District 3 Santa Clara County Supervisor Otto Lee succinctly summed up his opinion of HR1—aka President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill”—at a Sept. 18 town hall meeting at the Jose Esteves Milpitas Library. “It’s a big bill but not beautiful,” Lee said of HR1, which catalyzed massive federal budget cuts when Trump signed it into law July 4.

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