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Yahoo
09-07-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Dems say their increasingly 'frustrated' base is mobilized in the fight against Trump's 'big, beautiful bill'
MANCHESTER, N.H. – The all-Democrat congressional delegation in swing state New Hampshire is teaming up to target President Donald Trump's "big, beautiful bill" that he signed into law. "The big beautiful betrayal of the American people" is how longtime Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, the dean of the delegation, described the sweeping Republican-crafted domestic policy package. Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., charged that the tax cuts and spending measure, which passed the House and Senate last week by razor-thin margins along nearly party-line votes in the GOP-controlled chambers, was "immoral, irrational, and impractical." Rep. Chris Pappas, who's running in next year's midterm elections in the race to succeed the retiring Shaheen, argued that the bill is "a disaster for the American people." Political Fight Over 'Big Beautiful Bill' Shifts To Campaign Trail First-term Rep. Maggie Goodlander claimed that "this bill is going to jack up the cost of living for tens of thousands of people across this state." Read On The Fox News App The new law is stuffed full of Trump's 2024 campaign trail promises and second-term priorities on tax cuts, immigration, defense, energy and the debt limit. It includes extending his signature 2017 tax cuts and eliminating taxes on tips and overtime pay. The measure also provides billions for border security and codifies the president's controversial immigration crackdown. What's Actually In Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' However, the $3.4 trillion legislative package is also projected to surge the national debt by $4 trillion over the next decade. Additionally, the legislation also restructures Medicaid – the nearly 60-year-old federal program that provides health coverage to roughly 71 million low-income Americans. The changes to Medicaid, as well as cuts to food stamps, another one of the nation's major safety net programs, were drafted in part as an offset to pay for extending Trump's tax cuts. The measure includes a slew of new rules and regulations, including work requirements for many of those seeking Medicaid coverage. For weeks, Democrats have been blasting Republicans over the Medicaid and social safety net cuts. "This is a big bill, and it's got a lot of really big provisions that are going to cause even more pain to people in our state who are already struggling with the high cost of living," Goodlander said in a Fox News Digital interview. She charged that "it includes the biggest cuts to health care in American history" in order "to pay for another big tax cut for people who don't need it." The delegation teamed up on Tuesday in New Hampshire's largest city at Waypoint, which notes that it's the state's longest-running home and community-based care charitable organization. Waypoint officials noted that roughly three-quarters of the people they service are on Medicaid. Head Here For The Latest Fox News Polling Hassan said voters in New Hampshire are "mobilized" against the measure. "The calls are coming in overwhelmingly against this bill to our offices," the senator said. "The outreach to our office has come from people from all political perspectives, people who self-identify as a Republican or a Trump voter or an independent or a Democrat." However, with Republicans in control of the White House, the House and the Senate, congressional Democrats have little power or leverage to fight Trump's second-term agenda. That is increasingly frustrating the Democrats' base. "I don't know if fighting dirty is the term, but certainly people are getting frustrated," a New Hampshire-based progressive activist told Fox News Digital. The activist, who asked to remain anonymous to speak more freely, urged the state's all Democrat congressional delegation to "introduce a thousand floor amendments, throw sand in the gears, do something, be more outspoken." Another Granite State-based activist, who also asked for anonymity, said that many progressives feel they "are not being serviced by the current Democratic Party." "There is no hope for these people unless we see candidates emerge in primaries that represent universal free healthcare and the other slate of issues that people associate with Sen. Bernie Sanders' presidential campaigns," the activist said. How Much The 'Big Beautiful Bill' Will Cut Your Taxes Republicans have blasted Democrats for voting against the measure, as they spotlight the tax cuts in the package. The New Hampshire Republican Party has targeted the delegation, and Pappas in particular, for their votes. "New Hampshire liberal Chris Pappas just voted for the largest tax hike in American history," the state party charged in a social media post. However, Pappas told Fox News last week that "I support targeted tax cuts for working people, for our small businesses and to make sure we are targeting that relief to the people that need it, not to billionaires, to the biggest corporations." A memo from the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), released minutes after the final House passage of the bill last Thursday, argued that "every Democrat voted to hurt working families and to protect the status quo." The NRCC, which is the campaign arm of the House GOP, emphasized that "House Republicans will be relentless in making this vote the defining issue of 2026." That is fine with congressional Democrats, who aim to win back the House majority next year. Goodlander, who is up for a second two-year congressional term in next year's midterms, told Fox News "the bottom line is this bill is definitely going to be on the ballot in 2026, and it's going to be a central focus of the work I'm doing, because the crisis that we're up against is a cost crisis, and this bill is going to jack up costs across the board."Original article source: Dems say their increasingly 'frustrated' base is mobilized in the fight against Trump's 'big, beautiful bill'
