{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://sewell.house.gov/2025/5/rep-sewell-votes-no-on-the-trump-tax-bill", "Rep. Sewell Votes NO on the Trump Tax Bill", "2025-05-22", "2025", "2025-05", "Democrat", "House", "AL", "Terri A. Sewell", "S001185", "sewell.house.gov", "sewell", "https://sewell.house.gov/press-releases", "scraper", "Washington D.C. \u2013 Today, U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell (AL-07) voted against President Trump\u2019s tax bill, which inflicts devastating cuts to the programs that Alabama families rely on and will add $5 trillion to the national debt.\n\n\u201cThe Trump Tax Bill, which passed the House today, is nothing more than a $4.5 trillion tax giveaway to big corporations and wealthy individuals at the expense of America's working families,\u201d said Rep. Sewell. \u201cThe bill will kick 13.7 million Americans off of Medicaid and cut $300 billion from SNAP benefits for hungry families.\u201d\n\n\u201cThese drastic cuts to Medicaid and nutrition assistance are the largest in history and represent an outrageous betrayal of our values as Americans,\u201d continued Sewell. \u201cAlabama families shouldn\u2019t be forced to foot the bill for Trump\u2019s billionaire tax cuts. I voted NO.\u201d\n\nWatch Rep. Sewell\u2019s floor remarks on the Trump tax bill during debate here.\n\nCuts over $700 billion from Medicaid, threatening 176,181 Alabamians in AL-07 and the healthcare providers that serve them. This includes 121,745 children and 23,000 seniors.\n\nGives a $20 billion tax windfall to wealthy donors of private school voucher schemes that divert precious resources from our public schools.\n\nMakes it harder and more expensive to get coverage through the ACA Marketplace, taking healthcare from an estimated 17,700 people in AL-07 and increasing costs for the 55,000 people in our district who have coverage through the ACA, amounting to a $510 annual hole in their household budgets and a 66% increase in premiums.\n\nSlashes the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which helps put food on the table for 197,000 people in AL-07. This amounts to the largest cut to nutritional assistance in American history.\n\nCuts the Community Eligibility Provision, threatening 100,290 children who rely on free school lunches.\n\nCuts essential funding for Pell Grants, which would jeopardize the futures of 24,913 students in AL-07 who rely on Pell Grants to afford their education.\n\nAll while giving $1.1 trillion in tax giveaways to people making more than $500,000 a year.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T00:49:36Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://sewell.house.gov/2025/5/rep-sewell-votes-no-on-the-trump-tax-bill"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 2.454813104122877, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}