New DNC website blasts Big Beautiful Bill for ‘robbing working Washingtonians’
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- DNC launched TrumpTax.com to underscore impacts of the Big Beautiful Bill
- New law grants major tax cuts to wealthy while cutting Medicaid, SNAP benefits
- Most households receive initial tax breaks, but many expire by end of decade
The Democratic National Committee on July 16 launched a new interactive website highlighting how the One Big Beautiful Bill Act will affect everyday Americans, including in Washington state.
The site comes roughly a week and a half after President Donald Trump signed the controversial tax and policy bill into law.
“The new website includes Washington data about the Trump Tax with one underlying truth — if you’re not a billionaire, the Trump Tax will screw you over,” the DNC contends in a news release sent to McClatchy ahead of the launch.
Critics of the Big Beautiful Bill warn that its social-safety-net cuts, including to Medicaid, will harm vulnerable Washingtonians while benefiting the ultra-rich. But proponents have decried critics’ concerns of widespread health-coverage losses as “fearmongering.”
The new law extends and cements Trump’s first-term tax cuts while sending a flush of new funding to immigration enforcement and defense.
Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent has said that the bill’s tax cuts will allow average workers to keep up to $7,200 in additional annual real wages and let average families of four retain up to $10,900 in added take-home pay. And the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee says the legislation will hike the standard deduction “by up to $1,500 for working families, providing relief to 91% of American taxpayers.”
But DNC Vice Chair Shasti Conrad, who helms Washington state’s Democratic Party, told McClatchy that any middle-class tax relief is nothing compared with what the wealthy are getting. That $1,500 in tax savings will soon be eaten up by things such as medical bills and inflation, she said.
“When you are struggling, you need money in the moment, so it sounds like, ‘Great, I’m getting a tax break,’” Conrad said. “But then [Republicans] damage their lives in all these other ways that makes it so that $1,500 is absolutely nothing.”
TrumpTax.com website launch
The DNC has blasted Trump’s “Billionaire Budget Betrayal” as the president’s second term nears its six-month anniversary.
The website states that nearly 329,000 Washington residents will lose their health-insurance coverage because of the “Trump Tax.” It also says 57,000 Washington residents could potentially lose food assistance because of changes made to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
Additionally, Washington businesses have hemorrhaged an estimated $1.2 billion due to the president’s tariffs, Axios reported and the DNC underscores on the website.
The DNC says that the median Washington household will lose more than $1,300 under the Trump Tax and tariffs, but that the new law will boost incomes for the already wealthy. And the national deficit will skyrocket by $3.3 trillion, which the Democrats contend will lead to higher inflation and grocery and prescription-drug prices for regular residents.
“Donald Trump promised to lower costs on Day One, but six months into his disastrous second term, he’s robbing working Washingtonians to fund tax handouts for his billionaire backers,” DNC Chair Ken Martin said in an emailed statement.
“The Trump Tax is the largest redistribution of wealth and the largest cut to health care in Washington history.”
Tax deductions under BBB
Most U.S. households will get a tax cut next year, The Hill reports. But soon that tax-break number will drop: from roughly 85% of households in 2026 to 70% of households by the end of the decade.
Some parts of the megabill will soon sunset, as noted on the IRS’s website. For instance, a new $6,000 deduction for seniors is only effective for 2025 through 2028. Trump’s vow to nix taxes on tips and overtime has its own expiration date. The $25,000 deduction on tips and $12,500 deduction on overtime will end after 2028.
In addition, the new law lifts the cap — from $10,000 to $40,000 a year — on how much folks can deduct in local and state taxes from their federal returns, effective immediately, according to The Washington Post.
Standard deductions under the bill will raise to $15,750 for individuals and $31,500 for jointly filing married couples, and the child tax credit is going from $2,000 to $2,200 per child and adjusted annually for inflation. (The new law prohibits some non-citizens with American children from benefiting from the latter.)
WA praise, criticism of Big Beautiful Bill
State Senate Minority Leader John Braun pushed back against Washington Democrats’ ire toward the bill. He pointed out that the state Legislature’s Democratic majority just raised taxes on working Washingtonians in the 2025 session.
The Centralia Republican has also decried the Democrats’ rhetoric surrounding the federal bill’s SNAP and Medicaid effects as “fearmongering.”
Braun called new work requirements for Medicaid recipients — roughly 20 hours per week or 80 hours a month — a pretty low bar. In his view, the bill will sustain the Medicaid program’s viability in the long term by ensuring accountability and efficiency, and that’s a good thing.
As for the megabill’s tax implications?
“From a tax standpoint, that’s, I think, all good news for Washingtonians,” Braun said. “It maintains their current tax rates in place of a significant hike, it adds some stuff specifically aimed at middle-class working Washingtonians — the tip exemption, the retirement exemption, the overtime exemption are all really tightly bound. It’s just middle- and lower-income folks who qualify for that, so I think that’s a good thing.”
Invest in Washington Now, an organization that has advocated for progressive revenue, put together a fact sheet in response to the new law.
The richest 5% of Washington residents — people who take home more than $447,400 a year — are set to enjoy $7 billion in tax breaks, the group says. The wealthiest 1%, residents earning just under $1 million or more each year, will get an annual tax break of about $91,000 on average.
Executive Director Treasure Mackley says that the rich in Washington will keep getting richer while regular people will see their benefits slashed. She called it a “terrible” bill that will harm Washingtonians greatly.
“Those at the very top, they don’t need another tax break,” Mackley said. “What we need is a more fair and equitable system to make sure that all of us have what we need — and that the wealthy come to the table just like the rest of us, to pay what they owe.”
This story was originally published July 16, 2025 at 5:00 AM.
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