{"id":37269,"date":"2025-07-04T05:39:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T05:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/37269\/"},"modified":"2025-07-04T05:39:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T05:39:09","slug":"san-diego-democrats-dismayed-by-passage-of-trump-spending-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/37269\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego Democrats dismayed by passage of Trump spending bill"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"The<\/a>House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., left, speaks in the House chamber as House Democrats stand to applaud him, prior to the final vote for President Donald Trump\u2019s signature bill of tax breaks and spending cuts, at the Capitol, Thursday, July 3, 2025, in Washington. (Photo by Rod Lamkey, Jr.\/AP)<\/p>\n

House Republicans lifted\u00a0President Donald Trump\u2019s\u00a0$4.5 trillion tax breaks and spending cuts bill<\/a>\u00a0to final passage Thursday.<\/p>\n

They overcame multiple setbacks to approve his second-term policy package before a self-imposed Fourth of July deadline.<\/p>\n

The tight roll call, 218-214, came at a potentially high political cost, with two Republicans joining all Democrats opposed. GOP leaders worked overnight and the president himself leaned on a handful of skeptics to drop their opposition and send the bill to his desk to become law.<\/p>\n

The passage of the\u00a0800-plus page \u201cbig beautiful bill\u201d<\/a>\u00a0will likely become a defining milestone of Trump\u2019s return to the White House, and it\u2019s indicative of the power the right wields in this majority-Republican Congress.<\/p>\n

The atmosphere was joyous and musical at a ceremony for the passage of Republicans\u2019 signature tax and spending bill.<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe in America,\u201d said House Speaker Mike Johnson, becoming briefly emotional as his colleagues cheered for him just ahead of the bill signing.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverything was an absolute disaster under the Biden-Harris radical, woke, progressive, Democrat regime,\u201d Johnson said, adding that Republicans \u201chad to quite literally fix every area of public policy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Johnson took selfies with lawmakers just before he signed the bill. Lawmakers all posed around the House speaker with their thumbs up as Johnson signed it, mimicking Trump\u2019s signature poses. Half a dozen lawmakers also danced with their fists \u2014 Trump\u2019s trademark dance move \u2014 as \u201cY.M.C.A\u201d broke out in the room after Johnson penned his signature.<\/p>\n

\u201cWithout his leadership, none of this would have been possible,\u201d said Rep. Lisa McClain, the GOP conference chair. \u201cBut today, we passed actual transformational legislation, legislation that will impact every family tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n

San Diego\u2019s Congressional delegation, comprised mostly of Democrats, feel the same \u2013 but they don\u2019t think Americans\u2019 lives will be transformed for the better.<\/p>\n

Rep. Mike Levin, D-Dana Point \u2013 his district covers parts of North County and Orange County \u2013 called the legislation \u201cthe worst bill that the House has voted on during my time in Congress\u201d and said House Republicans \u201cdon\u2019t care what they\u2019re doing to working families.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve made sure my Republican colleagues know exactly what their vote in support of this legislation means,\u201d he said in a news release. \u201cThe numbers are dire. Health care coverage ripped away from 17 million Americans. Food assistance for 42 million threatened. Home electricity bills increasing over $400 dollars a year.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Escondido, in a social media post, criticized Democrats for their filibuster before the bill passed.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery Democrat in Congress is about to vote against tax cuts on tips, overtime, social security, car loans, families with kids and small businesses \u2014 while promising billions in benifits (sic) for illegals,\u201d he wrote. \u201cNo wonder they\u2019re filibustering.\u201d<\/p>\n

Like Levin, though, other San Diego Democrats pointed to the substantial cuts coming, especially for those in need of public assistance. <\/p>\n

Rep. Juan Vargas said that \u201cRepublicans in Congress have inflicted an unbelievable amount of pain and suffering on millions of families across the country and made it clear that billionaires matter more than their constituents. It\u2019s an absolute betrayal. Shame on them. This won\u2019t be forgotten.\u201d<\/p>\n

For Rep. Sara Jacobs, \u201cthis bill represents government at its worst. It cements inequality by eliminating the few levers that people have to escape and stay out of poverty. It saddles future generations with enormous debt and a sicker and hungrier workforce.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rep. Scott Peters, another San Diego Democrat, said \u201cthis partisan bill asks only those with the least to sacrifice while giving tax breaks to those with the most.\u201d <\/p>\n

It is, he concluded, \u201cobscene.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., left, speaks in the House chamber as House Democrats stand to applaud…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":37270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,7330,20009,69,1142,30290,7331,30291,3549,7264,7333,7334,10977,16566,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-37269","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-darrell-issa","12":"tag-deficit","13":"tag-donald-trump","14":"tag-healthcare","15":"tag-juan-vargas","16":"tag-mike-levin","17":"tag-public-assistance","18":"tag-san-diego","19":"tag-sandiego","20":"tag-sara-jacobs","21":"tag-scott-peters","22":"tag-tax-cuts","23":"tag-u-s-house-of-representatives","24":"tag-united-states","25":"tag-united-states-of-america","26":"tag-unitedstates","27":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","28":"tag-us","29":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114793359819086121","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}