RELEASE: Gottheimer Statement on Trump’s Tax Hike Bill

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, July 3, 2025, U.S. Congressman Josh Gottheimer (NJ-5) released the following statement after voting against Trump’s extreme-right budget bill:

“Trump’s Tax Hike bill is a complete debacle for New Jersey, for our families, our children, our veterans, and our seniors. This is not the Big Beautiful Bill — it’s the Big F’ed Up Bill.

Trump’s Tax Hike bill will gut health care for seniors, take food away from hungry children, and send utility bills soaring. It will strip critical federal dollars from our State, and leave Jersey to pick up the tab. It will mean a new $3,300-per-year Trump Tax Hike on Jersey’s hardworking families — all while adding a staggering $3.3 trillion to the national debt. This bill is an immoral travesty that will send our country off the fiscal cliff.

It makes the largest cut to Medicaid in history, and threatens to rip care away from more than 12 million people. Many hospitals and nursing homes could be forced to close, while seniors will be thrown off their health care and tossed out of nursing homes. Two-thirds of seniors in nursing homes rely on Medicaid.

This bill makes the largest cut to food assistance in history — literally snatching food out of the mouths of hungry children. It’s completely heartless.

If that wasn’t bad enough, at a time when utility bills are already through the roof, this bill slashes energy supplies, including new clean energy, jacking up utility costs by $110-a-year for American families. At the same time, it gives massive tax breaks to Big Oil, coal companies, and gun manufacturers.

Trump’s Tax Hike bill is a direct assault on Jersey families, their pocketbooks, their health, and their futures.”

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