Shame on Reps. Julie Fedorchak and Michelle Fischbach for voting for the “big, beautiful bill.” Shame on North Dakota Sens. John Hoeven and Kevin Cramer for praising the bill and promising to support it. This bill is big, but it sure isn’t beautiful. It’s ugly. It’s also cruel.

What Fedorchak, Fischbach, Hoeven and Cramer are supporting is a mean plan to help the wealthy and seriously harm the poor and the needy. Under this bill, millions of Americans would lose their Medicaid and nutrition assistance. Many of them are children or people with disabilities. These four legislators want to take away medical care and food from those who need it the most.

It’s heartless. It’s inhumane. Do people not matter because they are poor?

This bill would also be devastating to rural hospitals, of whic

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