Members of Missouri’s congressional delegation split along party lines Thursday when the U.S. House passed President Trump’s “big, beautiful budget bill.”
Republicans Sam Graves, Mo. 6th Dist.; Ann Wagner, Mo. 2nd Dist.; Bob Onder, Mo. 3rd Dist.; Mark Alford, Mo. 4th Dist.; Eric Burlison, Mo. 7th Dist.; and Jason Smith, Mo. 8th Dist., all voted “yes.”
Alford stumped for the budget bill before the vote.
“This is a generational opportunity to reset the direction of our great nation,” he said. “Let me be clear: my colleagues on the other side of the aisle don’t like this bill because it puts hard working Americans first, not the bureaucrats, not special interests, and not those who break our laws.”
Missouri Democrats Wesley Bell, Mo. 1st Dist., and Emanuel Cleaver, Mo. 5th Dist., both voted “no.”
Cleaver blasted the bill, saying it will massively redistribute wealth from the poorest families to the richest 1% while exploding the national deficit by more than $3 trillion. It contains an $800 billion cut to Medicaid and a roughly $270 billion cut to SNAP benefits — both to be spread out over ten years’ time.
“It will lead to sicker and more pain-filled communities,” said Cleaver. “It will be a massive economic weight holding down Missouri families and small businesses alike as more of our neighbors are stricken with increased medical debt.”
But Alford said the proposed budget will protect Medicaid by removing more than a million illegal immigrants from taxpayer-funded benefits and halting federal coverage of gender transition surgery. It now goes to the U.S. Senate.
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