Dear Constituent, 

Do not let the White House try to put a great big spin on the “One Big, Ugly Budget Bill” in order to get the American people off of the real story—and onto Trump’s fantasy. 

Trump's One Big, Ugly Budget hurts Marylanders and Americans across this country, and there’s no other way around—that’s the truth. Here's what it does: 

• Takes health care away from 17 million Americans; 
  
  
• Enacts the largest Medicaid cut in history (slashing about $1 trillion from Medicaid);
  
  
• Cuts Maryland Medical Assistance and leaves 245,929 Marylanders without the care they need;
  
  
• Causes an estimated 1 in 4 nursing homes to close;
  
  
• Cuts $500 billion from Medicare;
  
  
• Puts in place the largest cut to nutritional assistance ever—including a 20% cut to SNAP and red tape requirements that will cause 5 million people to lose food assistance and put tens of millions of kids at risk of losing school breakfast and lunch;
  
  
• Costs more than 840,000 jobs in the next 5 years and an additional 790,000 jobs in the next 10 years;
  
  
• Gives almost a trillion dollars of tax cuts to the top 1% wealthiest Americans;
  
  
• Adds 4 trillion dollars to the national debt, and;
  
  
• Forces as many as 300 hospitals, especially those in rural areas, to cut services and staff—if not close completely.

As outrageous as it sounds—this is just a snapshot of some of the perilous provisions and impacts of this cruel legislation. 

Yesterday, House Democrats stood on the steps of the United States Capitol in opposition to the dangers of this legislation. 

We needed just four Republicans to vote against this menacing bill in order to stop it in its tracks.  

House Democrats proposed over 500 amendments to address the many wrongs in this bad bill. 

As a part of that, I submitted amendments of my own that would have prohibited the use of funds to Elon Musk's dreadful and destructive DOGE—and that would have protected Federal Pell Grant funding for students enrolled in college.  

Appallingly, every Democratic amendment was struck down by MAGA Republicans.

Rest assured—I voted a STRONG NO as I promised the people of our Congressional District I would. 

House Democrats stand with the American people—and I stand with you.  

Sincerely,

Kweisi Mfume
Member of Congress