Daily Mail
06-07-2025
- Politics
- Daily Mail
How Trump won over Republicans on Big Beautiful Bill
President Donald Trump wasn't on the House floor for Thursday's vote on his 'Big, Beautiful Bill' – but he was there in spirit, including on the right hand of one South Carolina lawmaker voting his way. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.), a member of the House Armed Services Committee, was sporting a custom ring on the big day with a golden image of the president's face as he cast his vote for the mega-bill that extended Trump's 2017 tax cuts. With Wilson's help, the massive bill passed 218–214 after a pressure campaign by Trump and congressional leaders kept lawmakers working overnight. 'It's gold Donald Trump on silver. You don't see it every day,' Wilson told the Daily Mail about the special jewelry he wore for the occasion. 'One of my staff was kind enough to get it for me,' he explained. Wilson's vote wasn't considered up for grabs, which may be why his staff came up with its own special Trump swag. For the dozen or so lawmakers who were wavering, the president applied his famous fear tactics – as well as charm and even an array of signed swag – to get Republicans to push the mammoth bill across the finish line. That came despite polls showing the bill was underwater, and even some supporters warning about steep cuts to Medicaid or fretting over the estimated $3 trillion it's expected to tack onto the national debt. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) testified to Trump's salesmanship in a video he posted after meeting with the president. 'The president was wonderful, as always,' Burchett gushed. 'Informative, funny, he told me he likes seeing me on TV, which was kind of cool.' Rep. Byron Donalds of Florida, a Trump loyalist, asked, 'Did you show them what he signed for you?' Burchett replied, 'Yeah, he signed a bunch of stuff. It's cool.' Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins also poured on the charm when she ran into Burchett outside the White House, offering a hug and asking, 'Are we getting it done?' 'Yes ma'am,' he replied, before adding, 'I'm a happily married man.' The video also shows Burchett gripping a gold challenge coin of the kind Trump doles out, as he did to an African reporter he once called 'beautiful.' 'Donald Trump absolutely was our closer, and Donald Trump never stopped,' said House Majority Whip Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.). 'Every day [he] was there in the fight [asking] "Who do I need to call? What do I need to do?"' Scalise said no president was 'more directly engaged.' Trump's economic advisor Kevin Hassett added, 'President Trump was in the Oval Office making phone calls to just about everybody in the House.' Not all of Trump's persuasive tactics worked. He golfed with ally Sen. Lindsey Graham and also with Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, one of three Senate Republicans who voted against the bill. Trump has notably avoided criticizing Paul but has vowed to primary Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), who he ripped as a 'grandstander' for opposing the bill. Only Massie and Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) voted against it in the House. Even lawmakers who had previously objected, like Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-N.J.), ended up backing the bill after securing changes. Van Drew said limits on healthcare provider taxes would have devastated Medicaid in his state. 'I couldn't vote for it that way,' he said, but added he worked with Trump directly to get a change added in a final 'wrap-around' amendment. With the bill now passed, Van Drew acknowledged it becomes a messaging battle, given the CBO's projection that it could cut Medicaid by $1 trillion and cause nearly 12 million people to lose coverage. 'So now this changes from public policy into a policy of who's going to be a better mouthpiece... If we articulate that well, if we sell it well, if we talk about how we're still maintaining the safety net, then I think we'll be okay.'
Washington Post
06-07-2025
- Business
- Washington Post
Musk forms new political party after split with Trump over president's signature tax cuts law
BRIDGEWATER, N.J. — Elon Musk say he's carrying out his threat to form a new political party after his fissure with President Donald Trump, announcing on X that he is forming the America Party in response to the president's sweeping tax cuts law. Musk, once a ever-present ally to Trump as he headed up the slashing agency known as the Department of Government Efficiency, broke with the Republican president over his signature legislation, which was signed into law Friday.
