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by Marion Nestle
Sep
4
2025
The effects of Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act on income distribution: Shockingly unfair
I’ve been collecting graphs on the likely effects of President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act (shades of Orwell’s 1984) on income distribution in the United States. Here are two examples to ponder.
From the Congressional Budget Office:
From The Budget Lab at Yale and Paul Krugman’s Substack
From Tax Policy Center and Penn-Wharton Budget Model (also via Paul Krugman)
These make the effects of the bill crystal clear. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer.
The losers? Everyone else, but especially those at the very bottom of the income distribution.
This is what Americans voted for?
And at a time when the bill cuts funding for federal food assistance programs like SNAP?
Will this Make Americans Healthy Again?
I don’t think so.