THE FIGHT IS ON! - Big Ugly Bill – Republicans Cross The Aisle To Battle Medicaid & SNAP Cuts

Vote-a-Rama & Battle Continues! MORE Republicans are caving! Keep Up The Pressure! Call Today! If No Answer, Call Back! Ask For Different Senator! Share With Everyone! We Can Do This!

The Republicans are in such a hurry to take health care away from millions of people, devastate our healthcare system in this Country for everyone, and take food away from children that they are working around the clock. Apparently kissing drumpf’s ass is more important than crafting a budget that is really for all “the People” in this Country and NOT just for the “wealthy.”

• Marathon vote on Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ continues as ‘vote-a-rama’ becomes longest in Senate history – US politics live - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/jul/01/donald-trump-vote-a-rama-big-beautiful-bill-republicans-democrats-live-us-politics-news-latest-updates

• US Senate strikes AI regulation ban from Trump mega bill - https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-senate-strikes-ai-regulation-ban-trump-megabill-2025-07-01/

• Senate holds marathon overnight vote series on Trump's "big, beautiful bill" as GOP eyes July 4 deadline - https://www.cbsnews.com/news/senate-debate-trump-one-big-beautiful-bill/

• Senate bill allowed to 'defund' Planned Parenthood - https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5377656-senate-gop-provision-planned-parenthood/

• Senate defeats Collins proposal to raise taxes on highest earners to help rural hospitals - https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5378227-collins-taxes-rural-hospitals/

• ‘Vote-a-rama’ drama as these 5 in GOP threaten McCain-like ‘thumbs-down’ moment on Trump’s ‘Big Ugly Bill’ - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/senate-vote-budget-trump-medicaid-b2779621.html

• Senate tries to overcome vote-a-rama, infighting to pass Trump's $3.3 trillion bill - https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/senate-republicans-try-get-trumps-tax-cuts-over-line-setting-aside-cost-concerns-2025-06-30/

MAGA Mike Johnson is having a conniption fit over the Senate version of the bill begging them, practically on hands and knees, to put the bill back the way the House presented it to them. That is not going to happen! More pressure is being put on all the GOP in both Houses of Congress to keep them afraid or pumped up. But we already know of 16 House members, plus Marjorie Taylor Greene who are not happy with the ‘big ugly bill.’

• House GOP fumes over Senate mega bill: ‘How did it get so much f‑‑‑ing worse?’ - https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5377946-house-gop-senate-megabill/

• “Speaker Mike Johnson is also privately telling GOP fiscal hawks that he’s pushing Senate Majority Leader John Thune to add back in hundreds of billions of dollars in spending cuts the Senate dropped, according to two people with direct knowledge of the conversations. But fiscal hawks have been skeptical the Senate will comply.” - https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/06/29/congress/house-gop-leaders-watch-senate-anxiously-as-they-work-to-secure-votes-00432288

• Sixteen House Republicans send letter to Congressional leaders - https://www.aha.org/news/headline/2025-06-24-group-house-republicans-send-letter-congressional-leaders-urging-them-support-house-medicaid-program

The biggest news overnight is the number of Republican Senators who are abdicating the drumpf train and foregoing the “threats of a primary.” Their defection is front loaded on the re-fueled gas-accelerated bomb fire between Elon Musk, who has threatened to primary every single Republican that votes for the Bill, and drumpf who threatens to primary every Republican who does not vote for it – all the while siccing “doge” on Musk to take away all of his federal contracts. High end drama and theater that if this whole thing were not heading toward a cliff on a fast moving train would actually be funny and entertaining.

• Marathon Senate vote on Trump's big bill drags out as Republicans struggle to find path to passage - https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/senate-begins-votes-trumps-massive-bill-republicans-race-final-passage-rcna215843

• MAGA Civil War Takes Ugly New Turn As Musk And Trump Trade Late-Night Threats - https://www.huffpost.com/entry/musk-trump-late-night-threats_n_686364a4e4b0f166350cfe2e?ncid=APPLENEWS00001

• Elon Musk vows to defeat Republicans who vote for Donald Trump's mega bill - https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/06/30/musk-warns-republicans-voting-for-trump-mega-bill/84422289007/

• Trump's Fury at Thom Tillis Backfires, Wrecking His Vile Medicaid Scam - https://newrepublic.com/maz/article/197454/trump-fury-thom-tillis-backfires-wrecking-vile-medicaid-scam

• Trump suggests DOGE look at subsidies for Musk's companies to save money - https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/elon-musk-renews-criticism-trump-spending-bill-calls-new-political-party-2025-06-30/

On top of all the hoopla over night, new polls have only 29% approval of the people on this bill. Most everyone, including right wingers, think this bill is bad for various reasons. Some are against it because of the Medicaid and SNAP cuts, others are an outraged “no!” because of the sale of public lands. Some are not happy over the cost of the bill.

