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 program 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 noted the bill if approved by the Republican-majority House of Representatives would bring lower taxes bigger paychecks tighter borders and stronger national safety Americans will face harmful cuts to their vitality care and food assistance South Bay Democratic Rep Zoe Lofgren declared Tuesday In California over million people alone would lose access to their vitality care Hospitals and clinics will be hit and several 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 explained 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 revealed the bill s cuts to Medicaid which provides vitality care for several million low-income elderly and disabled Americans and funding for the Affordable Care Act would strip medical care from million Americans in coming years to give tax breaks to the ultrawealthy The bill would make permanent plenty of of the tax cuts passed in Trump s first term A large number of business groups speedily expressed approval of the Senate vote The tax provisions included in this bill will not only drive economic enhancement 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 guidelines officer Neil Bradley mentioned 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 stated 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 wellbeing 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 Locality 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 venture 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 noted 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 setting change more expensive However American Petroleum Institute CEO Mike Sommers applauded the Senate saying the bill would help usher in a new era of capacity dominance by unlocking opportunities for expenditure opening lease sales and expanding access to oil and natural gas maturation Francis Creighton CEO of Wine Spirits Wholesalers of America noted the bill would help family-owned wholesalers to reinvest compete and thrive Liccardo in an interview Tuesday described the proposed regulation 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 medical nutrition and schooling The bill s provision to shift more costs from the federal SNAP food stamp project 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 scheme 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 mentioned 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 device adviser had argued that unrestricted AI advancement 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 accident 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 business activity Wall Street is split as Tesla and tech drop while majority of other US stocks climb Liccardo stated 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 disclosed Among the majority 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 help for wind and solar vitality and imposition of a tax on future projects Musk also took aim at elected officers over the fiscal effects expected from the bill Every member of Congress who campaigned on reducing regime spending and then this instant voted for the biggest debt increase in history should hang their head in shame Musk noted Monday on social media And they will lose their primary next year if it is the last thing I do on this Earth