Huffman Statement on House Passage of ‘Trump’s Big, Ugly Bill’
Screenshot of Congressman Huffman speaking at the House Natural Resources Committee meeting
Press release from the North Coast Congressman Jared Huffman:
“Republicans just rammed through one of the most shameless betrayals in recent memory: Trump’s Big, Ugly Bill is a full-blown catastrophe for the American people. President Trump promised affordability, and now Americans will pay higher energy bills. Republicans campaigned on energy independence, but they’re giving China the deal of the century. They promised a stronger economy, yet they just kneecapped hundreds of thousands of good-paying jobs. They promised to protect our public lands, and now they’ve auctioned our resources off to polluters and developers,” Rep. Huffman said.
“This unconscionable legislation is what it looks like when a government turns its back on the people it vowed to serve. Millions of Americans will have their health care and food assistance taken away. And what’s worse? Republicans are proud of this bill. They’re celebrating a scheme that steals from working families to bankroll billionaire tax breaks and handouts to fossil fuel CEOs,” Huffman said. “Once again, Republicans and President Trump have made their priorities painfully clear: when forced to choose between Americans and their billionaire donors, they’ll betray us and sell us out every time.”
Although Republicans refused to consider any Democratic amendments to improve their partisan sweetheart deal, Rep. Huffman filed the following amendments to protect working families, safeguard our public lands, and prevent school voucher schemes:
- Representative Huffman’s amendment #198 would require foreign adversaries, including state-owned companies, pay royalties to mine on U.S. public lands.
- Representative Huffman’s amendment #215 would only allow coal mining provisions to take effect if federal officials confirm coal is cost-competitive with renewable energy.
- Representative Huffman’s amendment #224 would remove royalty rate cuts for oil and gas drilling on land and offshore.
- Representative Huffman’s amendment #230 would strike Arctic Refuge oil and gas leasing provisions and replace them with the Arctic Refuge Protection Act.
- Representative Huffman’s amendment #244 would strike funding rescission for the National Park Service and Bureau of Land Management.
- Representative Huffman’s amendment #266 would limit increased logging until mature and old-growth forests on federal lands are conserved and protections are expanded.
- Representative Huffman’s amendment #459 would ensure the Bureau of Reclamation does not violate or override state law.
- Representative Huffman’s amendment #480 would strike Sec. 70411, which provides a tax credit for wealthy donors to contribute to private and religious school voucher programs.
In California’s Second Congressional District, this bill:
- Increases average premiums by $3,070 per year for the 41,000 people who receive coverage under the Affordable Care Act
- Puts 231,738 people who depend on Medicaid at risk of losing their health care
- Threatens 28,369 households who count on SNAP to put food on the table
- Takes away 5,130 jobs in clean energy and manufacturing
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Huffman.
Not the best…
Where do you find these people?
Nice try, for a third-rate politician…
I love to see these liberals kicking and screaming like this. So nice to sip coffee and watch them.
The other day I watched my friends toddler flip out and have a temper tantrum and it reminded me of these people. They’re adult toddlers, all of them.
Additionally, did anybody notice that all of his amendments do nothing more than draw money into the state through taxation and theft by means of fines? It’s like all he wants is money. Every single one of those amendments pulls money from some place but it does nothing to fix the problems that he claims are there.
Typical of these types.
It’s really sick you enjoy suffering. Something is seriously wrong with you. When u join us and you will cause your not in the billionaires club, I will not take pleasure in your suffering but give you a helping hand instead.
This sounds like a communist propaganda poster in 1918 Russia.
Actually I was just following the example of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
In the Men’s Room, right?
Coffee? Im having a large Old Fashion, with $200. bourbon.
We popped some Asti.
First bubbly since that memorable evening, November 5th of last year.
Life is good.
Huffman is just a feckless and pandering political hack.
I like to cut to the chase. “Asshole” works nicely.
Um, foreign adversaries (emhasis mine), so if they are friends they don’t need to pay? Why would you let an adversary own a mine in our country?
Our adversaries are Huffman’s friends…
Cuts $4.5 trillion in total tax reductions; adds $3.4 trillion to the national debt. Those paying the highest taxes get the largest reductions; guess who pays for the national debt? The Big Beautiful Bill will be presented to The American People, payable on receipt.
