One health policy professor said cutting Medicaid and similar programs "will be devastating" to millions of Americans.

The bill includes stronger restrictions on Medicaid, which provides health care coverage to over 70 million low-income and disabled Americans, including 1.72 million Coloradans.

Elon Musk called President Trump’s spending bill the “Debt Slavery Bill” on X in June, saying it would raise the debt ceiling by $5 trillion. The debt ceiling sets the legal limit on how much money the federal government can borrow.