One Big Beautiful Bill cut healthcare funds. Now, Republicans have to sell the costs
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Blanketing the airwaves with ads about healthcare, Republican candidates who voted to cut federal funding in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act are positioning themselves as advocates for lower costs.
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Senate Majority Leader John Thune was on the clock. It was in the middle of the night, less than 72 hours before President Donald Trump’s July 4 deadline to sign the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. And Thune didn’t have the votes.
Hard-line Republicans in the House had won. They’d taken a sledgehammer to former President Joe Biden’s tax credits for wind and solar projects in their House-passed bill, and they had President Donald Trump’s full backing. That’s when Sen.
Steve Bannon sounded very confident. Appearing on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher in April of 2025, Bannon boldly predicted President Donald Trump was going to “raise taxes on the wealthy.” Fellow panelist and journalist Josh Rogin immediately pushed back with a healthy dose of skepticism that the G…
This time, Republicans said, it was going to be permanent. Republicans had passed massive tax packages under Presidents George W. Bush in 2001 and Donald Trump in 2017, but most of the provisions were temporary. After Trump won a second term, GOP leaders had a more controversial idea.
Blanketing the airwaves with ads about healthcare, Republican candidates who voted to cut federal funding in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act are positioning themselves as advocates for lower costs.
House Republicans were way down in the count. They were desperately trying to pass a procedural motion on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act to set up a final vote to approve it. The political stakes couldn’t be higher.
Republicans knew they had a messaging problem on their hands months before the tax bill reached President Donald Trump’s desk. At the president’s request, the legislation was going to be formally named the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, a nod to Republicans getting behind what leaders were hailing as a…
