The Big Ugly Bill Impacts on Americans

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• Future SNAP allotments can never rise faster than CPI, even if food prices or dietary guidance change.
• Cuts real benefits for every family over time, hitting low-income grocery demand in VA-02.
• Locks in the 2025 market basket; USDA may review it only once every five years and must keep it “cost-neutral.”

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• Freezes the percentage multipliers for 5-person families and up, so large households never fully catch up with inflation.
• Particularly harms multigenerational and Latino families common in Hampton Roads.

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• Adults 60-64 must now meet job-search hours or lose SNAP.
• Local food banks expect demand spikes among near-retirees.

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• State can waive the 3-month time-limit only if the county jobless rate tops 10 % (was 8 %).
• Eastern-Shore farm-worker counties lose flexibility during seasonal layoffs.

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• No more rebates for shore-power, e-yard tractors, or Tier 4 cranes at International Terminals.
• Increases diesel-soot exposure for dockworkers and neighbors.

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• Eliminates 45 % federal rebate that Tidewater produce haulers used for new low-NOx tractors.
• Small fleets must shoulder full upgrade costs.

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This one-sentence clause quietly strips federal judges of the dollars they need to police disobedience to their own injunctions or temporary restraining orders whenever the plaintiff could not afford or the judge declined to require a monetary security bond under Rule 65(c). In practice:

• Invitations to ignore court orders. Corporations, agencies, or officials who lose a preliminary injunction can thumb their noses at it knowing the court lacks funds to enforce contempt until a bond is posted.
   
• Harder for everyday Virginians to defend their rights. Public-interest, civil-rights, labor, and environmental plaintiffs often receive fee waivers precisely because they lack resources; this provision tilts the scales toward deep-pocket defendants.
   
• Judicial efficiency and respect erode. Courts must rely on their contempt power to ensure compliance; blocking the purse for that power undermines rule-of-law and clogs dockets with relitigation.

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• No more cost-share for retrofitting tractors, combines, or irrigation pumps.
• State DEQ loses its largest on-farm air-quality grant stream.

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• County health departments lose small-grant pool for PM-monitors near schools, plants, and highways.

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• No HVAC-upgrade help for aging school buildings; indoor-air projects compete for local bonds instead.

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• Community banks & electric co-ops lose $20 B pool for low-interest solar and digester loans.
• On-farm energy projects stall.

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• No DOE technical help or grants for farm-scale microgrids and cold-storage electrification.

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• Dairy & swine digesters lose new federal cost-share and bonus credits for captured gas.
• Pipeline firms no longer pay emissions-based fees that funded ag methane projects.

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• Cuts smart monitors & remote-sensing upgrades that find illegal stack emissions.

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• Small brick, cement, lumber mills lose grants to certify low-carbon products for federal buyers.

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• Corporations may keep using outdated greenhouse-gas inventory methods; investors lose transparency.

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• Builders lose forthcoming label that would have rewarded Virginia timber and recycled-steel.

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• Grass-roots EJ groups lose $3 B in competitive grants for asthma reduction, lead removal, etc.

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• Wipes out stronger 2027-32 tailpipe standards; slows adoption of cleaner pickups and SUVs.

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• Blocks NHTSA from finalizing tougher 2030+ mileage targets, locking in higher fuel costs for consumers.

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• States lose federal match on any puberty-blocker or surgery for patients <18.
• Hospitals must carve out such care or absorb the cost.

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• Marketplace insurers must drop coverage or move it to rider policies; raises out-of-pocket cost.

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• States can’t levy fresh hospital or nursing-home taxes to draw federal matching funds, squeezing rural-hospital budgets.

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• Any state expanding after Jan 1 2026 loses extra federal cash, discouraging hold-out states.

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• Exchange can no longer open broad special-enrollment periods tied solely to income.
• Low-income consumers who miss the six-week annual window may remain uninsured for a year.