Senate Majority Leader John Thune, accompanied by Sens. John Barrasso and Mike Crapo, speaks to reporters after the Senate passes President Donald Trump’s agenda package at the US Capitol on July 1, 2025. Andrew Harnik / Getty Images

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Here’s how Trump’s megabill will affect you

Analysis by Zachary Wolf and Tami Luhby, CNN, 10 minute read

Published 3:23 PM EDT, Tue July 1, 2025 CNN  — 

Seniors, students, taxpayers, children, parents, low-income Americans and just about everyone else will be affected by the massive tax and spending bill being hashed out in real time on Capitol Hill.

Republicans call it President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” but there have been several versions. The latest passed the Senate on Tuesday with Vice President JD Vance’s tie-breaking vote.

Senate Republicans’ version of the bill differs in key ways from what the House passed in May. Both chambers will ultimately have to pass the same version to send the package to Trump’s desk by his desired July Fourth deadline.

But the general contours of the massive piece of legislation are known. It extends Trump’s first-term tax cuts, funds his vision for a border wall, and offsets some of that revenue loss and additional spending with cuts to federal support for the social safety net that helps Americans afford food and health insurance.

Here’s what we know about how the Senate bill will affect …

… people on Medicaid: millions will lose coverage

For many Medicaid enrollees, the biggest impact would be the new work requirement. Certain able-bodied Americans ages 19 to 64 who are enrolled through the Medicaid expansion would have to work, volunteer, attend school or participate in job training at least 80 hours a month. The mandate would also apply to parents of children ages 14 and older.

Read more from Tami Luhby here.

In addition, expansion enrollees would have their eligibility reviewed more frequently and would have to pay up to $35 for certain care.

Overall, Medicaid enrollees could face other changes, since states would receive less federal funding for the program. This could force some states to eliminate certain benefits or tighten enrollment, among other alterations.

Plus, many enrollees would face more paperwork and verification requirements, which could make it harder for some to apply for and maintain their benefits. The bill would delay the implementation of some provisions in two Biden administration rules aimed at streamlining enrollment and renewing coverage.

Nearly 12 million more people would be uninsured in 2034, with many of them losing coverage because of the Medicaid provisions in the bill, according to a Congressional Budget Office analysis published Sunday, before subsequent changes to the bill that the Senate ultimately passed.

Workers with the Service Employees International Union rally outside the US Capitol on June 26 in Washington, DC.Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images

… people who need help affording food: fewer will get it

More Americans who receive food stamps would have to work to keep their benefits. The bill would broaden the existing work mandate to enrollees ages 55 to 64 and parents of children ages 14 and older, as well as to veterans, former foster youth and people experiencing homelessness.

Enrollees in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as SNAP, the formal name for food stamps, may also face other changes: Many states would also have to cover part of the benefit costs for the first time and pay more of the administrative costs, both of which may force them to tighten benefits, cut eligibility or make other alterations, including potentially withdrawing from the safety-net program. Also, the growth of food stamp benefits would be limited in the future.

Read more from Tami about an earlier iteration of the Senate bill’s food stamp changes here.

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