Governor Shapiro releases statement on GOP’s ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’

(WHTM) — Governor Josh Shapiro released a statement on the ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ that federal Republican lawmakers are attempting to pass through Congress.

His full statement, posted on June 29 on X, reads:

The bill Donald Trump and Republicans in DC are trying to ram through Congress right now does the following (according to Congress’ own independent, nonpartisan authority):

🩺 Knocks 11.8 million people off of health care — including 310,000 Pennsylvanians who get their health care from Medicaid. And for those who try to justify their votes by claiming “we’re just knocking ‘illegal immigrants’ off and eliminating ‘waste fraud and abuse’,” note that in Pennsylvania, it is against the law for an undocumented immigrant to get Medicaid and we lead the nation in rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse.

🥪 Takes food assistance away from more than 7 million people — 2 million children — including 140,000 Pennsylvanians. These people are working and just need a bit of extra help to feed their families. This is cruel to them and to our farmers who do the noble work of growing crops to feed their neighbors.

📈 Adds $3.3 TRILLION to our national deficit — limiting our freedom, harming the generation that has to clean up the mess long after Trump is gone.

👷‍♀️ Threatens 26,000 Pennsylvanians’ jobs — including thousands of union Building Trades members who work in our energy industry — who will lose their jobs because the bill raises taxes and eliminates funding for affordable energy development. As the second largest net energy exporter in the nation, this will crush the fastest growing parts of our energy sector. As an added insult to all Pennsylvanians, you’ll see higher electricity prices that will more than offset the important work my Administration has done to control electricity bills.

Ironically, this bill betrays the very people Trump vowed to help. Think about it — Trump and his fellow Republicans campaigned on reducing the deficit, vowed not to cut Medicaid, and cozied up to the Trades and promised to protect their jobs. They lied to win the election in the short term and the damage this will do here in Pennsylvania and across America is staggering and will be felt for years to come.

You have to ask, knowing just how harmful and unpopular this bill is: Why are they rushing to do this? Why are they pushing so hard to screw over so many people who voted for this President?”

Governor Josh Shapiro on X

Shapiro released a previous statement yesterday:

The false rhetoric from Republicans in Congress right now trying to justify cutting more than 500,000 Pennsylvanians off their health care is BS.

They claim they’re not knocking anyone off health care and just want to “get rid of waste, fraud, and abuse.”

Well, Pennsylvania leads the nation in rooting out Medicaid waste, fraud, and abuse. And you need to prove your citizenship or lawful immigration status to receive benefits.

So if the federal government wanted to help us keep doing that work and saving taxpayer dollars, I’d gladly accept it — but that’s not what they’re doing.

They’re rushing to kick hundreds of thousands of Pennsylvanians off their healthcare — and lying about it.”

Governor Josh Shapiro on X

Senate Republicans voted late last night to pass the One Big Beautiful Bill through a key procedural step in the process. The deadline to pass the bill is July 4.