Multiple Indivisible groups issued the following media advisory today to pressure CD-3 House Rep. Jeff Hurd to vote against convicted felon President Trump’s One Big, Terrible tax bill. The bill is controversial because it preserves tax cuts enjoyed by the nation’s wealthiest citizens and corporations that were first enacted in 2017 in Trump’s first term, despite the fact that the country deeply in debt and starved for revenue. To continue these irresponsible tax cuts, the bill makes massive cuts to Medicaid, which Trump repeatedly said he would not do. The bill is expected to throw hundreds of thousands of Coloradans off their health care. It also cuts funding for education and nutritional benefits for the poor and eliminates funding for sustainable energy, potentially raising energy costs. If the bill passes, the consequences for U.S. healthcare, and especially rural hospitals, are expected to be dire. Community Hospital in Grand Junction may have to cut services or could even be forced to close.
Hurd’s district has the highest rate of Medicaid enrollment in the state, at 31% of its residents.
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MEDIA ADVISORY
July 2, 2025
Sit-In at Rep. Hurd’s Grand Junction Office to Protest the Republican Tax Scam
Grand Junction, Colo. (July 2, 2025) – Residents of Colorado’s Congressional District 3 will be staging a sit-in at Representative Jeff Hurd’s Grand Junction Office on July, 2, 3, and 4 from 8:00 am to 8:00 pm each day. Their goal is to pressure Rep. Hurd to vote NO on the budget reconciliation bill, H.R.1.
“Republicans in Congress are selling us out to help billionaires like Elon Musk get even richer,” said Mallory Martin of Indivisible Grand Junction. “Their tax-scam budget bill includes trillions of dollars in cuts to SNAP, Medicaid, and other essential programs in order to fund more than $4.5 trillion dollars in tax cuts to the ultra rich and big corporations. We’re showing up in person at Rep. Hurd’s office to urge him to do the right thing and vote NO on this shameful and destructive bill.”
WHAT: Sit-In at Rep. Hurd’s Office to Protest the Republican Tax Scam
WHO: Grand Junction Indivisible, Montrose & Ouray Counties Indivisible, Mountain Action Indivisible, and CD3 constituents
WHEN: Wednesday through Friday, July 2-4, 8:00 am – 8:00 pm
WHERE: Rep. Hurd’s office at 743 Horizon Ct, Suite 112, Grand Junction
CONTACT: Mallory Martin 970-433-6577
mallory@indivisiblegrandjunction.org
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This event is being organized by Indivisible Grand Junction, Montrose & Ouray Counties Indivisible, and Mountain Action Indivisible. A core principle behind all Indivisible events is a commitment to nonviolent action.
Way to go voting in favor of this, Jeff . . . not! 3 Trillion added to the debt in the next decade? Not so much “tax relief” for the lower income classes, but a heckuva lot to the wealthiest? Eliminating USAID to the detriment of millions of children worldwide who are blameless except for needing basic food and healthcare; not to mention earning continued political goodwill from the U.S??? Huge cuts to SNAP and Medicaid? Oh sure, just needing more paperwork that many of those have tried to fill out or deliver online, despite so many office closings??? Kids in poor and distressed families will eventually find something to eat, right? Sure – rural hospitals aren’t needed anymore right??? Certainly there is so much”fraud” in the “system” that doesn’t require fair reimbursement for various treatments, and states can take of that and fill in as needed, yes? And yep: a “quota” of at least 3,000 arrests & deportations per day, despite that so many of our *crucial* and blameless seasonal workers having been waiting for adjudication and legal disposition. I wonder, Jeff: have you ever contributed or volunteered at Food Bank of the Rockies and witnessed what’s been going on throughout the Western Slope? Your campaign rhetoric surely rings hollow today . . . Geez .
I’m sorry!
I have volunteered in Mesa County and what I have seen is many, many well paid professionals dedicated to providing services to the poor and indigent. In fact, many services are redundant. At times I thought that social services were meant to serve the social workers. But that’s probably an exaggeration.
No one questions our often ineffective largess until we figure out we’re going broke.
