Fair Share America Brought the 14-State National Campaign to Colorado to Highlight the Harmful Impacts of the GOP’s Federal Budget + Tax Bill

“This bill that Congressman Evans voted for is going to make it even harder for those farm workers and food workers all across the country to be able to get that food on our table." - Xochitl Torres-Small, former Deputy Secretary of USDA at the bus event in Northglenn

“Even though the cuts phase in over time, the uncertainty hits right now.” - Colorado State Rep Jenny Willford said of the new law

“Representative Gabe Evans voted for a bill that undermines hundreds of millions of dollars in investments and thousands of clean energy jobs in his own district.” - Sierra Club Colorado Director Margaret Kran-Annexstein

Northglenn, Colorado (July 9, 2025) – This morning, Fair Share America, Unrig our Economy, and state and local partners brought the “Stop the Billionaire Giveaway” national bus tour to Northglenn to highlight the devastating impact of the federal reconciliation bill on Colorado’s families, communities, and economy.

The 45-foot tour bus, wrapped in a giant trillion-dollar bill, parked just outside of Evans’ district office to send a clear message: working families should not have to pay the price for Republicans’ tax handouts to billionaires and big corporations that Evans voted for.

“We're here to make sure that everyone knows the damn truth about what was in this bill and how they betrayed us and how they sold us out for the billionaire class,” Kristen Crowell, Executive Director of Fair Share America told the group gathered in Northglenn. “We are going to continue to organize… We are going to hold them accountable, because this is a personal fight.”

Colorado State Representative Jenny Willford (34th District) called out Congressman Evans for his vote and warned of the dire consequences already facing Coloradans:

“This isn’t just a bad bill. This is a moral failure. It is theft in broad daylight—the ultimate grift, where working families pay their fair share while the rich laugh all the way to the bank. The consequences won’t wait. Even though the cuts phase in over time, the uncertainty hits right now. States like Colorado are already being forced to make impossible choices. We cannot budget around betrayal. So let me say this clearly to Congressman Gabe Evans and every lawmaker who backed this bill: you will be held accountable.”

Adams County Commissioner Emma Pinter, spoke to how Representative Gabe Evans failed to educate himself about the magnitude of the bill’s impact on his own district:

“We know right here in Adams County that on average, 30% of our residents are on Medicaid on any given month. That’s 150,000 people. And over the course of 2024, 213,000 people have come to us at Human Services for access to medical care.

“When I’ve had the privilege—unlike most of my residents—of speaking with Congressman Gabe Evans face to face, he did not know these numbers. His staff didn’t know these numbers. They could not say how many people would be impacted.”

Xochitl Torres-Small, former Deputy Secretary of USDA, and form congresswoman from New Mexico, condemned the Trump Administration’s slashing both food security and federal disaster response:

“This is the biggest cut to food assistance since the program started in the Great Depression, and Congressman Gabe Evans voted for that cut while also adding $3 trillion to the debt and giving out tax breaks to billionaires. This is all on top of the dangerous impact this administration has already had when you look at the continued high cost of food because of tariff wars, and every day you see new disasters that no longer have a federal workforce to support.”

“My work as Deputy Secretary for USDA, for the Department of Agriculture, showed me what I knew all along, growing up as the daughter of farm workers, that the people who support built our food system on their backs are sometimes struggling to get by, and this bill that Congressman Evans voted for is going to make it even harder for those farm workers and food workers all across the country to be able to get that food on our table."

Sierra Club Colorado Director Margaret Kran-Annexstein, spoke about the new law’s $15 billion giveaway to corporate polluters at the expense of local clean energy jobs: “Representative Gabe Evans voted for a bill that undermines hundreds of millions of dollars in investments and thousands of clean energy jobs in his own district. Voters and workers, local business people, we are all watching.”

“Parkinson’s itself isn’t fatal, but without treatment the complications can get so bad that I will have trouble eating and even breathing…Without Medicare, my future is uncertain,” shared Anthony (Tony) Torres, a Denver resident and Vietnam War veteran. “I have worked hard my whole life, both serving this country and as a unionized pastor factory worker. In my retirement, I should be able to spend time with my loved ones. Instead, I’m worried about losing my health care so the rich can get richer—and me and my community get sicker.”

“I’m a young mom of two. I have a four-year-old and a two-year-old. Medicaid saved my two-year-old’s life—she’s battling a brain tumor and a cyst,” shared Genesis L., a 25-year-old Westminster mother of two and member of United for a New Economy. “Without Medicaid, I don’t know how I’d be able to pay out of pocket.”

Rebecca Miller, a former hospice nurse dressed in 1950s nursing garb to point to how far the new law takes us back: “This bill is not about reform. This is class warfare. It is a coordinated assault on the poor, the disabled and the dying.”

Jenn Ochs, a disability community advocate and member of SEIU, said Medicaid is critical to her independence: “Today, my independence depends on Medicaid—specifically home and community-based services, which we are afraid might be cut. That would force me to live in a nursing home, which is more expensive for the state and for me personally. It’s not right to cut the safety net.”

A special thanks to our event partners including: New Era Colorado, Colorado Fiscal Institute, Oxfam America, Progress Now Colorado, United for New Economy, Sierra Club Colorado Chapter

This afternoon, the bus will be in Pueblo, CO, for a 2:30 pm community event at the Rawlings Branch Library.

Follow the “Stop the Billionaire Giveaway” bus online and on social media: @FairShare_USA on X and @FairShareAmerica (FB, IG, BS, Threads, TikTok).

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