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DPI - July 3, 2025
Springfield, IL — In response to Republican U.S. Representatives Mike Bost (IL-12), Mary Miller (IL-15), and Darin LaHood (IL-16) passing the GOP’s devastating tax and spend bill after closed-door meetings all day yesterday, Democratic Party of Illinois Chair Lisa Hernandez released the following statement:
“Donald Trump, U.S. Representatives Mike Bost (IL-12), Mary Miller (IL-15), and Darin LaHood (IL-16) have made it crystal clear to Illinoisans: if you are not a billionaire, you and your family don’t matter. This is one of the worst bills in the history of Congress. It’s a massive scheme to steal from working folks, struggling families, and even from nursing homes — all to enrich the already rich with a tax giveaway. Trump and his Republican lackeys had multiple off-ramps to get away from this incredibly unpopular bill, but are hellbent on ripping away Illinoisans health care, forcing Illinoisans to go hungry, and killing jobs all across our state — all to line the pockets of their billionaire donors. Representatives Bost, Miller, and LaHood just betrayed Illinoisans. Democrats are mobilizing across the country and are ready to fight back now, at the ballot box in 2026 and beyond.”
DPI - July 3, 2025
NEW: Representatives Bost, Miller, and LaHood just passed Trump’s disastrous billionaire-first tax and spend bill that takes a wrecking ball to Illinois families’ livelihoods… 535,849 people across Illinois will lose health insurance 22,000 manufacturing and energy jobs in Illinois would be eliminated $400 average yearly increase in energy bills for Illinois families *154,965 students in Illinois could have their Pell grants cut or eliminated entirely. *9 Illinois hospitals are at risk of closing — ripping away access to critical emergency medical care for millions of Americans *205,000 Illinoisans are at risk of losing food assistance, forcing working families and children to go hungry and could drag Illinois’ economy into the gutter…
*Costs the Illinois economy $6.682 BILLION in GDP *Kill 49.9 THOUSAND jobs
*Plummet Illinois tax revenue by $640 MILLION
*Unions are warning this is the “biggest job-killing bill in the history of the country” all to make Trump’s tax scam permanent and fund another round of tax breaks for the ultra-wealthy on the backs of Illinoisans…
DPI - July 3, 2025
• Axios: “The draft legislation would extend the cuts in the 2017 tax bill, and it adds on some more breaks.”
• USA Today: “Low-income families would lose, wealthier ones would gain under GOP tax proposals”
• New York Times: “Poorest Americans Dealt Biggest Blow Under Senate Republican Tax Package”
• Associated Press: “GOP tax bill would cost poor Americans $1,600 a year and boost highest earners by $12,000, CBO says”
and funnel thousands into the pockets of the wealthiest Americans:
• This bill cuts $1.3 trillion in food assistance and health coverage while giving the wealthy that exact amount in tax breaks
• Actively transfers money from the poorest among us to the richest:
o Republicans are slashing incomes among the poorest 20% by 3.8% while increasing the incomes of the richest 20% by 3.7%
o Americans making under $15,000 — below the federal poverty level — will see their taxes increase by 12% in the short term and jump 73% by 2033
o Americans making above $1,000,000 — more than 50 times the federal poverty level — will get an average tax cut of $79,000.