And too often the answer to that problem is “tax the rich”!
I’m in favor of taking a hard look at all of these programs to see if they’re actually doing what they are supposed to do. In the case of Medicaid, there’s some speculation that the states are manipulating so they get more matching funds.
There’s a reason they call addressing “welfare” as the third rail. It’s because any politician who touches it will suffer the consequences .
I am under no illusion that much of this will get fixed soon but it does set a trend towards spending taxpayer funds wisely.
As far as seasonal workers…there is supposed to be an orderly process by which farmers can hire. That should be enforced and expanded if necessary. Ceasar Chavez was against illegal migration because he saw it affected the workers he worked so hard to organize.
You are confused. Paychecks dont “tax” anything. They “withhold” depending on the employee’s instructions on form W-4.
It all gets settled at tax time.
I’m not sure what you’re arguing about here. At tax time people will deduct the amount they got in tips and overtime from the amount their employer reported to the IRS (W-2) and pay income tax on the remainder.
I’m guessing that employers will still have to report on the dollar value of the tips and overtime and there are some limits
I don’t know about the increase in state taxes which you say resulted from the 2016 tax cut and that would be on the states.
I do know that state and local taxes were not deductible, but that has been reinstated (I think). And the standard deduction was increased to a level such that most people didn’t have to itemize. I think that still holds.
Keep up, harry. Currently, overtime pay is taxed the same as regular wages, meaning a percentage is withheld. I didn’t realize that needed to be spelled out. Under the new law, overtime pay would not be subject to that withholding. However, at tax time, overtime pay will be included in your overall taxable income, not deducted from it. You are assuming it will work like tips, and from what I have read that is not the case.
As for the state tax issue, I don’t remember the specifics but my wife is a tax prep. She saw a lot of people who had to pay more to the state because the federal tax changed.
You are using the term “withholding” improperly.
Withholding is what you authorize your employer to take out of your check to send to the IRS until tax time. Some people like to fool themselves into thinking they’re getting a refund, so they max out withholding.
If you are referring to taxable income…until now, tips were taxable, but not anymore. But I’m sure they will be included on the W2 and it will be up to the taxpayer to deduct that amount. As always, there are limits and restrictions.
Overtime will be included in your taxable income as well and it will be up to the taxpayer to find out how his income tax liability is affected….again lots of limits and restrictions.
I do my own taxes and I’ve never seen anything on the state form which refers to federal taxes…although the state does want you to submit your federal forms when you file.
I’ll have to look into it.
As I recall, the previous tax bill changed the reporting amount for Federal, lowering the federal tax burden but increased the amount taxed by state. Many people were caught by surprise when their state tax was significantly higher than they expected.
Again, I’m interested in finding out why and how this happened.
I’ve been looking.
“People say” a lot of stuff.
Ok, my wife got home from work and refreshed my memory.
The last Trump tax bill eliminated the standard exemptions by person, which increased the Federal taxable income. It also doubled the standard deduction which compensated somewhat for that increase.
Colorado determines its tax by starting with the Federal taxable income. Since that was increased, state income tax increased as well, which came as a surprise to a lot of taxpayers.
Interesting. I know about the standard deduction being increased.
So by eliminating the standard deduction by person that number resulted in increasing the Federal taxable income reported to the state of Colorado.
Talk about the law of unintended consequences!
You change one thing over here and that changes something over there.
When I was looking this up it was suggested that states could adjust. But why would they if they get more revenue?
From Politifact:
“No, Trump couldn’t delay, cancel elections if GOP ‘big beautiful bill’ becomes law”
At times you have seemed too smart to believe such nonsense, but I’m thinking as time goes on and Trump’s successes add up, your ability to handle cognitive
dissonance is faltering.
As I have said, the only real cure for this is to identify and support a Democrat you want to be president in 2029.
Good Luck!
Ok, you’re apparently right about this. I didn’t check before posting.
However, given that he has a history of ignoring the law, and even the Constitution (i.e. due process), when it is inconvenient I would still not be surprised if he tries to postpone an election, and I have little hope the current GOP Congressmen/women or the Supreme Court would have the courage to stop him. I hope I’m wrong.
