Former Vice President Harris slammed the “massive, lovely invoice” and highlighted its cuts to a number of welfare applications on Tuesday, hours after the GOP megabill narrowly cleared the Senate.
“Because of Senate Republicans, 17 million folks will lose their well being care,” Harris wrote on the social media platform X, citing an estimate from The Washington Publish that mixes a number of projections from the nonpartisan Congressional Finances Workplace (CBO).
“Because of Senate Republicans, rural hospitals will shut. Because of Senate Republicans, three million Individuals, together with veterans and seniors, will lose meals help. Because of Senate Republicans, households will see their power payments go up by $400 a 12 months,” she added.
These look like Harris’s first public feedback in regards to the invoice. The previous vice chairman has saved a low profile because the November election, though rumors have swirled that she is considering a run for California governor.
Harris joins a chorus of Democrats livid over the invoice’s passage which are vowing to proceed preventing because it heads again to the Home.
Plenty of Home Republicans have expressed critical issues in regards to the invoice’s Senate model, significantly over adjustments to Medicaid and the state and native tax (SALT) deduction cap. The Home Guidelines Committee met this afternoon to debate the measure.
Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.), a member of the Guidelines Committee, called the Senate’s model a “nonstarter” within the hours after it handed and mentioned he would vote “no” on any procedural measure.
In her Tuesday submit, Harris urged folks to name their representatives and inform them to vote “no” on the invoice, writing “There’s nonetheless time to cease this invoice.”
President Trump has maintained that he desires the invoice on his desk by July 4, a line that GOP congressional management reiterated after the Senate model handed Tuesday.