Demonstrators protest President Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ throughout from Trump Tower on fifth Avenue in New York, New York, on July 4, 2025.
Photograph by Gabriele Holtermann
As President Donald Trump signed his “Big Beautiful Bill” into regulation at a White Home navy household picnic on July 4, round 75 demonstrators gathered throughout from Trump Tower in Midtown Manhattan sounding the alarm that the brand new laws would hurt essentially the most weak Individuals.
Physicians for a Nationwide Well being Program NY Metro, Indivisible, and Rise and Resist organized the Independence Day protest. Julie DeLaurier, a member of the political motion group Rise and Resist, mentioned the protesters had been gut-punched and horrified at what she described as Republicans’ “gleeful” cruelty.
She joined the protest, which additionally included a die-in exterior of Trump Tower, on the Fourth of July as a result of it was “better than sitting at home and crying.”
“We’re going to fight this,” DeLaurier vowed. “We’re only six months into [the Trump administration]. We’ve got a long way to go, and we are here for the duration. We are never, ever going to sit down and take this. Other countries made the mistake. Other generations made that mistake. We will not make that mistake.”
As President Donald Trump signed his “Big Beautiful Bill” into regulation at a White Home navy household picnic on July 4, round 75 demonstrators gathered throughout from Trump Tower in Midtown Manhattan sounding the alarm that the brand new laws would hurt essentially the most weak Individuals. Photograph by Gabriele Holtermann
Feeling ‘run over’ by Trump
DeLaurier additionally expressed her frustration with the Democratic management, like Senate Minority Chief Chuck Schumer, for believing that they didn’t discover and use each potential avenue to cease the invoice and Trump’s agenda. Republicans maintain razor-thin majorities in each the Home and Senate.
“They have unanimous consent. They have the filibuster. They used nothing to stop or stall these appointments [and] these bills,” DeLaurier mentioned. “They’ve let Trump and the MAGAs run over them like Panzer tanks.”
The large tax and spending invoice cleared its closing hurdle within the Home on July 2 and requires $4.5 trillion in tax cuts, principally benefiting the highest 1% earners, in addition to $350 billion for nationwide safety, together with $30 billion for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and $45 billion for 100,000 migrant detention facility beds.
The laws additionally raises the nationwide debt restrict by $5 trillion, based on the nonpartisan Congressional Finances Workplace, which additionally projected it should add one other $3 trillion to the nationwide deficit — already at over $37 trillion and counting — over the following decade.
Demonstrators protest President Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ throughout from Trump Tower on fifth Avenue in New York, New York, on July 4, 2025.Photograph by Gabriele Holtermann
Losses to Medicaid and SNAP
In the meantime, the brand new regulation cuts funding to packages such because the Supplemental Vitamin Help Program (SNAP) by almost $300 billion, in addition to to Medicaid, the Reasonably priced Care Act, and the Kids’s Well being Insurance coverage Program, by roughly $930 billion. The regulation imposes work necessities of a minimum of 80 hours per 30 days to be eligible for Medicaid protection, and states providing Medicaid to undocumented immigrants would additionally lose federal funding.
Dr. Steve Auerbach, a retired pediatrician and public well being physician, informed New York News that america is the one capitalist democratic nation with out common healthcare, and slicing Medicaid would add extra stress to an already fragile healthcare system, placing the lives of Individuals at additional threat.
Auerbach, who additionally serves on the board of administrators of Physicians for the Nationwide Well being Program New York Metro chapter, mentioned each doctor had tales about sufferers who didn’t have the cash to fill prescriptions or tried to make a dose unfold out that it didn’ deal with their well being situation, individuals who had been afraid to name the ambulance due to the payments and died due to a coronary heart assault, or couldn’t afford to take a look at the lump of their breast and died of most cancers.
Demonstrators protest President Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ throughout from Trump Tower on fifth Avenue in New York, New York, on July 4, 2025.Photograph by Gabriele Holtermann
“And now it’s going to get worse for the first time in American history, we’re actually going backwards on our already dysfunctional, limited health care,” Auerbach mentioned. “As a patriot, why can’t the United States do this as well as every other rich capitalist democracy around the world? [Universal healthcare] is not a lefty fringe socialist commie thing.”
In an announcement, Gov. Kathy Hochul mentioned the massive “ugly” invoice would make life tougher for working households and labored intently with the NY legislature to “brace for the impact and protect as many New Yorkers as possible.”
“There’s nothing beautiful about this bill,” Hochul mentioned. “It’s a big, ugly betrayal — stripping health care, hiking costs, and slashing food assistance for millions. And it was made possible by New York’s seven Republican members of Congress. They wrote it. They endorsed it. Now they’re cheering it on, selling out the very people they were sent to Washington to represent.”
