Pallone Derides Trump’s ‘Catastrophic’ Budget Bill

U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone (D-6) reflected this evening on President Donald J. Trump’s Budget Bill.

Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” would extend his 2017 tax cuts for millionaires and corporations at a cost to critical social programs such as Medicaid. On Saturday, the Congressional Budget Office estimated that the Senate legislation would increase the deficit by more than $3.9 trillion over the next 10 years (From The New Republic).

Pallone’s full emailed statement to InsiderNJ:

“When House Republicans passed Trump’s devastating tax bill without a single Democratic vote, we knew it would be catastrophic for New Jersey. Trump’s Big, Ugly bill slashes at least $3.6 billion from our state’s Medicaid program every year – jeopardizing care for over 800,000 residents….