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Fox News
2 days ago
- Business
- Fox News
Senator Markwayne Mullin: It's Very Disingenuous What Democrats Are Saying About The 'Big, Beautiful Bill'
Oklahoma Republican Senator Markwayne Mullin joins Fox Across America With guest host Emily Compagno to push back on some of the criticisms of the 'big, beautiful bill' that are being promoted by Democratic lawmakers, and even a few of his GOP colleagues. 'So right now you're hearing there's a lot of talk about this bill at 3.3 trillion dollars in deficit spending, right? And the sneaky attack is that will happen if we actually don't pass the bill because right now we're working on what we call current policy. That's the tax policies that President Trump passed in 2018 is signed in law. If we allow this bill not to pass and we can't get the agreement on it on making the taxes permanent, what ends up happening is we have a $4 trillion actual surplus in taxes coming back to Washington, D.C. So what the Democrats are saying is, is we'll just let it expire then we're actually going to have new revenue. But since you're going to not let it expire, that's actually going to be a deficit to the treasurer. But if you actually look at the CBO score, there's two CBO scores out here. One is the Democrats pretending, asking the CBO, to pretend like if the taxes expired and we went back to high taxes for everybody and it costs every taxpayer in America more money. The CBO says, well, we'll have a $4 trillion surplus if you do that. And so our ask was like, no, you can't do that, the taxes haven't expired, we're extending the taxes to make them permanent. So what happens if we don't let the taxes expire and we make them permanent? Well, you go from a $3.3 trillion deficit to actually a $507 billion surplus, which is exactly what happened when President Trump was in office in 2018, the CBO said we're going to have $150 billion deficit and reduced taxes. And what's happened is the treasurer actually in a year and a half saw a $150 surplus. Because why? The American people took the money, invested it in their own backyard, invested in their businesses, hired more people, bought more stuff. And we saw a surplus in income taxes coming to Washington, D.C. So it's very disingenuous what the Democrats are saying out there.' Sen. Mullin Explains Who Was Really Running The Biden White House Check out the podcast to hear what else Senator Mullin discussed with Emily!
Yahoo
3 days ago
- Politics
- Yahoo
Mullin says he is ‘very confident' Senate will pass Trump megabill
Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) said Sunday that he is 'very confident' that President Trump's 'big, beautiful bill' will pass the Senate. 'How confident are you that the bill will pass, senator?' NBC News's Kristen Welker asked on 'Meet the Press.' 'We're very confident,' Mullin replied. 'Listen, Kristen, the hardest part was getting on the bill.' 'What we mean by getting on the bill is once we pass the House version, which is what we passed last night, then we put our amendments on it, and we go into debate,' he added. On Saturday, Senate Republicans narrowly voted to advance a 1,000-page bill to enact Trump's agenda, despite opposition from two of their members. Sens. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) both voted against advancing the package. Paul has opposed a provision to increase the debt limit by $5 trillion, while Tillis said the bill would cost North Carolina $38.9 billion in federal Medicaid funding. 'I cannot support this bill in its current form. It would result in tens of billions of dollars in lost funding for North Carolina, including our hospitals and rural communities,' Tillis said in a prior statement. 'This will force the state to make painful decisions like eliminating Medicaid coverage for hundreds of thousands in the expansion population, and even reducing critical services for those in the traditional Medicaid population,' he added. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
New York Post
3 days ago
- Health
- New York Post
Republicans defend cuts to Medicaid and renewable energy in Big Beautiful Bill: ‘absolutely out of control'
Key Republican senators pushed back Sunday against criticism of cuts in the One Big Beautiful Bill, including Medicaid work restrictions and the elimination of many green energy subsidies. The Senate version of President Trump's signature tax and spending legislation imposes 80 hours a month work requirements on able-bodied adults, including those with children ages 15 and up. It also reduces the health care provider tax, which helps fund state Medicaid plans. Critics argue that those changes could result in millions of people losing access to Medicaid, which provides health care to over 70 million low-income Americans. 'There's 35 million people under the poverty line inside the United States, and there's 70 million people that are signed up for Medicaid,' Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) told NBC's 'Meet the Press' Sunday. 'What we are focused on is making sure that Medicaid is there for people in the future that need it and get rid of the fraud, waste and abuse.' 5 Progressive activists have protested against the Medicaid reform provisions in the megabill. Getty Images 5 President Trump has lashed out at senators who have opposed advancing the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Getty Images Medicaid reform is the largest source of savings in the megabill, with the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimating the legislative bundle would reduce Medicaid costs by about $930 billion over the next decade. Several senators have been uneasy about the Medicaid reform in the Senate bill, which goes further than the House version of the megabill. Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC), for example, voted against proceeding with the bill Saturday, citing Medicaid as his top concern. 'I cannot support this bill in its current form. It would result in tens of billions of dollars in lost funding for North Carolina, including our hospitals and rural communities,' Tillis said in a statement Saturday. 