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WASHINGTON, DC – Representative Jimmy Gomez (CA-34) released the following statement after House Republicans passed their tax bill:  

“Through the dead of night, I stood side by side with House Democrats at the Capitol fighting Trump’s all-out assault on the American people. I am proud to have just voted NO on his disastrous Big Billionaire Bill, written to steal from working families, shower trillions on the billionaire establishment that owns the Republican Party, and drown our country in debt.

It guts Medicaid, ACA subsidies, and food assistance for millions of families, students, seniors, and workers just trying to get by. It raises costs, slashes services, and funds Trump’s deportation and immigrant detention machine. It buries a generation in poverty, all to give massive handouts to the ultra-wealthy, while ballooning the national debt to record highs. This isn’t policy, it’s economic sabotage. 

That debt will drive up interest rates, hike borrowing costs on everything from mortgages to car loans to credit cards. It will choke off investment in jobs and growth, making life even more expensive for everyone except the ultra-wealthy. 

This bill will deepen inequality and hollow out what is left of the American promise. But I didn’t fight through the night just to give up in the daylight. The stakes are too high. The damage to our neighbors is too real. And I remain laser-focused on turning outrage into action and this betrayal into accountability come Election Day.”