Researchers at Yale, UPenn say Trump's tax bill would lead to 51,000 deaths

Public health and policy researchers at Yale University and the University of Pennsylvania sent a letter to Senate leaders this week warning that provisions in President Donald Trump's "big, beautiful bill" could lead to more than 51,000 deaths per year if passed.

The federal budget bill has already passed through the House of Representatives — but not without resistance on both sides of the aisle.

The letter from the universities presented science-based projections of the human toll of eliminating key health protections, such as mass insurance losses and cuts to nursing home standards.

The bill passed by the House would result in 7.7 million people losing health care coverage through Medicaid or the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which the universities said would result in 11,300 deaths.