Jasmine Crockett blasts Trump's 'Big Ugly Bill' one year after it became law

Rep. Jasmine Crockett strongly criticized the Trump administration on Thursday, accusing it of taking away healthcare and food programs for Americans while rewarding the wealthy with tax breaks under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. President Trump championed the bill as an important piece of legislation when he signed it in 2025. Sharing a video on X, Crockett claimed that the bill resulted in higher costs for working American families while Republicans treated American lives "like a reality TV show."

"The Big Ugly Bill has been a total red flag from the start," she said. "They ripped healthcare away from more than 5 million people, and now, millions more are stuck paying higher premiums." The reason for this is that the Affordable Care Act subsidies, which played a major role in keeping health insurance costs low, expired on the first day of 2026. The Trump administration refused to extend the federal subsidies.

"They decided to take away SNAP," Crockett continued. "They only get $6 a day to eat. And for 4 million Americans, they decided to take that away. They're out here giving tax breaks to the wealthy, funding reckless mass deportations, and acting like somehow that's helping working families. Taxpayer dollars belong to the people, not Trump." She also called the U.S. President a "Temu Hitler."

The One Big Beautiful Big Act promised individual tax breaks and business tax cuts by significantly reducing funding for low-income assistance programs, like SNAP and Medicaid. Instead, the administration placed the responsibility on states, which had to bear a portion of the costs related to such programs. Earlier in his second term, Trump had yold reporters that the federal government could not fund such programs, and that the states should take that responsibility.

It has been a year since OBBBA was signed into law, and as per a recent NBC report, it is changing who benefits from the government and who doesn't. The bill extended roughly $4.5 trillion in tax cuts, which have disproportionately benefited wealthy individuals and corporations over everyday Americans over 10 years. The bill also cut approximately $1.1 trillion from healthcare and food assistance programs like Medicaid and SNAP. It is also estimated to add $4.7 trillion to the national debt.

"I don't think it could be much clearer," NBC quoted Sharon Parrott, president of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, as saying. "They extended tax cuts for very wealthy people, they expanded tax cuts for very large estates, they put in new tax cuts for quite profitable businesses, and they did that in the same bill that they made millions of people lose food assistance and health coverage."

The administration, however, maintains that President Trump's flagship legislation has helped American families and workers claim $82 billion in individual tax breaks. "Under President Trump, our federal tax code and system reflect the American people's mandate to reject policies that punish success with tax hikes and embrace those that restore fairness, reward work, respect hard-earned paychecks, and reignite the American Dream," said Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.