Shelby Gonzales

Estimated Budgetary Effects of an Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute to H.R. 1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, Relative to the Budget Enforcement Baseline for Consideration in the Senate As posted on the website of the Senate Committee on the Budget on June 27, 2025

New Congressional Budget Office (CBO) numbers confirm what we already knew – the reconciliation bill is getting worse, not better. The Senate bill will cut health care more deeply than the House bill and leave more people uninsured. www.cbo.gov/publication/...

Let's be clear: The Senate Republican bill would take away health coverage and food assistance from millions of people who need it — all to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy.

The Senate quietly stripped veterans, people experiencing homelessness, and young people who recently aged out of foster care of their current exemptions from SNAP's harsh work requirement. CBO estimates this change alone would cut 270,000 people off SNAP. thehill.com/opinion/cong...

NEW: The Senate version of One Big Beautiful Bill is one big ugly transfer of wealth from low-income families to the rich.

Americans struggling to get by will pay more for groceries & health care so the highest income families can get big tax cuts. This isn’t shared sacrifice.

This provision should be rejected entirely as it tramples over states’ sovereignty and would create great hardship for people who will experience poorer health outcomes and more risk of medical debt because they can’t get health coverage.

And states without programs today will feel financially blocked by the penalty in the future even as they later experience the consequences of having more uninsured people due to the anti-immigrant health provisions taking away coverage from immigrants living lawfully in the U.S.

This would force most of the 16 states + DC who provide such coverage to end existing programs if they wanted to avoid the steep penalty (NY would not be able to do this because its Constitution requires them to cover some people that would trigger the penalty).

Research Note: Senate Bill Would Cut Medicaid Funding to Penalize States Providing Own Health Coverage to Certain Immigrants | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities The Senate Finance Committee released a bill that would take significant federal funds away from states with certain programs funded solely with state money that provide comprehensive health coverage ...

The penalty would double the cost states would have to pay for their Medicaid expansion group, if they provide state-funded coverage to certain immigrants outside of the Medicaid program:

www.cbpp.org/research/hea...

In addn to blocking fed $ for even more immigrants lawfully living in the US incl refugees, the plan incl a harsh new penalty for states that have expanded Medicaid, if they use state-only $ to provide non-Medicaid coverage to ppl who don’t meet the “qualified” immigration standard,

It’s less well-known that many people with documented immigration statuses are also ineligible for these programs because of a 1996 law that created an extremely narrow immigration-related requirement to enroll in Medicaid and CHIP: “qualified” immigrant.

It’s a fact that people who do not have a documented immigration status are barred from accessing comprehensive health coverage through federal programs like #Medicaid.

The latest Senate Republican plan retains a deeply harmful provision that tramples over state rights’ to make decisions about how to use their own funds to ensure their state residents can access comprehensive health coverage.

Senate Republicans Can Still Abandon Disastrous, Rushed Reconciliation Bill | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities The Senate is barreling toward a vote on a still-not-finished bill that would take away health coverage and food assistance from millions of people who need it, raise families’ costs, and make a large...

The Senate is barreling toward a vote on an unfinished bill that wld take away health coverage & food assistance from millions, raise families’ costs, & make ppl in our nation worse off. There’s still time for senators to say no to this bill. My statement: www.cbpp.org/press/statem...

Senate Agriculture Committee’s Revised Work Requirement Would Risk Taking Away Food Assistance From More Than 5 Million People: State Estimates | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Revised legislation released June 25 by Senate Agriculture Committee Chair John Boozman would slightly modify several of the SNAP cuts in Senate Republican leaders’ reconciliation plan, but the...

People in ***every state*** are at risk of losing their food benefits under the Senate Republican proposal to cut off eligibility for people who don’t meet a red-tape-laden, ineffective work requirement.

See the impact in your state ⬇️ www.cbpp.org/research/foo...

Birthright citizenship has been a cornerstone of U.S. constitutional law since Reconstruction, grounded in the 14th Amendment’s promise of equal protection. The Admin's actions & the court's insistence on creating more hurdles to stop a clearly unconstitutional policy puts that promise at risk.

Children born in our nation to immigrant parents have contributed to the vitality of their communities and our nation; denying them citizenship in their country of birth is not only cruel, but robs our nation of their gifts and talents.

These babies may also be denied access to vital benefits like #Medicaid, #CHIP and #SNAP. Parents may fear seeking prenatal and hospital care.

And for families, the consequences would be enormous- babies could be denied U.S. citizenship, leaving them stateless and unprotected.

The logistics are staggering. Hospitals wld have to quickly change citizenship & records-related processes that have been in place for decades. Expectant moms would need to scramble to find docs before going to the hospital. States wld have to modify how they issue birth certificates.

It would impact which babies get birth certificates, #SocialSecurity numbers, and passports, and eligibility for benefits such as #Medicaid that provides babies with access to health care services that are greatly needed to support healthy development.

If the Trump EO is allowed to go into effect, it would give federal agencies 30 days to figure out how to implement this complicated and deeply troubling new policy.

While today’s decision doesn’t go into effect for 30 days, providing the opp for groups to seek ways to expand the # of ppl protected by the current orders, it may result in creating a fractured, chaotic system where a child born in one state is a citizen & in another stateless.

Today’s ruling isn’t on the constitutionality of birthright citizenship, but on whether the Admin’s policy to strip citizenship from babies born in the US can proceed in states or for plaintiffs that aren’t part of the lawsuits while the underlying question is litigated in courts

In one of those cases, a Reagan appointed Judge stated, “I’ve been on the bench for over four decades. I can’t remember another case where the question presented was as clear as this one is. This is a blatantly unconstitutional order.”

This EO was stopped by 3 separate court decisions (with 22 state plaintiffs, plus DC) that issued nationwide injunctions.

Shortly after taking office, Pres. Trump issued an EO that restricted birthright citizenship to only babies whose parents met specific immigration or citizenship requirements.

For context, for more than 125 years the 14th Amendment has guaranteed the right to citizenship to virtually all babies born in the U.S., regardless of the immigration status of their parents:

www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/fact-sheet/b...

Make no mistake-- today’s Supreme Court ruling does not end constitutionally guaranteed birthright citizenship. However, the SCOTUS has ruled against the injunctions that have been blocking The Trump Administration’s birthright citizenship EO from being implemented nationwide.

Medicaid Expansion States Will Be Hard Hit by Anti-Immigrant Health Provisions in Senate Plan | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Senate Republicans are trying to create harsh immigration-related restrictions on coverage...

And states that have expanded Medicaid will be particularly hard-hit by the Senate taking away coverage to people living lawfully in their states including refugees and others granted humanitarian protections: www.cbpp.org/blog/trackin...

Many People Living in the U.S. Lawfully Remain Targets for Harsh Health Care Cuts in Senate Reconciliation Plan | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Though the Senate reconciliation plan remains in flux as Senate Republicans identify ways to...

Many people living lawfully in the U.S. will lose health coverage under Senate plan: www.cbpp.org/blog/trackin...