Reaction Varies to Passage of One Big Beautiful Bill

Gov. Pillen Praises Passage of One Big Beautiful Bill

 LINCOLN, NE – Governor Jim Pillen released the following statement after the U.S. House of Representatives voted to pass the ‘One, Big, Beautiful’ reconciliation bill.

“The vast majority of Nebraskans support President Trump’s vision for his America First Agenda. This legislation is foundational to extending tax cuts for families, boosting our military, securing our borders, and growing agriculture. Despite attempts by Democrats to run the clock on this bill, Republicans – especially Nebraska’s Congressional delegation – deserve a lot of credit for working day and night to deliver policy that puts our state and country on a trajectory of great growth.”

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RELEASE: Nebraska’s Members of Congress vote to slash health care and food access to separate families 

LINCOLN, NE – Today, the House finalized passage of the budget reconciliation bill that will devastate our communities, stripping health care and food support away from tens of thousands of Nebraskans and their families. The bill now moves to President Trump’s desk for approval and is expected to be signed into law. 

This bill contains over $1 trillion in cuts to programs that keep communities healthy and strong. It drastically increases overall spending by prioritizing tax breaks that benefit billionaires, as well as historically unprecedented funding for sweeping and unproductive deportations of everyday working people that will separate families and devastate communities. 

All five members of Nebraska’s delegation voted to advance the President’s destructive agenda and fail the people of this state and the country. This bill will:

Increase Harmful Immigration Enforcement by:
Providing unprecedented funding totalling approximately $126 billion for family detention and jailing on an unimaginable scale, and for sweeping and unproductive enforcement of long-outdated immigration laws – separating local neighbors and families, and destabilizing whole communities. 

Dismantle SNAP by:
Shifting huge, unmanageable costs to states to cover SNAP, risking loss of benefits or eligibility for the 150,000 Nebraskans currently utilizing the program.

Implementing additional overly restrictive SNAP work requirements on older Nebraskans up to age 64, parents of young children, former foster youth, people experiencing homelessness and veterans who are already struggling to keep food on the table and were previously exempt from these red-tape reporting barriers.

Take Away Health Care from Nebraskans by: 
Slashing Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act, resulting in nearly 17 million people losing health insurance coverage and costs going up for the rest. 

Attacking Nebraska’s voter-approved Medicaid expansion – which provides more than 65,000 Nebraskans with life-saving health care coverage – by imposing unnecessary work requirements that put up to 40,000 Nebraskans at risk of losing their health care. 

Ending Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) coverage for Nebraska children and families who are refugees, asylees, certain victims of domestic violence and trafficking, and people granted humanitarian protection.

Weaken the Child Tax Credit by:
Taking the Child Tax Credit away from U.S. citizen children with parents who are stuck in immigration limbo. 
Increasing the Child Tax Credit for higher income families – while leaving out at least 17 million of our lowest-income children.

Since January, Nebraskans continuously voiced their opposition, sharing what this bill will cost our communities. The fight now moves to the state legislature, and Nebraskans across the state will need to work together to ensure that our state mitigates as much harm as possible caused by this sweeping piece of legislation