes, and community health centers in Massachusetts and across the country. And Republicans are choosing to gut more than $500 billion in clean energy, environment, and climate investments – a choice that will disrupt local projects, hike household energy bills by more than $130 each year, and kill 760,000 jobs across the country by 2030.  

“This Independence Day, Trump and Republicans will raise a toast and boast about how their so-called Big Beautiful Bill benefits everyday Americans. But the American people are not fooled. They did not choose to have their health care revoked, their benefits slashed, and their leaders loot their livable future to lavish billionaires with massive tax cuts. We will not agonize – we will organize. We will not let Republicans off the hook for choosing King Donald over the American people.”

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