Donald Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' breaks records as United States Senate deliberates over the president's agenda for over 24 hours
However, the 'Big Beautiful Bill' has also come under sharp criticism from Democratic party politicians, as well Donald Trump's other detractors, including his former ally Elon Musk.
Critics of the bill accuse it of dismantling America's social safety net, with the Medicaid and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), facing severe budget cuts should the bill become law.
Donald Trump's detractors accuse his bill of gutting the social safety net
UPDATE: We've been voting on the Senate floor for 24 HOURS. And Democrats have not stopped fighting to kill this bill and save health care. https://t.co/D5oQfVfgNX
Donald Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' proposes some of the most ambitious tax cuts in modern American history. However, his critics have slammed the bill for not only adding massively to the country's deficit - something Trump had promised to address through the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) - but also massively scaling down the Medicaid and SNAP programs.
Funding to both of these prominent fixtures of America's social safety net is being slashed, and the eligibility requirements are being tightened.
Republican politicians have defended these stricter eligibility requirements by claiming that they're simply making the social safety programs more meritocratic, but skeptics have alleged that the true aim of these restrictions is to encourage more citizens to opt out of the program because of their inability to deal with the added administrative hurdles.
The Democratic party has vigorously opposed the bill
Trump's 'big beautiful bill' is probably the worst piece of legislation in modern history. It attacks the most vulnerable people while giving massive tax breaks to billionaires.Please call your member of Congress. Let's do everything we can to defeat this horrific bill. pic.twitter.com/AVuMeClfDW
Opposition to the 'Big Beautiful Bill' has been incredibly strong among Democratic party representatives. When the bill passed the House of Representatives, the vote was largely along party lines.
In the Senate, the Democrats have made further attempts to obstruct the bill's passage, such as forcing the entirety of the bill to be read out loud over the weekend, a process that resulted in a delay of 16 hours.
The 'Big Beautiful Bill' has been controversial even among some Republican politicians, with Thomas Massie voting against the bill in the House.
One thing that everyone seems to agree on, however, is that Donald Trump's bill is among the most ambitious legislative agendas in modern American history, for better or for worse.
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