House GOP passes cruel bill to steal from the poor to give to the rich
Republicans early Thursday morning passed their cruel budget bill that will rip away health care, nutritional assistance, and educational aid from millions of low-income Americans in order to pass deficit-busting tax cuts that overwhelmingly benefit the rich.
After debating the bill in the dead of night, President Donald Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" ultimately passed by a vote of 215-214, with two Republicans voting “no” and one GOP lawmaker voting “present.”
The bill passed because hard-line Republican lawmakers, who had been screaming for days that the bill added too much to the deficit, caved after House GOP leadership amended the bill to make draconian Medicaid work requirements—which will drown eligible recipients in paperwork and lead many to lose coverage—go into effect earlier, on Dec. 31, 2026, instead of at the start of 2029 in an earlier draft of the bill. Dear Leader Don then twisted those GOP lawmakers’ arms at a meeting at the White House Wednesday afternoon, which seemed to get the sycophantic lawmakers onboard.
Just a few hours before that meeting, Republican Rep. Andy Harris of Maryland—chair of the right-wing House Freedom Caucus—claimed that his group’s members would vote against the bill because it did not make enough spending cuts and had been amended to allow for higher state and local taxes deductions.
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