Im good with it. There is a lot of hype and BS slinging around about it. I totally trust President Trump to do right for me. Unlike slimy ol Jar Jar.
Major sell-off of federal land. The buyers are most likely lined up. A ban on states regulating AI technology for 10 years. Big beautiful nuclear/coal powered ai data fusion centers coming to a town near you! Wars and excessive spending, that wasn’t what I voted for
Oh? Wars are written into the bill? What page are they on, pray tell me?
Excessive spending is in the bill. It frontloads spending while cuts are supposed to take effect at “some point in the future.” If you have paid attention to our government, the cuts never actually happen. The expiration of the Trump tax cuts were held over the heads of everyone like a sword of damacoles. Rather than codifying the cuts in a separate bill, like should have been done, they were contingent on the passing of a bill filled with pork.
One could also argue that the $90,000,000 earmarked for Israel is war funding built into the bill. We have millions of homeless people in this country, and hundreds of thousands dying each year from drug overdoses and yet this bill sends tons of money overseas instead of keeping it here to take care of vets, homeless, and the drug problem.
I could be a snarky ass like you though and say that wars are written into page 763, section 5, paragraph 2. A statement which you wouldn’t be able to verify considering none of us have access to the full text of the bill and people like you wouldn’t read it if they did. Trump hasn’t stopped a single war. The only ones stopped are the ones that were lost, like against the Houthis in Yemen, where Trump negotiated a ceasefire only after our carriers started dumping 80 million dollar aircraft overboard while trying to avoid ballistic missile fire, or with Iran only after Iran Gaza’d Tel Aviv with hypersonic missiles and while Israel was running out of interceptors and we fired off a fifth of our total stock of THAAD interceptors in 12 days defending a country that does nothing for us. I voted for Trump 3 times, and although I concede that he is much better than Kamala, I have been less than impressed with his performance as president. Of course my expectations are high given I am more of a Rand Paul/Thomas Massie sort of guy.
Upvote not working. All this righteous arrogance from folks who support Donald Trump, the worst American president ever, who called in an assault on our Capitol over his lie about a stolen election. Who has 30,000 confirmed lies just from his first term (TIME, 7-7-2025, p.23) and is working to beat that record. What’s in it for Republicans? Destruction of American Democracy? Honorary Russian citizenship? Free tickets to The Bolshoi Ballet? You don’t see hordes of people crashing the Russian border. Turn America into a hellhole and nobody will bother us?
Trouble is, we still will have to live here. Start composing your apology letter to your descendants for what you are doing to them. Here’s a fund-raising idea. Sell T-shirts to Trump dead-enders. For a donation you can get your special shirt: THIS SHIRT DE-FUNDS RURAL HOSPITALS, THIS SHIRT COSTS LIVES, THIS SHIRT AIDS SUFFERING BILLIONAIRES. THIS SHIRT ABANDONS UKRAINE. THIS SHIRT EXPANDS THE DEFICIT. Come up with your own screw-America slogan. Have fun, while you can.
The problem is, I don’t wear shirts with lies on them. How about, JILL BIDEN LOVES POWER SO SHE LIED ABOUT JOE’S MENTAL INCOMPETENCY. Or IF YOU’RE A CITIZEN F U. IF YOU’RE A CRIMINAL ALIEN C’MON IN AND DEMOCRATS WILL TAKE CARE OF YOUR EVERY NEED.
Well now, not doing much for any of us is he? Are they? Tick tock, midterms unless Trump declares martial law and ends elections forever. Huffman is really out of touch, his priorities skewed to his cronies, not the people. I hate them all. Every. Single. One.
Well, he represents me on every issue. He must be doing something right to win every election by rather large margins
He’s the only democrat running and has Pelosi’s blessings.
In a state topheavy with bureaucrats.
Anybody care to deny that?
don’t allow loggers to log and cut in roads, burn ca. to the ground. allow no oil from alaska, sounds like a huffman jobs bill to me.
Are you OK? Trump cave on a lot of issues. So im not very happy either. But they got it passed. Lots of back room oral sex deals. But Huff and puff hates Trump and voted against my wishes. And I am a TAX paying constituent.
The politicians always put a pork filled turd of a bill between two pieces of decent cuts/tax break bread on the plate before removing the bread and serving you the turd.