• Trump Is Screwing His Voters in "Mind-Boggling" New Scam - https://newrepublic.com/maz/article/197403/transcript-trump-screwing-voters-mind-boggling-new-scam

• "Yes, I Actually DO Want My Tax Dollars To Go To This": 14 Brutally Honest Takes From Conservatives On Trump's "Big Ugly Bill" - https://www.buzzfeed.com/ravenishak/conservatives-bill-beautiful-bill-reactions?origin=web-hf

Remember when I told you all that the Senate would use “fuzzy math” to be able to sell this bill to the public? Well, they have confirmed that their math claims the 2017 tax cuts are a $0 cost budget item. WRONG! The 2017 tax cuts have already run up the National Debt by over 15 trillion dollars in the last 8 years and we are currently borrowing between 1.8 Trillion and 2.3 Trillion dollars PER YEAR to cover these costs. That is not going away. So, when the Congressional Budget Office plays with the numbers to make it seem like it is not a very large amount of money, they are covering up the truth.

Rand Paul Condemns 'Big, Not-So-Beautiful Bill' On The Senate Floor - Do a YouTube Search for this Video. It is really good at explaining who the National Debt will increase, the fuzzy math, and the fact that there is a built in 5 Trillion Debt Ceiling increase for this year, meaning that the drumpf government intends to borrow way more than the projected 2.3 Trillion annual deficit, if for no other reason than they will have permission from Congress.

• “Donald Trump added nearly $8 trillion to the national debt. That was more than 43 presidents had combined to accumulate during the first 216 years of the Republic.” - https://www.crfb.org/blogs/david-stockman-trumps-30-trillion-debt-disaster

The new budget adds at least 270 Billion dollars to the 1 year deficit according to Sen. Rand Paul, and after that it is a crap shoot (I highly recommend you watch his video explanation). If the 1 year deficit is currently 1.83 Trillion dollars, and you add 270 Billion dollars to that, it increases the deficit to 2.10 Trillion dollars. That is just in year 1. If you run a 2.10 Trillion dollar deficit for 10 years, that is 21 Trillion dollars.

Our national debt is 36.22 Trillion dollars today and we have 3 months left in this fiscal year where we are borrowing money every day to pay for government spending and the 2017 Tax cuts for the wealthy. Add 21 Trillion dollars to that and you get 57.22 Trillion dollars – and that is probably on the low side. Do you want the National Debt to go up to 57 Trillion dollars? Our current GDP is 27.72 Trillion dollars – that is all the money we make in this Country. Even without the shrinking of the economy, mass deportations of our workers who contribute 3.3 Trillion dollars to our economy will decrease the GDP over time.

As time goes on, with the mass deportations and the recession it will cause, the U.S. GDP will drop to 24.42 Trillion. If we are 57.22 Trillion in debt, our income to debt ration is 234% of Income (GDP). What happens in your home budget if you are spending twice as much as you are taking in? Add interest to that and when do you think you will ever get out of debt? What do people choose to do when the debt in their home budget reaches double plus interest? - Go Bankrupt!

What happens when a major Country goes bankrupt? Somebody has to buy that debt and they get to determine how to get us out of our debt problem through Austerity measures. Just ask Greece, who is still coming out of their Austerity from 2009 with Germany. It was and still is horrible.

• Greek government-debt crisis - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_government-debt_crisis

The Senate has NOT voted for this bill yet. Keep pounding on Congress. The Republicans have reached a point where they are willing to cross the aisle, so we need to swoop in and help them see why that is a good idea. Remember, the House is very upset and begging, literally begging the Senate to put the bill back to the House version. The Senate is going to leave out all the stuff per the Parliamentarian and they are going to leave in all the extra cuts they added.

The reconciliation process is going to be a doozy and the GOP Fight-a-rama will be on!

KEEP UP THE PRESSURE! CRACKS AND BIG HOLES ARE FORMING!

Call and keep calling Congress! Even if they do not answer! Ask for a different Senator and call their office!

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