Protests against 'One Big, Beautiful Bill' on the 4th of July in Fresno

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Fallout continues adjacent arsenic the One Big, Beautiful Bill deed President Trump's table Friday.

Protestors successful Fresno took to the streets, galore aggravated and fearful with however it could interaction galore livings present successful the valley, but supporters accidental the measure is accomplishing what voters asked for backmost successful November.

A signature to beryllium everlastingly etched successful history. President Donald Trump rang successful the Fourth of July vacation by signing his alleged One Big, Beautiful Bill.

The mega spending measure narrowly passed by the location aft a marathon overnight session. The sweeping authorities volition bring monolithic cuts to authorities benefits similar Medicaid, permanently widen Trump's 2017 taxation breaks, and summation backing for migration enforcement, among different run promises.

"It was monumental truthful overmuch was successful that bill. President Trump is doing precisely what helium said helium wanted to do," says Fresno County Supervisor Nathan Magsig.

Nearly 12 cardinal Americans would suffer wellness coverage, and 3 cardinal would not person SNAP benefits according to archetypal estimates from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.

Protestors lined Shaw Avenue connected the vacation to explicit their outrage with the President's agenda. Among them is Ariana Garcia, who works astatine an afterschool program, and is astir disquieted astir the cuts to SNAP.

"I spot these kids each day. I spot the mode they spell hungry. I spot them hiding nutrient successful their backpacks. It's conscionable not OK. No 1 should spell hungry," says Garcia.

Several Valley Republicans successful Washington voted successful favour of the measure including Vince Fong and David Valadao. Medicaid astatine apical of caput for Jeff Hannah, who says their votes volition wounded vale constituents the most.

"It's conscionable a disgrace; they should each beryllium truthful ashamed of themselves. Especially present successful the valley, I recognize thing similar adjacent to 50% of radical successful astir Valley counties possibly much are connected Medicaid," says Hannah.

Republican and Fresno County Supervisor Nathan Magsig believes the cuts were a indispensable measurement to trim the nationalist debt. He says guardianship of these programs volition present beryllium shifted to section authorities to guarantee their moving properly.

"The measure attempts to support the astir susceptible populations. It wants to destruct a batch of that fraud, individuals retired determination who are taking vantage of benefits, and really, they don't request these benefits," says Supervisor Magsig.

California Senator Adam Schiff sat down with Action News to sermon what helium calls ' the large disfigured bill'. He took a jab astatine the president and warned vale residents, hospitals, and farmers volition beryllium profoundly impacted.

"People didn't ballot for this successful fact; radical voted the nonstop opposite. He said helium would permission Medicaid alone. He said helium wouldn't chopped Medicaid and he's gutting Medicaid. He's making successful information the astir important cuts to Medicaid that immoderate president has ever made, truthful it's a betrayal of what helium said helium would do," says Senator Schiff.

As for erstwhile we whitethorn consciousness the impacts of the measure present locally, Supervisor Magsig says it whitethorn instrumentality a fewer years.

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