Trump Gloats Over Passage of Bill That Will Kick Millions Off Medicaid, Food Aid

Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill Act” passed the House of Representatives early this morning, and the president couldn’t be more thrilled about being one step closer to kicking millions of Americans off their health care coverage and food assistance programs. 

“THE ONE, BIG, BEAUTIFUL BILL” has PASSED the House of Representatives! This is arguably the most significant piece of Legislation that will ever be signed in the History of our Country!” Trump wrote on Truth Social, noting some of the marginally populist provisions in the legislation, including “No Tax on Tips, No Tax on Overtime, [and] Tax Deductions when you purchase an American Made Vehicle.” 

“Great job by Speaker Mike Johnson, and the House Leadership, and thank you to every Republican who voted YES on this Historic Bill! Now, it’s time for our friends in the United States Senate to get to work, and send this Bill to my desk AS SOON AS POSSIBLE,” the president added. 

Trump also accused Democrats of having “lost control of themselves, and are aimlessly wandering around, showing no confidence, grit, or determination,” alleging they “have forgotten their landslide loss in the Presidential Election, and are warped in the past, hoping someday to revive Open Borders for the World’s criminals to be able to pour into our Country, men to be able to play in women’s sports, and transgender for everybody.” 

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) celebrated the passage of the legislation in a statement on social media. “The media and the Democrats have consistently dismissed any possibility of House Republicans succeeding in our mission to enact President Trump’s America First,” he wrote. “House Democrats voted against all of it — which clearly proves they want tax hikes on their constituents, open borders, and Medicaid for illegal immigrants.”

The reconciliation bill — which enshrines Trump 2017 tax cuts into law and pays for those same cuts by taking a machete to programs like Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) — faced no smooth path through the House. 
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After a marathon markup session that began at 1 a.m. on Wednesday, the bill passed the lower chamber in a 215-214 vote. The margin was only a single vote because two members of the GOP voted no, several abstained (rumors are that at least one accidentally slept through the vote), and three Democratic members of the House have died in office in the past three months. This includes Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.), who died Wednesday morning from complications related to terminal cancer. 

During Wednesday’s markup session in the House Rules Committee, Democrats bashed their Republican colleagues for scheduling the debate sessions and hearings in the dead of night, when most of the public and media were asleep. 

“In just over 100 days, you guys have gone from promising to lower costs to ripping away people’s health care. Of course you don’t want anybody to know what you’re doing here,” Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) said during one session. “It’s because you know this bill betrays the people who voted for you.” 

The Congressional Budget Office has estimated that the legislation would remove over 10 million people from their health care coverage under programs like Medicaid, and over 7 million going uninsured. This is on top of the 26 million Americans who are already uninsured.

While the bill may have passed the House by the skin of its teeth, it will face a renewed battle in the Senate. Some Republicans in the upper chamber have already made clear that they have no interest in being viewed as the party that kicked millions off their health care coverage to give tax breaks to the rich. In an opinion piece for The New York Times published earlier this month, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) called the bill’s provisions “both morally wrong and politically suicidal.” 
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“Republicans need to open their eyes: Our voters support social insurance programs. More than that, our voters depend on those programs. And there’s a reason for this that Republicans would do well to ponder. Our economy is increasingly unfriendly to working people and their families,” Hawley wrote. “If Republicans want to be a working-class party — if we want to be a majority party — we must ignore calls to cut Medicaid and start delivering on America’s promise for America’s working people.” 

Hawley is not alone. One anonymous GOP senator told The Hill today that “there’s probably five, six, seven of us who if you do anything that cuts into benefits, you’re going to have a real problem.”