President Donald Trump on Saturday warned Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., he could be “playing right into the hands of the Democrats” if he votes in opposition to Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill.”
“If Senator Rand Paul votes against our Great, Big, Beautiful Bill, he is voting for, along with the Radical Left Democrats, a 68% Tax Increase and, perhaps even more importantly, a first time ever default on US Debt,” Trump wrote on Reality Social Saturday afternoon.
“Rand will be playing right into the hands of the Democrats, and the GREAT people of Kentucky will never forgive him! The GROWTH we are experiencing, plus some cost cutting later on, will solve ALL problems. America will be greater than ever before!”
Paul informed “Fox News Sunday” final weekend he helps the tax and spending cuts within the invoice, which he nonetheless slammed as “wimpy and anemic, but I still would support the bill, even with wimpy and anemic cuts if they weren’t going to explode the debt. The problem is the math doesn’t add up. They’re going to explode the debt by, the House says, $4 trillion. The Senate’s actually been talking about exploding the debt $5 trillion.”
The invoice narrowly handed the Home Could 22 and can quickly be voted on within the Senate, the place Republicans can solely afford to lose three votes.
Others, like Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., have additionally expressed issues concerning the invoice.
Final weekend, Trump informed reporters he was open to modifications within the invoice.
“I want the Senate and the senators to make the changes they want,” he mentioned. “It will go back to the House, and we’ll see if we can get them. In some cases, the changes may be something I’d agree with, to be honest.”
Together with tax cuts, the One Huge Lovely Invoice Act additionally consists of stricter necessities for accessing Medicaid, modifications to the Supplemental Vitamin Help Program (SNAP) program and no taxes on extra time or suggestions.
Democrats have slammed the Medicaid reform part of the invoice, mentioning doable cuts as a driving problem forward of aggressive midterm elections in 2026.
The Congressional Funds Workplace (CBO), a nonpartisan analyst for the US Congress, estimates that 8.6 million individuals in the US will lose medical insurance by 2034 via the One Huge Lovely Invoice Act’s Medicaid reform.
“The Democrats have been focusing on this specific line of attack that 13.7 million Americans are going to lose their health care, and that’s just blatantly false,” Rep. Erin Houchin, R-Ind., informed Fox Information Digital in an unique interview this week.
“Five million of those people are receiving a tax credit under the Affordable Care Act that was passed by the Democrats with a sunset date that was implemented by the Democrats. We’re simply allowing the sunset date to expire as the Democrats originally intended,” Houchin mentioned.
CBO estimates that 13.7 million Individuals will lose protection by 2034, which additionally consists of the 5 million Individuals who have been already about to lose protection. Various Democrats have already deployed the determine in marketing campaign messages rejecting Trump’s invoice passing within the Home.
“I don’t trust the CBO score, nor should the American people, because it’s been proven again and again to be wildly off,” added Houchin, who served on three main committees main finances markup, together with the Home Guidelines, Funds and Power and Commerce committees.
