Blue-state leaders weigh new laws to deal with financial fallout from Trump's big bill

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Source: NBC News

July 11, 2025, 5:00 AM EDT


State lawmakers are scrambling to deal with the expected financial fallout from President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill,” with many in blue states demanding special legislative sessions they say are necessary to shore up funding for health care and food assistance programs affected by the new law.

Democratic governors in at least five states are weighing such special sessions, and Democratic lawmakers in several more are urging their governors to convene them to address expected funding shortfalls.

Trump’s law institutes steep cuts to Medicaid and food aid benefits, mostly by establishing new work requirements. It also restricts state-levied fees on health care providers that are mostly used to fund Medicaid, which 72 million people rely on for health care coverage. The federal government is also no longer responsible for reimbursing states.

The changes will have an outsized effect on people in rural areas, who are likelier to receive their health insurance through Medicaid, and the cuts especially affect the 41 states that voted to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. The law also means millions of low-income people will lose eligibility for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as food stamps, and it shifts administrative costs to states.

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[Javaman]

1. the cuts to Medicare/ACA is only part of the horror story.

built in the bill is something that will basically destroy anyone having dreams of becoming a doctor.

There is now a cap on federal student loans.

When you go to medical school (which costs a fortune), most if not all university/teaching hospitals require that students do not work, in fact many don't allow them to work at all. Studients have to live on federal loans.

Right now, the amount of loans a student needs to take out to study, not work, and solely focus on working to be a doctor, exceeds the cap that was put on those loans in the bill.

This now means, that a person can't take out enough federal loans to eat, pay their bills and house themselves when going to medical school.

Prior to the cap, it was paid all covered via federal student loans.

Now in order to cover that gap, a student has to get private loans to make up that difference; which comes at a much higher interest rate.

Those same private loans require some requirements in order to get them such as: collateral and/or a cosigner, but if you don't have that, maybe you have a rich parent or relative? No rich daddy or wealthy uncle? No stocks and bonds? You're poor? Then you are SOL.

Anyone hoping to become a doctor, who is not rich but got into a high end university due to excellent grades, you have just been completely screwed

Think of the long term implications of this. This is fucking horrifying.

Only the wealthy will get that opportunity now.