Alabama Democratic Congressional delegation votes against ‘Big, Beautiful, Bill’

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May 28, 2025

Both members of Alabama’s Democratic Congressional delegation recently decried the passage of President Donald Trump’s “Big, Beautiful, Bill.”

The 1,000-page piece of legislation passed by a vote of 215-214, with no Democrats voting in favor of the measure. The bill includes extending the 2017 tax cuts while also adding no tax on tips and no tax on overtime pay. The legislation also adds work requirements for Medicaid benefits, increases spending for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and brings back the State and Local Income Tax (SALT) deduction.

U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell (D-Birmingham) voted against the measure because she believes it inflicts devastating cuts to the programs that Alabama families rely on and will add $5 trillion to the national debt.

“The Trump Tax Bill, which passed the House today, is nothing more than a $4.5 trillion tax giveaway to big corporations and wealthy individuals at the expense of America’s working families,” said Rep. Sewell. “The bill will kick 13.7 million Americans off of Medicaid and cut $300 billion from SNAP benefits for hungry families.”

Simply unacceptable. pic.twitter.com/UVkQaBJ6cH

— Rep. Terri A. Sewell (@RepTerriSewell) May 22, 2025

U.S. Rep. Shomari Figures (D-Mobile) also voted against the legislation for similar reasons.

“One in four people in my district receive Medicaid benefits,” Figures said. “These are people who cannot afford to lose health care access. They cannot afford to lose access to SNAP benefits. And the truth of the matter is, the truth is that people will lose those benefits all in an effort to make long money even longer. And so my question is, is there money being longer worth people in my district’s lives being shorter? And it’s not. It never will be. It never can be. We have to stand up for these people.”

Taking away access to Medicaid and SNAP for those who need it most just to benefit the very rich is not worth it, and it never will be. That’s why I voted no on the Republicans’ budget bill. pic.twitter.com/OQNDSmJhmo

— Rep. Shomari C. Figures (@repscfigures) May 22, 2025

Yaffee is a contributing writer to Yellowhammer News and hosts “The Yaffee Program” weekdays 9-11 a.m. on WVNN. You can follow him on X @Yaffee

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