What an agony we are going through this July...
First we had the push toward Trump's big ugly bill passed on July 3, and now we're figuring out how to live with it, how to continue fighting the effects of the $79 billion given to ICE, and how to prevent the bill's many cuts to health care for Americans.
Three sources say that when Trump was negotiating with a few Republicans holding out against the bill in the House of Representatives on July 2, he said "There are three things Congress can't touch if they want to win elections: Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security."
"But we're touching Medicaid in this bill," said one Republican.
Trump mumbled something not recorded on tape. Maybe it was, "Oh, I didn't know." Or maybe it was a denial that this bill includes cuts in Medicaid--$1 trillion in health cuts total.
Jamie Raskin: "The extraordinary thing about that is that, of course, all of these people have gotten in line despite their own misgivings because Trump is leading the way, but Trump might not even understand what's in the bill. So it's a very dangerous moment when you think about what democracy is, and it doesn't speak well for what has become of the Republican Party.
Raskin went on to say: "Now some people think that it's just Trump's devilishly clever politics where he's already distancing himself from a bill that he knows will be a nightmare, and then he'll blame it on somebody else for not having told him what was really in there."
Chris Hayes: "My read on this is that he doesn't really care that much one way or the other." Thank you to All in with Chris Hayes for airing this report on Fourth of July weekend.
- The bill approves spending of about $4.5 trillion total.
- It includes tax cuts of about $1 trillion for billionaires & corporations.
- It cuts more than $1.1 trillion from Medicaid, Medicare, and Obamacare over the next ten years.
- It will add $3.4 trillion to the deficit over the next ten years--or more depending on how you predict details.
Sources:
--detailed estimate as of June 4, 2025
See also Senator Elizabeth Warren's post on Facebook:
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