Less than 24 hours before the House voted on Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act—a multitrillion-dollar tax and spending package that would strip Medicaid from millions of Americans—the tragic news broke that Democratic Rep. Gerry Connolly had died. Connolly’s colleagues were bereft—in a town where the personal and the political are often inseparable, the longtime Virginia congressman was genuinely beloved by his peers. But there was also no escaping the grim calculus of the vote count. Connolly was the third Democratic member to die in office this year, following Reps. Raúl Grijalva and Sylvester Turner in March. In the end, the Big Beautiful Bill passed by a single vote.