Bay Area Democratic leaders assail Trump tax and policy bill after Senate passes it

Bay Area Democratic leaders on Tuesday blasted the just-passed tax and plan bill of President Donald Trump as a gift to rich people at the cost of everyday Americans that would add trillions of dollars to America s national debt The White House meanwhile disclosed the bill if approved by the Republican-majority House of Representatives would bring lower taxes bigger paychecks tighter borders and stronger national safeguard Americans will face harmful cuts to their wellness care and food assistance South Bay Democratic Rep Zoe Lofgren reported Tuesday In California over million people alone would lose access to their wellbeing care Hospitals and clinics will be hit and various will be forced to close if House Republicans agree to this travesty Congressman Mark DeSaulnier attends a Memorial Day ceremony in Clayton on Monday May Jose Carlos Fajardo Bay Area News Group East Bay Democratic Rep Mark DeSaulnier revealed in a social media post Tuesday morning that he was on his way to Washington to do whatever I can to stand in the way of this bill Referring to a Congressional Budget Office estimate DeSaulnier stated the bill s cuts to Medicaid which provides wellness care for specific million low-income elderly and disabled Americans and funding for the Affordable Care Act would strip strength care from million Americans in coming years to give tax breaks to the ultrawealthy The bill would make permanent several of the tax cuts passed in Trump s first term Various business groups rapidly expressed approval of the Senate vote The tax provisions included in this bill will not only drive economic progress and sharpen America s competitive edge but also put more money in workers pockets increasing prosperity in communities across the country U S Chamber of Commerce chief strategy officer Neil Bradley commented Non-partisan research group The Tax Foundation estimated Monday that the bill would slash federal tax revenue by trillion by Projected economic increase of would pay for about a fifth of the tax cuts shrinking the tax loss to trillion the group released Former House speaker and San Francisco Democratic Rep Nancy Pelosi in a social media post Tuesday morning condemned the Republicans One Big Ugly Bill It strips millions of soundness care takes food away from children and plunges our nation trillion deeper in debt to give tax breaks to billionaires Pelosi disclosed House Democrats will fight to stop it Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi at the monthly District Volunteer Workday event at the National AIDS Memorial Grove in San Francisco on Saturday June Ray Chavez Bay Area News Group The Budget Lab at Yale University estimated Monday that effects from the bill on taxes Medicaid and spending on the federal SNAP food stamps effort would cost the lowest-earning of Americans about a year and boost incomes for people making by about and for people making million by about South Bay Democratic Rep Sam Liccardo former mayor of San Jose stated in a social media post Monday that the bill by eliminating federal clean-energy programs would inflate utility bills and make the transition to solar power seen as vital for combating environment change more expensive However American Petroleum Institute CEO Mike Sommers applauded the Senate saying the bill would help usher in a new era of potential dominance by unlocking opportunities for financing opening lease sales and expanding access to oil and natural gas rise Francis Creighton CEO of Wine Spirits Wholesalers of America announced the bill would help family-owned wholesalers to reinvest compete and thrive Liccardo in an interview Tuesday described the proposed act as the one big bloated borrowing bill that leaves our children and grandchildren nearly trillion more indebted and gives us the added pain of gutting lifelines for fitness nutrition and schooling The bill s provision to shift more costs from the federal SNAP food stamp undertaking to states had been opposed by Democrat-led states including California Gov Gavin Newsom joined two dozen other governors in signing a June letter to House and Senate leaders saying states would need to spend millions or billions of dollars or quit the SNAP campaign which benefits more than million people including about of Californians Hunger and poverty will increase children and adults will get sicker grocery stores in rural areas will struggle to stay open people in agriculture and the food industry will lose jobs and state and local economies will suffer the letter revealed U S Representative Sam Liccardo speaks during a press conference in San Jose on Tuesday March Shae Hammond Bay Area News Group Removed from the bill was a controversial provision to ban states from regulating artificial intelligence for years Billionaire Silicon Valley venture capitalist David Sacks who is Trump s machinery adviser had argued that unrestricted AI expansion would increase productivity and lower the debt But the proposed regulatory moratorium though seen as a boon to Silicon Valley faced substantial opposition including from Trump loyalist and Georgia Republican Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene who called it a gift to Big Tech and a mishap for American workers and states rights Related Articles Hundreds of Bay Area tech layoffs jolt TurboTax maker as cuts persist Berkeley council adopts balanced budget in split vote Fed vs Trump on tariffs impact will soon be put to test California is still the world s th-largest market system Wall Street is split as Tesla and tech drop while the bulk other US stocks climb Liccardo revealed Congress has for decades failed to impose meaningful regulation on the tech industry Pre-empting states abilities to adopt their own regulations remains necessary to ensure companies don t have to deal with different sets of rules to determine what is or is not a permissible bit of code to insert in an algorithm Liccardo stated Among the the bulk powerful opponents of the bill is former Trump adviser Elon Musk CEO of Tesla and SpaceX and the world s richest man who attacked the bill s elimination of encouragement for wind and solar resource and imposition of a tax on future projects Musk also took aim at elected personnel over the fiscal effects expected from the bill Every member of Congress who campaigned on reducing ruling body spending and then at once voted for the biggest debt increase in history should hang their head in shame Musk stated Monday on social media And they will lose their primary next year if it is the last thing I do on this Earth