ICYMI: New Hampshire Delegation Blast Trump’s “Big Beautiful Betrayal”
This week Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01), Senator Jeanne Shaheen (NH), Senator Maggie Hassan (NH), and Congresswoman Maggie Goodlander (NH-02) held a press conference at Waypoint to highlight the harmful impacts of Republicans’ disastrous budget megabill on New Hampshire. You can view front page coverage of the press conference here or in full below.
The bill will take health care and food assistance away from millions while also ending tax credits that help folks save on their utility bills, all to give tax breaks to billionaires and corporations. More than 46,000 Granite Staters will lose their health care coverage through Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act, and thousands risk losing food assistance. It will also raise household energy and health care bills for everyone while adding trillions to the debt, in order to give the top .1% of people an extra $300,000 a year on average.
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Union Leader: N.H. Dem delegation calls Trump budget the 'big betrayal'
- Speaking at a news conference at Waypoint in Manchester, the quartet charged what Trump has called the “big, beautiful bill” will cut off health care to 45,000 Granite Staters and reduce or eliminate SNAP food benefits for low-income families while raising energy and property taxes for the entire state.
- Rep. Chris Pappas said calls to his district offices on the bill ran “100-to-1” against it. “The time to continue the fight on behalf of working families and people working paycheck to paycheck in New Hampshire is not near an end,” said Pappas.
WMUR: NH congressional delegation unites to blast local effects of spending, tax cut bill
- The full New Hampshire congressional delegation continues to sound the alarm over the impacts of the budget reconciliation legislation that is now the law of the land, saying cuts to Medicaid will be felt far beyond the social safety net.
- Shaheen and Hassan, along with U.S. Reps. Chris Pappas and Maggie Goodlander, said the bill is going to downshift costs from the federal government to the states and from states to taxpayers.
NHPR: New Hampshire’s congressional delegation condemns U.S. budget bill
- New Hampshire’s four members of Congress are condemning the new federal budget which they said could see roughly 45,000 Granite Staters lose healthcare coverage and trillions of dollars added to the nation’s debt.
- Pappas said the bill is widely unpopular with constituents. “I've never seen more people reach out to our office and tell very deeply personal stories about how this bill would impact them,” Pappas said. “I think the numbers were running about 100 to 1 against this piece of legislation.”
- The delegation teamed up on Tuesday in New Hampshire's largest city at Waypoint, which notes that it's the state’s longest-running home and community-based care charitable organization. Waypoint officials noted that roughly three-quarters of the people they service are on Medicaid.