On July 4, 2025, Trump signed a sweeping spending and tax bill (H.R. 1, a.k.a. “the Big Ugly Bill”) into law impacting American families across the nation, particularly low-income and immigrant families.
Millions of Californians, including hundreds of thousands of Asian American and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) in Los Angeles, will lose access to critical health and nutrition safety net programs. At the expense of American lives, the bill provides an extended tax cut for the wealthy and aggressively expands the administration’s immigration detention and deportation regime.
AAPI Equity Alliance developed a fact sheet to pinpoint the most severe consequences this bill will have on the health, safety, and wellbeing of AAPIs in Los Angeles. We urge our partners and community members to stay vigilant of when these major changes will take place, some of which are as soon as 2026.
The facts at a glance:
Health
- 1 in 4 AAPI Angelenos are covered by Medi-Cal
- 1 in 4 Angelenos enrolled in Covered California are AAPI
- AAPIs in Covered California could see net premiums increase by 74% by 2026
CalFresh
- 98,000 AAPI households in LA are at risk of losing some or all of their CalFresh benefits as early as 2026
Immigration
- 2 in 3 Asian Americans and 1 in 4 of Pacific Islanders are immigrants
- 107,000+ of the undocumented population in LA are AAPI
- 111,000+ AAPIs with legal status are living with undocumented family member(s)
- The number of Asians arrested by ICE has tripled since the start of 2025, with Californians accounting for 20% of all Asian arrests
Tax
- In 2026, AAPIs face a 1% tax when sending money back to their ancestral homelands
- AAPI households could lose $2,200 in child tax credit for their 2025 taxes.
