As the Senate works on revision’s to Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” opponents of the GOP’s budget which will cut Medicaid and SNAP by about $1 trillion to pay for massive tax cuts for the wealthy are launching a 14-state “Stop the Billionaire Giveaway” bus tour targeting key states and districts where Republican House members will be required for its final passage. Not surprisingly, Republican Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick’s office is one of the first few stops.
A rally and press conference about the congressional budget bill’s Medicaid cuts and tax breaks will be held at Brian Fitzpatrick’s office on Sunday at 2 p.m. As part of Fair Share America and Unrig Our Economy’s National Bus Tour, Pennsylvanians Together is working with Bucks County Indivisible, Yardley Indivisible, Planned Parenthood PA, MomsRising, For Our Future, and more local advocacy organizations to host the event and provide speakers such as local activists and elected officials.
After the House of Representatives voted 215-214 to pass the budget reconciliation bill on May 22, which Rep. Fitzpatrick helped to pass, the bill has now become a matter for the U.S Senate to deliberate. On June 16, the Senate Finance Committee released their budget reconciliation text which kept provisions that would cut Medicaid spending by $800 billion, and even added more provisions on work requirements and lowering health care provider taxes.
For the Bucks County stop of the tour, Dwayne Heisler, Campaign Director for Pennsylvania Policy Center, said they’re hoping to have “Mr. Riggs,” a giant inflatable cat wearing a top hat, smoking a cigar, and sitting on a stack of bills.
“Overwhelmingly, people do not want their tax dollars going to billionaires,” Heisler said. “At a time when things are so expensive, and it’s hard to get health care, and it’s hard to put food on the table, they’re cutting those very services in order to provide tax breaks for the wealthiest among us.”
In 2025, 90,763 people in Bucks County – 14 percent of the population – were enrolled in Medicaid. The House Budget Resolution’s proposed $880 billion cuts to Medicaid in February, according to estimates from the Center for American Progress, would have caused Pennsylvania’s first congressional district to lose $1.31 billion in Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program funding over 9 years.
“Medicaid is a safety net program. If you lose your job, lose your insurance, or have a terrible accident that causes you to become disabled, that’s what it’s there for,” Heisler said. “Our elected leaders are taking away our safety net, and they’re taking that money and giving it to billionaires.”
When the bill is called to a vote on the Senate floor, only three republicans can vote against it for it still to be passed. Multiple Republican senators have voiced opposition to certain cuts in the bill, including Josh Hawley and Rand Paul. Senator Ron Johnson, per ABC, has said he’s not supporting it “at this point.”
The tour starts in New York and will end up in California after making stops in New Jersey, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Missouri, Colorado, Arizona, and Nevada.
The full swing through Pennsylvania includes 6 stops:
Sunday, June 22
- 11AM – Philadelphia City Hall
- 2PM – Rep. Fitzpatrick’s Office parking lot, 1717 Langhorne Newtown Rd, Langhorne
Monday, June 23
Tuesday, June 24
Learn more about the Stop the Billionaire Giveaway Bus Tour at bus.fairshareusa.org.
