JUST IN – U.S. Senate passes Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" with Vice President Vance breaking the tie. pic.twitter.com/CWBYD0QKfJ
— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) July 1, 2025
3 adjectives for how Americans feel about the Big Beautiful Bill: awful, horrible, & to quote Sir Charles Barkley "terrible, terrible, terrible".
— (((Harry Enten))) (@ForecasterEnten) June 30, 2025
Net favorables of the bill range from -19 pt to -29 pt in June polls.
49% say the bill will hurt their family. 23% say it'll help. pic.twitter.com/W97mcc4ZXJ
I am massively oversimplifying here, so free to yell at me, but doing my best w/ imperfect information here is roughly how I'd try to break down the massive Senate tax bill to a friend:
— Jeff Stein (@JStein_WaPo) July 1, 2025
1. Extending/increasing prior GOP tax cuts w/ broad reach (larger standard deduction; raises…
Tillis: What do I tell 663,000 people in two years, three years, when President Trump breaks his promise by pushing them off of medicaid because the funding's not there anymore, guys?
— Acyn (@Acyn) June 30, 2025
The people in the White House advising the president, they're not telling him that the effect… pic.twitter.com/MhJAdPg4OA
REPORTER: Do you have concerns about the Medicaid cuts though?
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 1, 2025
TRUMP: No. We're not gonna be playing with Medicaid
REPORTER: 11.8 million Americans could lose their coverage. Are you breaking your promise?
TRUMP: Waste, fraud, and abuse pic.twitter.com/1fFEiUgbXk
?BREAKING: Marjorie Taylor Greene just announced on the Steve Bannon show that Trump's Big Bullshit Bill doesn't have enough votes in the House.
— CALL TO ACTIVISM (@CalltoActivism) July 1, 2025
“This is far from over… I can’t imagine [it passing].. Johnson does NOT have the votes.”
She even called it "a shitshow." pic.twitter.com/V9RknCo4eP
Scalise: "The 35-year-old who's sitting in his mom's basement playing video games is gonna have to go get a job again." pic.twitter.com/Bin5giWID0
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 1, 2025
Markwayne Mullin: "There are 35 million people that live below the poverty line inside the US. There are over 70 million people signed up for Medicaid. Now you're gonna tell me there's not room to make cuts?" pic.twitter.com/bCq7ZSkGxL
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 30, 2025
Jim Banks on Medicaid cuts: "Let's make sure that people who are able-bodied go to work every day and don't get things for free." pic.twitter.com/u79jJWxfrK
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 30, 2025
TAPPER: “Are you guaranteeing that these changes that you are voting for Monday presumably will not hurt recipients in Alabama of Medicaid, of food stamps or SNAP, for those who are citizens and for those who truly need it and deserve it?”
— State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) June 29, 2025
BRITT: “Absolutely.” pic.twitter.com/BJ0Plkmcic
It should be called the Big Beautiful Political Disaster.
Yes, I know we should be celebrating the Republican Senate passing this bill as a win which will fund all kinds of immigration priorities, but it comes at the steep cost of being politically toxic due to making business tax cuts permanent and cutting popular entitlement programs like Medicaid. It is like a birthday cake that tastes delicious on some level, but which is ultimately poisonous.
“It was the exact opposite of what nearly everyone on Capitol Hill expected.
Rather than soften its edges, Senate Republicans took the sprawling Republican megabill the House sent them and sharpened it further, making the heart of President Donald Trump’s legislative agenda more politically explosive. …
This time, Senate Republicans were dead-set on making an expensive suite of pro-growth business tax cuts permanent. That required finding deep offsetting cuts, and the cold, hard calculus by the Senate GOP’s chief architects was that enough of their 53-member conference would ultimately swallow their protests and go along. …
To compensate, Finance Committee Republicans significantly dialed back some of Trump’s marquee campaign promises to enact tax relief for tipped wages and overtime work. Many of those senators privately scoffed that the populist tax policies were not particularly pro-growth, as opposed to the write-offs for business equipment and research and development expenses. …”
As usual, the immigration provisions for Trump voters are a small part of the “Big Beautiful Bill,” which is otherwise a glorified Omnibus of unpopular tax cuts and entitlement cuts.
“Washington — Republicans plan to slash Medicaid funding to help offset the tax cuts and new spending included in President Trump’s massive domestic policy bill. There are some differences between the approaches taken by Senate and House Republicans, making Medicaid among the most divisive issues lawmakers have had to navigate in recent months. …
About 71 million Americans are enrolled in Medicaid, according to the government’s most recent data. According to a Congressional Budget Office report published late Saturday, the changes to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act in the Senate version would result in an increase of nearly 12 million more uninsured people by 2034.
The House-passed version would leave slightly fewer without health insurance — nearly 11 million — by 2034, mostly due to cuts to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act, the CBO estimated earlier in June.
The Senate version makes $930 billion in cuts over a decade to Medicaid, Medicare and the Affordable Care Act, according to the CBO. The House-passed bill includes nearly $800 billion in cuts …”
I think it will end up passing in some form.
I don’t know if the Republican House has the votes to swallow the Senate bill.
I predict the Big Beautiful Disaster will play out like the 2018 midterms when budget reconciliation was used to pass the Trump tax cuts in 2017. From that point forward, the Democrats ran on “tax cuts for the rich” and defined the midterms as being as a referendum on healthcare and won. Democrats are already succeeding in branding the Big Beautiful Disaster as a Medicaid bill, not an immigration bill.
Note: I wish I could say that I am surprised, but Senate Republicans never learn anything from experience. These are the same people who were all over television last week panicking elderly people watching FOX News about Iran being “two weeks away” from nuking New York City.
Vote Harder in 2026, 2028, 2030, etc.
Sheet, I wouldn’t mind if Iran or anybody wanted to nuke jew york city. Just give me and mine a few days notice ?
Just who exactly are these 70 million on Medicaid though? What is the breakdown between people who honestly need it? And welfare queens or some dude in his thirties who smokes weed 24/7? Are there a lot of scammers on it? I remember when they made all these people go in person to the SS office to verify who they were it showed all these able bodied young guys in their thirties and forties standing around? Not the old, cotton ball hairdo old ladies you’d expect? Is medicaid mostly yet another free ride for blacks?
Many of them are the low propensity young male voters who were decisive in Trump winning the 2024 election. The GOP wants to kick them off their health insurance. It is a colossal political mistake
Is medicaid mostly yet another free ride for blacks?
Largely.
They certainly abuse it the most, along with Jewish doctors who send out ‘recruiters’ and pay welfare queens to visit their clinics. All this while poor WHITES go without essential medical care because of costs, often with fatal consequences.
“Iran being “two weeks away” from nuking New York City.”
Something wrong with that ?
Another decade another communist Mediscare. And Hunter right in with them. The Communist Party (Dems) used to run a Mediscare every 2 years. Didn’ do anything for them. Nigras and invaders already vote Communist.
In Virginia the Republicans ran a reverse Mediscare in ’97. They went on the Jew Box and radio, everywhere really, accusing the Dems of taking away Medicare. It was great. A lot of the parasites believed the lies and the Republicans won big. Stephen Miller should try that next year.