“OK you’re right but still..
I didn’t happen to notice that all the sites that made this claim were rabidly partisan and besides, I’m prone to belive this stuff.”
You need to look at who is telling you the stuff that you buy into, particularly when you accuse others of being deluded and brainwashed (me).
I look forward to your intellectual evolution. It could happen.
This will all be forgotten in a week when you come up with another outrage to get upset about. Just stay tuned to Indivisible for further instructions.
I can pay my own bills but thanks for your concern.
PS. Just one more thing that probably won’t land well..
Have you ever considered that if we hadn’t let millions of illegal migrants into our country, provided food and housing and plane rides and schools and health care and funded NGOs to help them navigate our pesky immigration laws…not to mention the cost of police and deportation…we might have all the money we need to fund Medicaid and SNAP and all the other federal programs we feel entitled to?
So, I guess you’ve given up saying “this bill gives tax cuts to the wealthy” to
“retains taxes cuts to the wealthy” but you leave out the part about retaining the tax cuts is for everyone.
If one is to extrapolate from there, I guess you would say that taxes should be raised on the rich so we can fund stuff like Medicaid. Fat chance.
But then Mallory says there are going to be 4.5 TRILLION in tax cuts for the rich and famous! (I hope she remembered to make an appointment.)
This messaging is so all over the place that only the most rabid Trump haters could swallow it.
No one knows what this bill is going to do yet. Remember Pelosi? “We have to pass the bill before we know what’s in it”
I hope at least you can give poor Jeff credit for voting against the federal land sale scheme.
And congratulations on posting such a flattering picture of Congressman Hurd.
🙂
Yes, we do know what’s in it. They read the whole thing on the Senate floor, remember?
It gives Trump the ability to cancel elections. It stops overtime from being taxed on your paychecks, but adds the extra pay to your taxable income on your W-2 so you still have to pay tax on it, just not right away.
And it will result in millions of Americans losing their healthcare.
But keep on handwaving it all away.
Are you a creationist, by any chance? You’re just the kind of gullible rube they are looking for.
Harry has two stances he takes on Trump’s words and actions:
1. He likes it openly, and crows about how it “triggers the Liberals”, or
2. He claims not to like it, because it’s something so vile and indefensible that even he can’t defend it, but he makes sure to point out that he likes that it “triggers the Liberals”.
He’s basically an aged version of Nelson Muntz, without the basic human dignity and introspection.
I’d love to be a fly on the wall when harry realizes that Liberal tears won’t pay his bills or replace his “entitlement” benefits that were cut by his cult leaders.
From what I am reading, tips will be deductible from one’s wages
when one files their federal taxes. This does not apply to state and local taxes.
Maybe you were in the bathroom when they read that part.
We still don’t know how these cuts will affect people’s health care. From what I’m reading, there’s a lot to double dipping to be fixed at the state level.
We really didn’t know how the ACA would affect our health care until Sibelius and her merry band of beaurocrats got a hold of it. Even Obama thought if we liked our insurance we could keep it. ( is he a creationist?)
You really don’t have a clue how any of this works, do you?
Nice try at changing the subject. I was talking about overtime, not tips. Two different things.
And the usual “whataboutism” rather than adressing the acxtual subject. Typical.
I’d assume overtime would be handled similarly. But I’ll look it up.
“The “No tax on tips” and “No tax on overtime” proposals would allow eligible employees to deduct qualified tips and overtime pay from federal taxable income for 2025–2028, but Social Security and Medicare taxes still apply. Withholding and employment tax obligations remain unchanged.”
I just used the ACA as a demonstration to illustrate how the system works because you are apparently unaware.
You’re really running out of steam. You should take a vaca.
You assume a lot of things that aren’t valid.
From what I read, overtime will not be taxed on your paycheck, but would be included in your overall taxable income at tax time. So you would have to pay taxes on it then. Sounds a lot like the last Trump tax plan where it lowered Federal Tax, but increased state taxes. That caught a lot of people off guard.