As you know by now, the "Big, Beautiful Bill" has passed in the House of Representatives and is now on its way to the Senate.
It is a significant victory for House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., who navigated deep inter-party friction within the House GOP Conference to deliver a product from which few Republican lawmakers ultimately defected.
The bill is a sweeping multi-trillion-dollar piece of legislation that advances Trump's agenda on taxes, immigration, energy, defense and the national debt. It's sought to make a dent in the federal government's spending trajectory by cutting roughly $1.5 trillion in government spending elsewhere. The U.S. government is over $36 trillion in debt and has spent $1.05 trillion more than it's collected in the 2025 fiscal year, according to the Treasury Department.
Rep. Tim Burchett of Tennessee summed up parts of what the bill will accomplish this way:
The bill also protects and preserves Medicaid by rooting out waste, fraud and abuse. It removes deceased individuals, closes loopholes that allow illegal aliens to receive benefits, and ensures people who rely on Medicaid will have better access to the resources that they need.
We all know that rooting out waste, fraud and abuse in how taxpayer dollars are spent makes the Democrats break out in hives, and that couldn't make it more clear who the wasters, fraudsters and abusers are.
Senator Chuck Schumer is having a big, beautiful hissy fit over the BBB advancing in Congress, all while being the disingenuous liar that he is:
This is not one big, beautiful bill.
— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) May 22, 2025
It’s ugly.
There’s nothing beautiful about stripping away people’s healthcare, forcing kids to go hungry, denying communities the resources they need, and increasing poverty. https://t.co/Nu1rl7f6cX
Have you noticed that the Democrats often use the word "people" instead of "Americans" when pushing their Medicaid narrative? Because they don't want to use the words that apply because it would expose their true priorities, not that we don't already know.
1.4 million illegal aliens are being cut off from receiving Medicaid.
— Patty (@pattyisright) May 22, 2025
Democrats will tell you about Medicaid cuts, but won’t tell you about the illegal part.
Get somebody in your life who looks at you the way the Democrats look at illegal aliens -- even the wife beating, gang member, human trafficking ones.
@SenSchumer is lying when his lips are moving https://t.co/o6MfnYjshS
— Jeffrey Adams (@SOFAST_LLC) May 22, 2025
Truer words were never spoken.
