With less than a week left until a special election in Santa Clara County, West Valley cities are negotiating how to handle the effects of federal budget cuts from HR1, aka President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill.”

After Trump signed HR1 on July 4, it was reported that Santa Clara County would lose more than $1 billion in federal funding in the next five years. A majority of the county’s budget goes toward providing health services. In Santa Clara County, 465,000 residents rely on Medicaid and 133,000 get food assistance through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. Almost $1 trillion was cut from Medicaid, which is the primary source for the county’s hospital system.

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