Congressman Suhas Subramanyam’s Statement on the Passage of the One Big Ugly Bill
“This One Big Ugly Bill is a betrayal of the promises this administration made to the American people. At a time when families and small businesses are facing high costs and difficulty accessing care, this bill will raise prices, strip health care and food from millions, and bankrupt our country by adding trillions to the national debt.
As if that weren’t enough, this bill includes several measures that specifically target Virginia, including singling out our local airports to make flying in and out of our region more expensive and allocating tens of millions of dollars to relocate the Space Shuttle Discovery from Virginia to Texas. It also empowers the administration with a hundred-million-dollar slush fund to continue cutting essential programs and firing the region’s federal workforce. All of this to fund tax breaks that will disproportionately benefit billionaires and the wealthiest corporations.
This bill will hurt every Virginian and every American. I will make it my mission to reverse the damage that it will do. The American people deserve better.”
– Congressman Suhas Subramanyam
Background:
H.R. 1 (also known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act) will strip over 17 million Americans of their health care and add over $3 trillion to our national debt. 800,000 Virginians, including 300,000 children, will lose some or all of their food assistance. The bill will also kick an estimated 323,000 Virginians from their health care coverage entirely and drive-up health care costs for everyone.
The bill will also raise energy prices by 8% in Virginia while doling out tax breaks for fossil fuel companies, and over 15,000 jobs could be eliminated in Virginia by the elimination of clean energy tax credits. In Section 40007, page 163, the bill doubles the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority’s (MWAA) lease payments to the federal government and forces them to renegotiate the lease every 10 years, which will make flying in and out of Northern Virginia more expensive and could lead to higher toll costs. It also provides millions of dollars to move the Space Shuttle Discovery from Virginia to Texas.
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