Um, Huffman just gave away a thousand or so acres(of forest circus land)on the northwest county line of humboldt to the Karuk tribe, a completely separate and sovereign nation that answers to nobody but it’s own members and or the feds.
while I may not trust trump with public land, Huffman in no position to clamor about giving away the spoils of war.
Wow! Not even close to the same thing …
“Spoils of war?”
Seriously?
Um yeah.
we are told it was a war of conquest right?
that makes public land the spoils of those native vs settler wars.
and as many non whites say, the war is not over.
its important to not be naive.
hear what is being said by the people of this place and you might understand the future is not written yet
who said it was a ‘war of conquest’?
Good maybe they with set up a refinery to make $3.00 gas her in Kalifornia.
That’s not right. It was not National Forest land.
Yes it was, near confluence of the salmon and Klamath.
you may be thinking of the Yurok tribes reclamation of the blue creek watershed from a globalist timber company
Thank you for fighting for me, for the trees, for clean air & water. You are a blessing to your north coast supporters and for those too stupid to know on which side their bread is buttered too. The die is cast, but karma will come for the sycophants who betrayed their oaths and their constituents
Hear here …
Yes, thank you for your contributions to promoting the North Coast and helping the local economy to become the envy of California as a place to live and be prosperous. Wait! I mean… well?
when you buy your bread and butter with WIC money, thank a TAX payer. About half of Huffmans constituents pay TAXEs. Now you can buy some good weed at the goat store.
Huffman supports the Israeli war on Gaza and the war in the Ukraine. He’s a joke 😃
OH Jar Jar. You are so full of shit. Your telling a lot of lies right here. STFU. You are a slimmy politician who will bend any truth to suit your agenda. You did not vote for the bill so your lazy cradle to grave constituents will still vote for you. All 45000. The rest of us get our votes misplaced, so you will stay in office like Nancy and Di.
Paperbag Boomer Logic. Boomerism – grab up everything you can, either develop it to excrete every last drop of Benjamins or lock it up for their enjoyment only, and screw the future generations………Fail. Bigly. Huffer.
You mean, like the folks in D.C. are doing? Grabbing everything for themselves and their billionaire buddies and screw everyone else.
The lack of humanity, in the comments from many readers, below, is alarming.
People actually revelling in the prospect of other people suffering.
Mind blowing.
I’m surprised that those hateful comments were allowed to be published.
So many, like me, will lose their healthcare. Many will suffer and die from a lack of healthcare.
I hope Lisa and Kym will investigate further and let us know how Medicaid and Partnership will be affected.
This is catastrophic.
Only illegals will lose benefits. If you are a citizen or LPR nothing is going to change. The Democrats are liars about the whole thing.
Exactly. The lying and fearmongering have been epic.
People just need to wait and see.
Cuts to Medicaid in order to stop funding illegals, only to create a 100 billion dollar bailout fund for hospitals that serve illegals. Yips the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard. Yeah yeah, just wait and see, sort of like how you need to pass the bill to see what’s in it?
When did you me we give up our self responsibility for our health. When did we expect our government to do for us what we could not do for ourselves!?
Let this be a warning to the younger generation who ignore their health.
your future self is reliant on drugs and interventions to stay alive because you ignored your responsibility to learn from the mistakes of the previous generations.
gover is the absolute worst return on investment for those who have invested everything
Just in case the communist leftist lunatics in the Demonocrat party are swallowing hook, line and sinker this nothing but lies press release from the most ignorant, incompetent corrupt California representative, everything he says is a lie. He’s nothing but trash without even the ability to understand, much less tell the truth.
He’s nothing but trash without the trailer.
You describe Trump to a tee …
This bill was so complex I had mixed feelings about it, especially the spending. But seeing this “Blank Page” groomed professional whining about it tells me now that being in favor of it was the right choice. Huffman has no qualifications to comment on anything, he has done nothing in his life but kiss ass and conform. Did he even vote on this or did he stay home and pout like he did on Trump’s first inauguration?
What staggers me is that people actually vote for him.
That level of stupidity is mind-boggling.
Just looking at the picture of him gives me the creeps. I can feel the evil demonic vibes spewing from his every pore. There’s no question who he sold out to.
