One Big Beautiful Bill Act

“You made the same argument Ronald Reagan made in 1981 about tax cuts paying for themselves. The growth didn't come then, and taxes had to be raised several times after. Why should Americans believe this time is different?”

“Secretary Bessent, the Yale Budget Lab study says this law favors the wealthy. You dismiss it as written by ex-Biden officials, but the CBO numbers tell a similar story. Three trillion added to the debt. How is that fiscally responsible?”

“This bill is screwing over Donald Trump's own voters. Americans disapprove of it by a 21-point margin. They cut Medicaid, they cut food stamps, they cut school funding — and they signed it on the Fourth of July like it was something to celebrate.”

“The bill that Republicans call big and beautiful is, by the numbers, the largest single piece of deficit-increasing legislation in American history. It redistributes wealth upward while cutting the safety net that millions of working-class Americans depend on.”

“You have to consider what goes through the mind of a person blithely capable of such grotesque cruelty. Cruelty to immigrants, and now cruelty to his own voters who believed him when he said he would not cut their Medicaid. It takes Trump-level stupidity to beg for a $400 million jet while advocating Medicaid cuts.”

“I hate the whole thing. This is not how to legislate. You should not have a bill this big. Nobody can read it. Nobody understands it. The lobbies love it. It is Washington at its ugliest. I would encourage the White House to try and blow that up.”

“Speaker Johnson, you say you are not cutting Medicaid. The CBO says nearly 200,000 people in your home state of Louisiana alone would lose coverage. Senator Hawley — your own party — called it morally wrong and politically suicidal. How do you square those numbers?”

“They passed a bill that cuts Medicaid by $880 billion to pay for tax cuts for people making over $400,000 a year. They did it by one vote at 3 AM. If you want to understand what this Congress is, that is the whole story.”

“The nonpartisan CBO says this bill adds $3.8 trillion to the deficit over ten years. The party that spent years talking about the debt just passed the single largest deficit-increasing bill in American history on a party-line vote.”

“The One Big Beautiful Bill is the governing equivalent of a Hail Mary pass — throw everything into one package and hope the party holds together. The margins are razor thin and the policy trade-offs are enormous. This is not how serious legislation gets made.”

“Republicans are trying to convince their members — and the American public — that you can take in less money in taxes, spend more on defense, and somehow reduce deficits without touching the programs that cost the most. Since Trump signed his 2017 taxes into law, deficits are up 248 percent. That is the math.”