One Year Ago: Biggs and Schweikert Are Defending the Partisan Budget That Raised Costs for Arizona Families

Tomorrow marks one year since Andy Biggs and David Schweikert signed onto the disastrous, cost-hiking GOP budget bill that made life more expensive for Arizona families — driving up healthcare costs and ripping away meals, all to hand billionaires a tax break.

One year later, Arizona families are still footing the bill. Biggs called the DC budget a “good thing” and has pushed for “the more cut approach,” and Schweikert bragged about personally co-writing this “historic” bill that drove up Arizona’s cost of living.

Copper State Victory spokesperson Nicholas Simões Machado said:

“One year ago, Andy Biggs and David Schweikert chose to rip healthcare from Arizona families, spike premiums, and take food off the table, just so billionaires could get another tax break. Arizonans are paying the price every single day, from the grocery aisle to the doctor’s office — and Andy Biggs and David Schweikert are the reason why.” The consequences of Biggs and Schweikert's vote continue to impact Arizona families:

• Monthly healthcare premiums increased 30 percent after Biggs and Schweikert voted to strip tax credits away from 400,000 Arizonans, yet both Biggs and Schweikert voted against bipartisan efforts to reverse the damage and lower costs.
  

• Biggs and Schweikert’s partisan budget threatened healthcare coverage for 365,000 Arizonans, closing 8 healthcare clinics, and putting an additional 8 rural hospitals at risk of closure.
  

• More than 400,000 Arizonans, including about 180,000 children, lost lifesaving food assistance because of Biggs and Schweikert, “the largest decline in the nation by a wide margin.”
  

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