Yes- This is what it looks like when the Democratic Party throws us all under the bus. They lied and insisted President Biden was fine- even holding no primary debates because they wanted to hide his cognitive decline. The leaders of the Democratic Party wanted to push up on us a mentally deficient candidate. When that became impossible to hide anymore they anointed an extremely unqualified candidate who could not even speak plain English. Of course she was defeated. And Trump was elected. THAT is why this is happening! And Huffman went right along with them. How can anybody trust a single word coming out of this liar’s mouth? HE is the problem. HE and the rest of those crappy DEMs who truly screwed us all over. And now they tell US that they are trying to save us?!!
Spot on. The democrat party has only one goal. Stop Trump at any cost…They hate Trump more than they love their nation.
Yeah it’s weird. I’m not a suoer-fan of Trump. I can understand some reasonable criticism of his actions and policies, even share some of those. It’s reasonable to not agree fully with everything that any President does! But the extreme hype-and-scare tactics that the DEMs have decided on as their strategy is shameful and dangerous to our country. It only drives me farther away from them…They need some reasonable leaders! They cannot debate, they cannot come up with any intelligent alternatives…they just throw fear and stoke hate and divide us all further when we need to think and argue intelligently. Where are their leaders?! Hidden behind curtains….
This is probably the best answer l’ve ever heard to the question, “Why did God create evil?”
READ THIS…
Why did God create evil? The answer struck me to the core of my soul!
A professor at the university asked his students the following question:
The professor asked :
The student became silent after hearing such an answer. The professor was very pleased with himself. He boasted to students for proving once again that faith in God is a myth.
Another student raised his hand and said:
Cold does not exist. We created this word to describe what we feel in the absence of heat.
A student continued:
In the end, the young man asked the professor:
To this, the student answered:
The student’s name was Albert Einstein.
It was the Permit Pansies Farce. Come on keep your story straight or you might start to sound like Dementia Joe, is this your new story. Like the same 10-15 years of permit pansies you are adding the Evil Dems tried to hide his dementia to your story. Take a look at Trump. The man is insane, he’s selling fucking perfume and alligator hats with his supporters like Laura Loomer saying she hopes they can eat all 65 million of them latinos. If this the Dementia story is your final ring in your 3 ring circus I hope the Old Folks Home in Arcata is nice.
….and you of course, Jared Huffman, in all your imagined importance have gone to work fixing all the faults with a bill of your own, right….didn’t think so. You come from the losers bracket although you cannot lose in our county. However, I would like to remind those Humboldt folks who have not lived her for at least 40 years (because you just moved here for the Pot), we once had useful Democrats and Republicans i.e. Mike Thompson and Don Clausen who actually did things for our county and who knew who we were if they saw us on the street.
Wake us up when you actually have solutions to all of the winning Trump has been doing in his first six months in office. It takes more than word salad and denouncements of Trump’s policies before the ink has even dried to make a competent congressman. You come here occasionally to have a grandstand appearance but know nothing of who we are, and the problems we have here with our economy. Clausen and Thompson, two former congressmen knew who we were when they saw us on the street and called out our names. They also helped the economy with unique ideas and doing a little hobnobbing with their peers to get the votes.
Well enough…I had a steroid shot yesterday and could sit up all night typing my disappointment in you and the democrats in general. You keep using the same old play book but no one is buying it. I do not want our country to become a one party machine. It’s not healthy, but you democrats are simply not helping your cause. Take a month off the ranting and grandstanding and meet to see if you can come up with a leader and a purpose and a real desire to work with the other side of the aisle. If you had done that in the first place, you might not be so dissatisfied with the BBB. AND, don’t use the excuse, you weren’t asked. Mr. Mike Johnson seems a very affable fellow. I am sure if any of you had a scintilla of an idea you could have floated it past him IF you really were “for the American People”.
That was a laugh from Jeffries ridiculous attempt to filibuster so the bill couldn’t be signed on July 4th. If you had actually been for the American people, you might have won the presidency. Problem was, Donald Trump was for the American people and talked about the issues facing us. You all just sat in your comfy homes sipping mai tais with your undocumented servants and gave us word salad signifying nothing. He outsmarted you and still is doing it every.single.day. PERIOD.