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Fetterman Votes “HELL NO” on GOP’s Big Beautiful Bill

Reconciliation Bill Blows Up Debt, Guts Medicaid and SNAP, Hands Tax Breaks to the Top 0.1%

Washington, D.C. — Today, with the United States deadlocked 50–50 final vote, Vice President Vance cast the tie-breaking vote to pass reconciliation bill H.R. 1, One Big Beautiful Bill Act. U.S. Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) voted against it and released the following statement:

“Millions thrown off health care? ✅

“Hungry kids denied food? ✅

“Huge tax cuts for billionaires? ✅

“National debt headed for $40 trillion? ✅

“This bill is a disaster, which is why I voted HELL NO. The GOP will own the consequences.”

For 26 hours straight, Senator Fetterman joined his democratic colleagues in voting for dozens of amendments to counteract the GOP’s attack on low-income and middle-class Americans. Some key impacts of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act for Pennsylvanians include: 

• Adds over $4 trillion to the national debt, raising mortgage payments by nearly $1,000 a year and small-business loan costs by over $800.

• Slashes $930 billion from Medicaid, impacting the 39% of children in Pennsylvania who depend on Medicaid or CHIP.

• Kicks 450,000 Pennsylvanians off their health insurance and threatens over 300 rural hospitals and 500 nursing homes nationwide.

• Raises grocery costs for 40 million Americans and jeopardizes food assistance for the nearly 2 million Pennsylvanians who rely on SNAP to put food on the table.

“My colleagues on the other side of the aisle wrote and passed this 940-page bill without giving us time to read it. I’ll keep fighting to protect health care, defend nutrition assistance, block giveaways for billionaires, and prevent trillions more added to our national debt,” Senator Fetterman concluded. “This bill is now in the hands of my colleagues in the House, where hopefully a handful of Republicans will put their constituents before campaign donors and shut this down.”