“DEVASTATING”
Democrats called the Bill “devastating” for the middle class, pointing to CBO estimates that its cuts to public health insurance for low-income Americans would deprive around eight million people of coverage.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries called the Bill “the largest cut to health care in American history … in order to enact the largest tax breaks for billionaires in American history”.
Trump has seen his polling numbers plummet since his White House return, but success in uniting the normally polarised House Republicans underlined his continued sway over the party.
The president had pressured lawmakers to back his signature legislation in a rare Capitol…