House Passes Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’
It doesn’t go far enough.
The House of Representatives passed that bill 215-214.
Reps. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Warren Davidson (R-OH) voted no. House Freedom Caucus Chair Andy Harris (R-MD) voted present.
I thank those men because while there are good things in the bill…it’s not enough.
The bill only cuts $1.5 trillion in spending. I thought we would get at least $2 trillion in cuts?!
America is over $36 trillion in debt. The government “has spent $1.05 trillion more than it’s collected in the 2025 fiscal year, according to the Treasury Department.”
I cannot be the only one who accepts the government’s promise to make cuts in spending in the future. The Republicans are spineless and not fiscal conservatives/
I agree with @WarrenDavidson. If we were serious, we’d be cutting spending now, instead of promising to cut spending years from now. https://t.co/DFxTyhhYA9
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) May 22, 2025
I’d love to stand here and tell the American people “we can cut your taxes and increase spending and everything will be fine.”
But I can’t because I’m here to deliver a dose of reality about the ticking debt bomb known as the “Big Beautiful Bill.” pic.twitter.com/eLT5GwNj11
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) May 22, 2025
Don’t bankrupt America!
Sadly, the big bill grows debt and deficits this Congress, but promises future Congresses will cut spending. 🤕 https://t.co/wOhpUYSqac— Warren Davidson 🇺🇸 (@WarrenDavidson) May 22, 2025
It didn’t address enough of the Medicaid waste. It didn’t target enough of the Biden’s green energy subsidies.
Maybe I’m the wrong person to write about this bill since I’m a libertarian. But I wish they’d go all Milei over the waste in the government.
Republicans control the House, Senate, and White House. Now is the time to cut the bloat.
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Mary, re: your final line, Republicans BARELY control the House and the Senate. The nation got this bill passed in the House just enough to get it over the line. It came close to going down in flames. Yes, we came up short ~$500 billion but we don’t know what the DOGE (genuine) cuts will give us yet. Let us be thankful we got what we did because we almost didn’t get that.
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There are no cuts.
There are promises that future congresses will cut –and too many of those ‘cuts’ are DC cuts, the kind where the spending is increased less than demanded..
The sound emanating from the whirring money printers will go slightly down in frequency.
There are good things in it. Things that will happen now. But there are far too few of them.
If we are extremely lucky, the administration sees this as merely a start.
I agree but they have gone as far as their majority will carry them. There are Republicans and there are fiscal conservatives….not the same people very often.
You have to go to war the army you have. Likewise, you have to pass budgets with the congress you have.
Well said.
Quite right. Sausage making sucks and you are not going to drag enough squishes in contested districts with you if to much is cut. Witness the SALT negotiations. I’d prefer they be cut to zero and let the residents of blue states feel the full effect of what they have been voting for but enough Republicans in those states pushed back to get it raised.
If Gerry Connolly does not die yesterday this bill does not pass as written.
Wow. Great observation.
I’m surprised they didn’t (Weekend) Bernie him in to vote. After 4 years of Branden would anyone in congress even know?
That was undoubtedly factored into the republican votes. You don’t seriously think that leadership didn’t carefully negotiate and manage the votes in advance.
Only because two morons with an R after their names failed to vote or vote on time. It would have passed on the next vote. Someone should ask Massie if has always gotten everything in life he wanted without compromise. I’d like to ask his wife the same thing.
Maybe. Apparently there were a couple of Republicans that didn’t vote for various reasons including one who fell asleep in a back room
There’s about $7 Trillion of the $37 Trillion federal debt that comes due this year. Most of it was issued at historic low interest rates below 2.25% and must be refinanced at today’s higher rates of 4.5% +. The.interest cost on this segment of the debt (19% for the total) will basically double. We.are.already set.to pay $1.2 Trillion in interest costs this year before the increase. For perspective our DoD budget is right at $1 Trillion so we are paying out 20% more in interest costs than we are on National Defense.
