LAS VEGAS – As anti-worker members of Congress begin their summer tour to sell the “Big Beautiful Bill” scam to voters across the country, they’re facing strong pushback from Nevada workers.
A member of AFSCME Local 4041 joined pro-worker House members last week to call out the big, ugly bill’s detrimental effects on Nevadans.
AFSCME member Rosina Barrientos shared how cuts to Medicaid will deprive medically fragile children with disabilities of critical therapies and services.
“The therapies and services that these children need cost a lot of money — often thousands of dollars –– that very few families can afford out of pocket. Services that are the difference between life and death for children in need,” Barrientos said. “The cuts in this budget aren’t just irresponsible — they’re cruel.”
Nevada Rep. Steven Horsford and other pro-worker lawmakers, and local labor leaders held a press conference ahead of a Las Vegas field hearing held by the tax-writing House Ways and Means committee. They highlighted how tax cuts for billionaires is putting the health and safety of hard-working families at risk.
“If Republicans want to have a victory for their new tax scam law, Las Vegas is the last place they should be doing it,” Horsford said. “There’s one big, ugly, inconvenient truth about the Republicans’ big, ugly law. It’s a bait and switch.”
Horsford was joined by Nevada Rep. Dina Titus, and his fellow Ways and Means committee members Rep. Gwen Moore of Wisconsin, Rep. Suzan DelBene of Washington state, and Rep. Jimmy Gomez of California.
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