Macomb County households will start losing money this year under Trump’s new spending law. Here’s how much—and who let it happen

Families in Michigan’s 10th Congressional District will shoulder over $500 million in lost funding, while billionaires cash in.

In the neighborhoods of Sterling Heights and the suburbs of Warren, where public health clinics serve thousands and working families lean on safety net programs to get by, the ripple effects of a new federal law are already settling in.

On the Fourth of July, President Trump signed into law what he calls, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act”—a sweeping GOP-led spending package that delivers deep tax cuts to the ultra-wealthy, while cutting more than half a billion dollars from public programs and leaving tens of thousands of families without health care across Michigan’s 10th Congressional District.

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The trade-off was clear: tax cuts for corporations and billionaires, paid for by slashing Medicaid, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and clean-energy tax credits that kept Michigan utility costs affordable for low-income families.

In Michigan’s 10th Congressional District, home to over 750,000 residents in Southern Macomb County and the cities of Rochester and Rochester Hills in Oakland County, the projected losses total over $518 million in 2025 alone. The largest portion, about $490 million, comes from changes to Medicaid, and an additional $38.4 million in reductions to SNAP. According to policy analysts, the changes are expected to strip health coverage from an estimated 55,000 people, amounting to a $745 loss per resident.

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And the financial pain won’t stop there. According to new analysis from Energy Innovation, the law’s rollback of clean-energy tax incentives is projected to raise household utility bills by $110 per year by 2026—with rates continuing to climb through 2035. 

Critics of the new law say the legislation functions as a cost shift—away from billionaires and onto working families. For Michigan, where Medicaid expansion and clean-energy investments have underpinned economic recovery since the pandemic, the blow could be particularly destabilizing.

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The bill’s path to passage was razor-thin. On July 1, the US Senate approved the bill in a 51-50 vote, with Vice President JD Vance casting the tie-breaking vote. The legislation was then returned to the US House of Representatives, where it passed just days before Independence Day. It was signed into law by Trump shortly afterward.

Who made this possible?

Every one of Michigan’s seven Republican representatives in Congress voted to pass the tax bill, including Congressman John James, who represents the 10th District. He promoted the bill as a win for economic growth, border control and job creation—but state Democrats have criticized the vote as short-sighted and harmful to Michigan families.

“John James supports kicking half a million Michiganders off their health care, but he’s so out-of-touch that he’s now trying to gaslight voters by claiming that he’s ‘saving Medicaid,’” said Michigan Democratic Party Spokesman Derrick Honeyman in a statement. “James should be ashamed of his vote to gut Medicaid, and outside of his own delusional bubble, the facts are clear: gutting Medicaid will have disastrous consequences and hurt folks in every corner of the state.”

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While James has touted his support for veterans and economic development, his vote for a bill that cuts deeply into Medicaid—a lifeline for many low-income families, seniors, and people with disabilities in his district—has drawn backlash across the state. He also hopes to be elected governor next year.

Statewide, Michigan is projected to lose $1.1 billion per year in Medicaid funding under the new law. The state is also expected to absorb a larger share of SNAP’s administrative costs beginning in 2027, placing additional pressure on local budgets and safety net programs.

The Urban Institute, a nonpartisan research group, estimates that more than 22 million families nationwide will lose some or all of their federal benefits under the bill. In Michigan alone, analysts project between 120,000 and 160,000 households are at risk.

And in communities across Macomb County, where working-class voters once hoped for a more affordable future, the toll is already taking shape.