"Big Beautiful Bill" a raw deal for Montanans
Northern Plains Resource Council is a 3,000-member grassroots conservation and family agriculture organization which was founded by Montana farm and ranch families in 1972. Northern Plains sent a letter to Montana’s congressional delegation last week citing concerns with H.R. 1, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” currently before the Senate.
Northern Plains’ executive officers have requested a meeting with Senators Daines and Sheehy as well as Representatives Zinke and Downing to ensure that the delegation understands the on-the-ground impacts of the current bill draft to Montanans, especially those in rural communities.
Northern Plains believes that our country has never seen a bill of this size and severity introduced in the past, and Montanans of all backgrounds will experience deep impacts. It will radically undermine our rural hospitals and reduce health insurance coverage, take Montana’s growing and job-creating clean energy industry out at the knees, result in the loss of protections and public participation for projects that impact the land and water relied on by farmers and ranchers, and result in nine-million Americans losing access to food stamps, all while increasing our budget deficit by an estimated $2.3 trillion, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
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