House minority leader visits Bellevue, blasts ‘Big Beautiful Bill’
Sep 12, 2025, 1:50 PM
U.S. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries visited Bellevue Friday morning to raise concerns about potential health care cuts under President Donald Trump’s proposed “Big Beautiful Bill.”
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Jeffries joined Rep. Suzan DelBene, Washington gubernatorial candidate Bob Ferguson, and other officials at Overlake Medical Center to warn that the plan could result in higher patient costs and the loss of coverage for more than 250,000 Washington residents.
“We will not support a partisan Republican spending bill that continues to gut the healthcare of the American people. Period. Full stop,” Jeffries said.
“Savings like these allow us to use this bill to renew the Trump tax cuts and keep Republicans’ promise to hardworking middle-class families,” Rep. Brett Guthrie of Kentucky, who spoke to The Associated Press in May, said.
He is the GOP chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee, which handles health care spending.
The proposed cuts are set to take effect Jan. 1, 2026.
Contributing: James Lynch and Frank Lenzi, KIRO Newsradio
