Opposition grows over Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill
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Critics within the administration are challenging President Trump’s marquee legislative package. A top ally contradicted his campaign promise while Republican senators openly expressed discontent over its tax provisions and fiscal commitments. The internal dissent highlights a growing rift as fervor builds around the bill’s promise and pitfalls.
Last-minute changes could prompt opposition from some GOP senators.
The GOP megabill touches on almost every sector of the federal government. Here are its lesser-known components.
President Trump's so-called "big, beautiful" bill includes tax cuts and extensions, and a proposal to create $1,000 "Trump accounts" for babies born during his second administration. Ann-Margaret Carrozza, an asset protection attorney and former assemblywoman, discusses.
Trump’s latest idiotic idea of redistributing $3 billion in grant money from Harvard to trade schools, which he posted yesterday, masks a larger and more serious issue. It’s absurd that a four-year college degree has become the only gateway into the American middle class. Many high school seniors…
White House adviser David Sacks acknowledged during his "All-In" podcast over the weekend that the GOP’s "Big, Beautiful Bill" will involve major reductions to Medicaid. His statement contradicts repeated assurances from President Donald Trump and other Make America Great Again (MAGA) allies that…
The Republican-controlled U.S. Senate may be about to take a sledgehammer to President Donald Trump's so-called "Big Beautiful Bill Act," according to one political analyst.During a Monday segment on MSNBC, host Katy Tur asked journalist John Nichols of The Nation magazine about whether Sen. Ron…
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