With the president asleep at the switch, all kinds of nutty provisions got snuck into the bill.
Trump’s Beautiful Disaster
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Republicans Are Cutting Medicare. Not Only Medicaid, Medicare.
Passage of the Big Beautiful Bill will force mandatory sequestration that will mean half a trillion dollars in Medicare cuts.
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Holdouts But Not Opposers as Megabill Debate Drags On
The House Freedom Caucus keeps saying they don’t want to vote for this bill. They keep refusing to actually vote no.
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Senate Passes Megabill as Murkowski Stays Bought
In a “wraparound” amendment, a new tax on solar and wind gets dropped.
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Trump Tax Cut Magic Wand Kicks Off Vote-a-Rama
After the Senate made $3.76 trillion in tax cuts go away, amendments will determine if there are enough votes to pass the Big Beautiful Bill.
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New Byrd Violations Threaten Trump’s Beautiful Bill
The parliamentarian kicked out a key Medicaid provision, part of a $587 billion rollback in spending cuts. Republicans don’t have good options to deal with that.
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Republicans Propose Fixing 1.5 Percent of Their Rural Hospital Problem
An insulting offer for a rural hospital fund is panned by Senate Republican holdouts. But the leadership is betting they’ll give in soon enough.
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Senate Republicans’ Climate-Wrecking Corn Ethanol Payout
This version of the Big Beautiful Bill would hand vast subsidies to a toxic industry, all while gutting wind, solar, and green hydrogen.
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The Parliamentarian Comes for the Beautiful Bill
A couple dozen provisions have been removed. No ruling yet on the biggest one, which could mean $3.7 trillion in fake ‘savings.’
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The Word Games That Enable Medicaid Cuts
We don’t call it Medicaid in many states, and we use euphemisms for what are in reality cuts. That endangers the system, a health care regulator writes.