LAS VEGAS, NV – This week, U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV) joined the City Cast Las Vegas podcast for a conversation about the devastating impacts that Donald Trump’s extreme tax-and-spending “Big Beautiful Bill” will have on Southern Nevada. With the help of Republicans in Congress, Trump pushed through a bill that will gut access to health care, cut funding for hospitals and food assistance programs, and even harm Nevada’s gaming industry.
City Cast Las Vegas: Why Sen. Rosen Says Trump’s Bill Is Screwing Over Las Vegans
Below are quotes from Senator Rosen throughout the episode:
- On the cuts from the Republican law: “Hospitals are closing, kids are getting kicked off of Medicaid, seniors are getting kicked out of nursing homes, people aren’t going to get their school lunches and food, the list goes on and on. And the real plot twist is this: billionaires get more money.”
- On hospital funding cuts: “UMC is our level one trauma center, our public university hospital. They’re going to lose 45-50 million dollars. What does that mean? Well, it’s a Level One Trauma Center. God forbid you get in an accident and you go there, there will be less doctors, less nurses, less services. 45-50 million bucks is a big hit on a community hospital.”
- On SNAP cuts: “One in five kids in Nevada is food insecure. One in five. That’s a pretty high number. We think about school lunch and breakfast programs, and we think about their families and how over 130,000 Nevadans get SNAP. In the wealthiest nation in the world, kids will go hungry and families will go hungry, all to give money to Trump’s billionaire buddies? It’s despicable.”
- On new Republican tax on gambling: “This doesn’t only hurt Nevada, it hurts everyone… It’s going to hurt our gambling industry all across the nation.”
- On No Tax On Tips: “I put myself through college as a waitress. I know how hard it is to live on tips. Something that people don’t understand is that tips are variable. You could work a shift and not make enough money for the day. What we wanted to do was introduce the no tax on tips bill on its own so that Republicans in the House couldn’t tie it to Medicaid and snap cuts.”
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