WASHINGTON – Senators are releasing statements after the U.S. Senate passed President Donald Trump’s big bill of tax breaks and spending cuts in .
Idaho
Idaho Senator Mike Crapo, who voted “yes” on the bill, posted on X that he was “proud to join my colleagues in advancing this historic legislation.”
“With this bill’s passage, the United States Senate is fulfilling President Trump’s promise to secure the border, fortify our national defense and unleash American energy. This legislation also prevents the biggest tax hike in the U.S. history from ever happening, delivers additional tax relief to hardworking families and takes significant steps to get our fiscal house in order,” he wrote in his statement.
He celebrated policies like no taxes on tips, no taxes on overtime, tax relief for seniors and additional child care assistance while also celebrating “reining in wasteful spending.”
Idaho’s other U.S. Senator, Jim Risch released a statement as well.
“The American people gave us a mandate—secure the border, make the Trump tax cuts permanent, dismantle the Green New Deal, and address wasteful spending. While no bill is perfect, the One, Big, Beautiful Bill delivers on these priorities and provides working Americans with the largest tax cut in history,” said Risch.
“Congress is not done tackling out-of-control spending. I remain committed to reining in the national debt and ending the waste, fraud, and abuse of taxpayer dollars,” he continued.
Risch described the bill’s achievements and described how it cuts $1.6 trillion in federal spending, provides “the largest tax relief in U.S. history” for working Idahoans, protects Idaho’s public lands from being sold, repeals Green New Deal subsidies and preventing Idaho tax dollars from funding projects like , modernizes the Farm Bill safety net programs to support Idaho farmers and ranchers and more.
Montana
U.S. Senator Steve Daines said he “applauds” the Senate passage of the bill and said that “We Delivered on Our Promise to Support Trump’s America First Agenda.”
His statement said, “The American people were clear in November that they were ready for change. Today we delivered on our promise to support President Trump’s America First agenda. The Big Beautiful Bill secures the border, strengthens our national security, unleashes American energy, reduces wasteful spending and cuts taxes for working families. Montanans will be better off because of this bill and I was proud to support it.”
Montana’s other U.S. Senator, Tim Sheehy, released a statement as well.
“From securing the border, to strengthening our military, to preventing the largest tax increase in history while implementing no tax on tips and overtime, the One, Big, Beautiful Bill delivers huge wins for working-class families across the country and revives the American Dream. I’m proud to see it pass the Senate. Montanans and Americans spoke clearly on November 5th: they expect us to deliver on the America First agenda, and they can rest assured I’ll keep fighting to unleash prosperity and restore common sense in our nation’s capital,” he wrote.
Oregon
Oregon Senator Ron Wyden called the bill “The most dangerous piece of legislation I’ve seen in my time in public service.”
He criticized what he described as cutting clean energy, defunding Planned Parenthood, cutting “billions and billions” of Medicaid dollars and the use of the money saved to give new tax breaks to “the ultra-wealthy.”
“In the days and weeks ahead, my team and I will be pulling out all the stops to protect those Oregonians who are so vulnerable,” he said.
“People all over this country are starved for opportunity, crushed by the cost of living and unable to afford the health care they need, but apparently Republicans think they’ve still got it too easy. This bill is about caviar over kids and hedge funds over health care,” he said in a separate post on X.
Oregon’s other U.S. senator, Jeff Merkley, said that “This bill is: families lose, and billionaires win.”
He described the 27-hour voting session and said that Democrats attempted to add amendments to the bill “to make this bill work for families and workers” while Republicans voted them down.
He claimed that the bill would add nearly $30 trillion to the national debt over the next 30 years and accused Republicans of being dishonest with the American people and committing budget fraud.
“This fight isn’t over, and the House should reject this bill outright and prevent it from ever becoming law. As Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, I will continue fighting back against Republicans’ mission to slash programs that help families thrive to fund massive tax breaks for billionaires,” he said.
Washington
Washington State Senator Patty Murray released a statement calling the bill a “monstrosity.”
In the title of the release, Murray called it the “Big, Ugly Bill to Rip Away Health Care, Nutrition, Abortion Access from WA State Families & Balloon National Debt to Fund Tax Cuts for Billionaires.”
In her statement, she claimed that, for people in Washington, the bill will result in 328,695 people losing healthcare, 900,000 people seeing reduced or eliminated SNAP benefits and 14 rural hospitals becoming at risk of closure.
The estimate of 328,695 people that would lose health insurance is based off of an estimate from the Joint Economic Committee.
The estimate of 900,000 people seeing reduced or eliminated SNAP benefits is cited from a study published by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. The study points out that 11% of Washingtonians rely on SNAP.
The fourteen hospitals that would be at risk of closure come from a study from the Office of Senator Edward J. Markey from Massachusetts, which was cited in a letter on rural hospitals.
She also added that 620,000 Washingtonians might be at risk of losing their health coverage or having it delayed, citing a study from Washington Apple Health (Medicaid).
Murray had put forward an amendment to the bill which would have removed a section that would prohibit the use of federal funding for abortion providers, family planning services, reproductive health or related medical care.
Her amendment was voted down 51-49.
In her release, Murray said that the Republican-proposed bill would cut more than $900 billion from Medicaid, which she said was $100 billion more than the proposed House bill. She explained that this means about 17 million Americans would lose their health care, citing the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.
She also claimed that more than 300 rural hospitals and over 500 nursing homes could close because of the legislation.
“This fight is not over—this bill is not yet law and I am not going to stop raising my voice and making sure the American people know exactly what is in it. Communities in Eastern and Central Washington will be among the hardest hit by these gigantic cuts to Medicaid and SNAP—now is the time to raise your voices and tell your Republican Members of Congress to vote NO. Republicans in the House need to listen to the American people and abandon this disaster of a bill,” she wrote in the release.
Washington’s other U.S. Senator, Maria Cantwell, called the bill “devastating.”
“I voted against this bill that will strip health insurance from 17 million Americans. The bill that Republicans drafted in the dark of night will hit those that can least afford it the hardest. The lowest 20% of earners will lose an average of $700 a year, far more than they will get from the tax cuts,” she wrote in a statement on the bill.
She said that the final text of the bill was not shown to Senators before it was pushed forward by the final vote. As a result, the Congressional Budget Office has not yet been able to calculate the financial impact of the bill.
Hours before the bill’s final vote, around 4 a.m., Cantwell was able to pass an amendment alongside Tennessee Senator Marsha Blackburn with a 99-1 vote that removed a 10-year pause on state AI regulations.
“The Senate came together tonight to say that we can’t just run over good state consumer protection laws,” Cantwell said. “States can fight robocalls and deepfakes and provide safe autonomous vehicle laws. This also allows us to work together nationally to provide a new federal framework on Artificial Intelligence that accelerates U.S. leadership in AI while still protecting consumers.”