This is gonna get worse unless we cut current spending b/c there’s never gonna be a future time where making cuts is easier. Various special interest groups will always be upset if their rice bowl gets busted or gravy train ends. We couldn’t even get them to put a 20 hour work requirement in place on Able Bodied Adults to remain eligible for all the federal welfare programs; EBT, Sec 8, Medicaid and so on. The debt is growing at about $1Trillion per 100 days and that will accelerate as interest costs rise. Sooner or later cost to service the debt will crowd out spending on other programs. Especially when the rest of the world is less willing to buy our Treasury bonds/Bills and are shifting to gold/crypto in increasing amounts b/c they question our ability/willingness to repay the debt without inflating the currency and devaluing our currency.
Elections have consequences. An uninspired spending and CUTTING bill is the direct consequence of House Republicans running appreciably BEHIND Trump in the 2024 Election. There are some reasons that happened that are beyond their control (like Gerrymandering). But, their failure (refusal, really) to craft a persuasive message for voters last year is why this bill is so underwhelming. But, w/a three seat majority, it’s as good as it can be.
If a handful of seats/bare majority can’t pass 20 hour per week work requirement for Able Bodied Adults to maintain eligibility to Federal welfare state programs then how many are required? Ten? Twenty? Thirty? No more excuses on such low.hanging fruit. If a sitting GoP rep is unwilling to vote for implementing these requirements next year even mid year to give States/current beneficiaries time to plan/adjust then why are they in the GoP?
FWIW they put in the bill but the work requirements don’t go into effect until ’29 which means like almost all the promised cuts/savings they are so far into the future that they will be delayed,.deferred or abandoned by a future Congress. Cuts to CURRENT sending is the only way to guarantee the cuts get made, everything else is pixie dust.
In fairness, the work requirements included in this bill are easily the most aggressive ever attempted. Big Media is having a fit about them. In any event, the last time a GOP House made substantive changes to the spending habits of government to particularly include the welfare system was 1994…when the GOP majority was 26-seats. While there is no perfect number, I suspect you can’t do big, contentious things (on the spending side) without a couple-dozen vote margin.
The implementation is delayed until after the end of Trump’s term and I believe merely reinstate the work requirements from the Clinton/Gingrich era which had been allowed to be relaxed over time.
I don’t see how a ‘pinky promise’ to cut spending in the future is worth a bucket of spit. The current 119th Congress can’t promise what the 120th Congress seated in ’27 or the 121st Congress seated in ’27 will do. The only thing the current Congress can do is cut spending in the current Congress. Why should we believe a future Congress will cut spending if the current Congress refuses to do.so b/c it is potentially unpopular? Here were.talking about an 80/20 issue of work requirement for ABLE Bodied Adults of 20 hours a week…hardly a radical, Dickensian nightmare. We can’t get Congress to implement popular public policy changes.
america needs to speak louder in 2026 and get maga on course
The bill [which I admit could have been better] passed the House. It did not pass the Senate. How many Senate Republicans will vote with the Democrats and pay no penalty for it?
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And the debt grows by trillions…again. The GOP lies about their desire to reduce spending, they’re pathetic.
At least it deregulates suppressors. Hope that still makes it in the final bill.
$0 funding for USAID as well. It will be interesting to see if both survive the Senate version.
So, based on the chart in the article, this bill increases the deficit by just over $1T during Trump’s term. I would call it the One Big Bulls–t Bill. Furthermore, if the Bond Vigilantes keep pushing long term rates up, the outlook will be even grimmer. After decades of irresponsible deficit spending that many said would be paid for by their grandchildren, we may not be that far from being those grandchildren paying the price.
It is get the good things in the bill along with the bad things, or get more of the bad things in the bill without the good things.
Well done and thank you Mr. President and Mr. Speaker.
Frankly Trump ran EXPLICITLY as the one who was going to GROW OUR WAY out of the deficit.
Raising taxes from status quo and buying Democratic votes by removing what was good about the bill is a very strange way to do that.
There is no such thing as a perfect bill that will ever be passed in congress so thank you Mr. President and Mr. Speaker we do not need to worry about taxes going up over night now.
‘We’re going to grow our way out of debt’ … GUTBUST. The conman fools the gullible rubes again. Amazing how clueless the redhat cult is.
There are those castigating Massie, Davidson and Harris for their actions.
Because they don’t understand.
They made their stand because they COULD make that stand without endangering the passing of the bill.
Their stand was made to highlight that this bill did not do enough. To leadership. To media. And to the voters who play chess.
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