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Lawmaker: Last summer's GOP bill raised health-care costs and cut food assistance
Summary
The speaker called the prior GOP measure the "big ugly law," saying it raised health-care costs and cut food assistance amid high food prices, using that example to argue current measures worsen economic strain.
A lawmaker criticized a prior bill passed last July, saying it "makes health care more expensive for the American people while cutting off their food assistance at a time that food prices are through the roof." The speaker contrasted what was once called the "big beautiful bill" with what he called the resulting "big ugly law."
The transcript records the assertion but does not include bill text or staff presentations to substantiate the specific programmatic effects cited. The speaker used the claim to build a narrative that the current Republican approach has increased consumer hardship rather than alleviating it.