Daily Mail
06-07-2025
- Business
- Daily Mail
Inside Trump's 20-hour play to win over stubborn Republicans on Big Beautiful Bill including signed MAGA swag
President Donald Trump wasn't on the House floor for Thursday's vote on his 'Big, Beautiful Bill' – but he was there in spirit, including on the right hand of one South Carolina lawmaker voting his way. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.), a member of the House Armed Services Committee, was sporting a custom ring on the big day with a golden image of the president's face as he cast his vote for the mega-bill that extended Trump's 2017 tax cuts. With Wilson's help, the massive bill passed 218-214 after a pressure campaign by Trump and congressional leaders kept lawmakers working overnight. 'It's gold Donald Trump on silver. You don't see it every day,' Wilson told the Daily Mail about the special jewelry he wore for the occasion. 'One of my staff was kind enough to get it for me,' he explained. Wilson's vote wasn't considered up for grabs, which may be why his staff came up with its own special Trump swag. For the about a dozen of other lawmakers who were wavering, the president applied his famous fear tactics – as well as a charm and even an array of signed swag – to get Republicans to push the mammoth bill across the finish line. That came despite polls showing the underwater and even some people who voted for it warning about steep cuts to Medicaid or fretting about the estimated $3 trillion it's estimated to tack onto the national debt. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) testified to Trump's salesmanship in a video he posted of himself leaving the White House after conservative House Freedom Caucus members who were wavering met with the president. 'The president was wonderful, as always,' Burchett gushed. 'Informative, funny, he told me he likes seeing me on TV, which was kind of cool.' Then Rep. Byron Donalds of Florida, a Trump loyalist who was walking with him, asked: 'Did you show them what he signed for you?' 'Yeah, he signed a bunch of stuff,' Burchett responded, downplaying it. 'It's cool.' Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins also poured on the charm when she ran into Burchett outside the White House, offering a hug and asking: 'Are we getting it done?' 'Yes m'am,' he replied, before adding, 'I'm a happily married man.' The video also shows Burchett gripping a gold challenge coins of the kind Trump doles out, as he did to an African reporter he called 'beautiful.' 'Donald Trump absolutely was our closer, and Donald Trump never stopped,' said House Majority Whip Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.), whose own role is to line up support for legislation on the Floor. 'Every day [he] was there in the fight [asking] "Who do I need to call? What do I need to do?"' Scalise said no president was 'more directly engaged.' 'President Trump was in the Oval Office making phone calls to just about everybody in the House,' said Trump's economic advisor Kevin Hassett. There were also threats, including some delivered in public. 'For Republicans, this should be an easy yes vote. Ridiculous!!!' Trump wrote in all-caps on his Truth Social site. 'MAGA is not happy, and it's costing you votes!!!' he wrote in another. Not all of his persuasive tactics resulted in votes. Trump golfed this past weekend with ally Sen. Lindsey Graham but also Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, one of three Senate Republicans who voted against the bill. (Victory came in the Senate after leaders offered a series of concessions to Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, who nevertheless wrote that 'This bill needs more work' and 'this has been an awful process' with a 'frantic rush to meet an artificial deadline.') Trump has notably avoided railing against Paul, even while vowing to primary Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), who Trump rips as a 'grandstander' and who also opposed the bill. Just two House Republicans, Massie and Pennsylvania Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, voted against the bill. That comes even as fellow Republicans who had wavered ultimately got behind it. That includes New Jersey GOP Rep. Jeff Van Drew, who had raised concerns that limits on health care provider taxes in his state could and up sapping critical resources for Medicaid. 'I couldn't vote for it that way,' he said, because it would have devastated how the state operates. He said he worked with President Trump directly and got a change incorporated in a final 'wrap-around' amendment. He said he was trying to persuade some of his own colleagues with the misguided view that 'Medicaid was for lazy people.' 'We addressed that, okay? But the bottom line is it's working people, it's disabled people, it's nursing homes, senior citizens, a whole array of people.' Now that the bill is through Congress, Van Drew acknowledged that the fight now becomes a PR battle – with pre-vote polls showing support for Trump's 'big, beautiful bill' is underwater, and a potential risk for Republicans in the 2026 elections. A nonpartisan Congressional Budget estimate said the bill would cut Medicaid by $1 trillion and could cause nearly 12 million people to lose health insurance coverage. 'So the bottom line is, yes, so now this changes from the bureaucratic public policy process into a policy of who's going to be a better mouthpiece? Who's going to articulate the political sense of the ramifications of this bill better? Are you going to be able to emphasize the tax cuts .. So if we articulate that well, if we sell it well, if we talk about we're still maintaining the safety net, then I think we'll be okay.'
Fox News
05-07-2025
- Business
- Fox News
OBBB PASSES
The One Big Beautiful Bill has cleared both chambers of Congress! I'm Tomi Lahren, more next. No one can whip a vote like President Trump, in a matter of months he managed to get both the House and Senate to agree on a version of the 'One Big Beautiful Bill' and before his July 4th deadline to boot! The OBBB passed the House 218 to 214 after a record breaking yet totally meaningless grandstand by House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. The bill includes almost all of candidate Trump's promises such as: no tax on tips, social security, or overtime as well as significant funding for border patrol, ICE and other immigration related items. It also SLOWS the growth of Medicaid, cuts down on waste, fraud and abuse and extends those Trump Tax Cuts. Democrats hate it but they hate everything so…what else is new? This OBBB is not just a victory for President Trump, but also for the 80 million Americans who voted for him specifically for the reasons outlined in this bill. We are less than 6 months into Trump 2.0 and the wins keep stacking up! MAGA! I'm Tomi Lahren and you can watch my show 'Tomi Lahren is Fearless' at Learn more about your ad choices. Visit
