Reps. Huffman, Thompson join fellow Democrats in criticizing Trump’s tax cut and policy bill

Fallout from the historic legislation, which enacts deep cuts in taxes and Medicaid spending, while increasing military and border protection budgets, could play into Democrats’ hands in taking back the House in 2026, Huffman said.

July 03, 2025

Rep. Jared Huffman returned a call Thursday afternoon from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

If Huffman, a Democrat from San Rafael, sounded a little bleary, it was because he’d put in an all-nighter at the Capitol, where the House of Representatives was in a marathon session weighing the fate of President Donald Trump’s domestic policy legislation, with a House version stretching to 887 pages.

“Zombies,” he said, describing the general state of fellow lawmakers he was seeing at the airport on their way home.

“This has been an odyssey in every way, including adventures in sleep deprivation,” he said.

The odyssey for Democrats was an unsuccessful quest in the end to derail Trump’s so-called “big, beautiful bill,” which won passage in the House earlier on Thursday, 218-214, with two GOP members voting no.

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By:  Austin Murphy
Source: The Press Democrat