'This will force the state to make painful decisions like eliminating Medicaid coverage for hundreds of thousands in the expansion population, and even reducing critical services for those in the traditional Medicaid population.' 5 Sen. Markwayne Mullin defended the Medicaid reforms as reasonable. REUTERS Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) had raged against the Medicaid provisions of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, but stopped short of opposing the measure. 'We can't be cutting health care for working people and for poor people in order to constantly give special tax treatment to corporations and other entities,' Hawley told NBC News last week. The Senate bill includes bigger cuts to business taxes, including a permanent deductions for R&D spending. Despite those concerns, key senators defended the Medicaid reforms on the Sunday shows as the Senate forges ahead with the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. 'The entitlement spending in this nation is absolutely out of control. You can rewind back to the 1960s, when actual mandatory spending, which is what these entitlements are, only made up about a third of federal spending,' Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.) told CNN's 'State of the Union' Sunday. 'Now, if you take that, plus the interest on our debt, it's about 73 percent of what we spend.' 5 Sen. Katie Britt called the reforms reminiscent of Clinton-era policies. Bloomberg via Getty Images Sen. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) also touted plans to consider an amendment that would ensure illegal immigrants don't get access to Medicaid. 'Remember, the Medicaid reforms in this bill are about work requirements and taking illegals off of Medicaid,' Banks told 'Fox News Sunday.' Another closely watched amendment from Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) would lower the Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (FMAP), which determines the percentage of Medicaid costs covered by Uncle Sam. Scott's amendment would lower FMAP for able-bodied, childless adults. The amendment has been used to win over fiscal hawks such as Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), who had threatened to vote against the megabill due to concerns about the deficit. 5 Sen. Jim Banks hailed the legislative bundle for slashing green energy subsidies. Getty Images In addition to the Medicaid reform, senators also defended the cuts to Biden-era renewable energy subsidies, something that has infuriated tech mogul and one-time Trump 'first buddy' Elon Musk. 'The latest Senate draft bill will destroy millions of jobs in America and cause immense strategic harm to our country!' Musk fumed on X Saturday. 'Utterly insane and destructive. It gives handouts to industries of the past while severely damaging industries of the future.' The Senate version of the megabill significantly rolls back tax credits for green energy in the Biden administration's Inflation Reduction Act and requires key projects to go into service by the conclusion of 2027 to qualify. It also features an excise tax that takes aim at solar and wind projects. 'Again, $1.6 trillion in spending cuts by eliminating the Green New Deal tax credits. Those scams that were passed during the Biden administration,' Banks added. 'Much of it is phased out in a quick period of time over the next two or three years.'
Politico
3 days ago
- Politics
- Politico
Perilous days
Sen. Markwayne Mullin is insisting President Donald Trump's sweeping domestic megabill doesn't break his promise not to cut Medicaid, even as the Congressional Budget Office estimates 7.8 million people would lose access if it passes. Instead, Mullin (R-Okla.) told NBC's Kristen Welker on Sunday, the 'Big Beautiful Bill' is eliminating fraud, waste and abuse that Republicans say is rampant in the program. 'What is so hard about having a work requirement there with someone that has no medical conditions and no dependents?' he said on 'Meet the Press.' 'We don't pay people in this country to be lazy. We want to give them an opportunity. And when they're going through a hard time, we want to give them a helping hand. That's what Medicaid was designed for.' The Senate GOP voted narrowly to move to a general debate on the package on Saturday. Final passage could come Monday. But one Republican, North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis, voted against moving the bill forward due to its Medicaid language. Democrats, too, are looking to seize on the cuts to win back working class voters who have moved toward Trump since his political rise. Mullin argued that Republicans are seeking to future-proof the program, refocusing Medicaid on what it was 'designed for.' 'There's 35 million people under the poverty line inside the United States,' Mullin told Welker. 'And there's 70 million people that are signed up for Medicaid. You're going to tell me that there's not room to cut fraud, waste, and abuse in the program?'
USA Today
3 days ago
- Politics
- USA Today
Republican senator says babies born in US should be deported if parents are
Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin said he believes babies born in the United States to immigrants living in the country illegally should be deported alongside their parents if the adults are removed. Mullin's comments on NBC's "Meet the Press" came in response to questions about a Supreme Court decision on Friday that paved the way for President Donald Trump's executive order restricting birthright citizenship to go into effect soon in some states. The court's ruling did not address the legality of Trump's order, which would upend the historic practice of granting U.S. citizenship to anyone born in the country regardless of their parents' immigration status. NBC's Kristen Welker asked Mullin what should happen to babies born in the United States whose parents are deported, given that the children are U.S. citizens under current law. "Well, they should go where their parents are," said Mullin, of Oklahoma. "Why wouldn't you send a child with their parents? I mean, why would you want to separate them?" Friday's court decision caused confusion among immigrants and advocates, who scrambled to understand the practical effects if birthright citizenship applies to babies born in some states but not in others.
