The original post was published on May 22, 2025. The updated post was published on July 1, 2025.
Both the U.S. Senate and U.S. House proposals, if enacted, dramatically cut funding to services and programs Connecticut residents rely on and makes it harder for residents to access healthcare, afford food, and attain higher education degrees while providing massive tax giveaways to the ultra-wealthy and corporate interests as well as increasing the federal deficit.
[NOTE: This document only provides highlights of key provisions in H.R. 1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, that relate to the CT budget and CT Voices’ issues. This document is based on what we know as of June 30, 2025 with some updates that we’re aware of as of July 1, 2025. As such, it’s important to understand that there are changes still unknown.]Drastic, proposed funding cuts and structural changes to Medicaid and SNAP will put more children and families at risk of poverty and without food and healthcare (click HERE for details):
- $186 billion cut to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) over nine years. Impacts 40 million U.S. residents who would see their benefits cut through a permanent freeze of the program’s Thrifty Food Plan (outside of inflation), and millions more as a result of the bill’s work requirements. The bill would also prevent food assistance from going to non-citizens, including people who are refugees and asylees.
- This means new, work requirements for parents with children and seniors, people experiencing homelessness, former foster youth, and veterans. The State of Connecticut would also see a reduction starting in 2026 and a state match of between $44 million to $133 million per year starting October 2027. (Click HERE for details.)
- Nearly $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid over nine years. Impacts 17 million U.S. residents who would lose coverage (and leaves them uninsured) and between 9.8 million and 14.8 million residents (roughly 160,000 to 380,000 more people than under the House version) who would be at risk of losing Medicaid coverage in 2034 under the bill’s work requirements that start at the end of 2026, and raises costs of coverage for more than 20 million in ACA marketplaces.
- Approximately 156,000 people in Connecticut would lose health coverage and become uninsured under the Senate bill. This is in addition to increased co-pays that residents with incomes above the federal poverty level will have to pay if they receive health care coverage through Medicaid expansion. The bill also makes it harder for the State to finance Medicaid programs. While it’s hard to determine the precise number, it’s fair to say the costs are significant. Connecticut lawmakers will have to determine how much of the federal funding gap they’re willing to close for providers and recipients. (Click HERE for details.)
Unprecedented, proposed changes to higher education as well as budget increases to enforce a mass deportation agenda (click HERE for details):
- Higher Education
- Eliminates and restricts various federal student grants and loans for higher education as well as reduces forbearance and deferment options. (Click HERE for details.)
- Increases the excise tax on certain college endowments.
- Mass Deportation Agenda
- Increases funding for the Department of Homeland Security to build a $45 billion border wall.
- Adds $45 billion for ICE to build family detention camps (13 times its annual budget) as well as an additional $31 billion for agents to enforce a deportation agenda.
Massive, proposed tax cuts to the ultra-wealthy and powerful corporate interests who don’t need tax giveaways while irresponsibly increasing the deficit (click HERE for details):
- $4.5 trillion in tax cuts, according to an estimate from the Congressional Budget Office, of which $3.8 trillion is a result of extending and expanding the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA). (Click HERE for details.)
- Ends green-energy tax credits by 2028 instead of 2031 and some even sooner.
- The bill would increase the U.S. federal deficit by at least $3.3 trillion.