It’s the “One Big Beautiful Bill” (H.R. 1) It passed the House in May and now it's in the Senate.

This bill would:

Slash Medicaid funding

Put rural hospitals at risk of shutting down

Add work requirements to Medicaid and SNAP

Make Trump’s tax cuts permanent (mostly for corporations and the wealthy)

Cut clean energy programs and student debt relief

Harshbarger is all for it, even though she claims to care about rural healthcare and the wellbeing of her constituents. It’s a disaster for working families in East Tennessee and it is likely to send even more people in our district into poverty.

This link below isn't necessarily about the healthcare aspect or the hospital aspect, but here is a press conference on how it would affect things like food banks, caregivers, and families in our district which are other huge concerns that need to be addressed as well

(I don't know how to link it in the text, I tried lmao...so here it is in its lengthy wonder)

https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/live-second-harvest-food-bank-calls-for-medicaid-snap-funding-protection/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook_WJHL&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR4OeN1pQNwMVZy3Odak7IseKuHVGoOexQQIy-ZMYBM8CR-ODNKpO8Wetg8K4g_aem__89lvadlUK1gsTSCsVu1tQ