Senate Balks At Passing The House Bill (But Don't Expect Them To Make It Better)

The GOP-controlled House of Representatives has passed it's "big beautiful bill". While it may not be beautiful to most Americans, it certainly is big. And it will increase the national debt by trillions of dollars over the next decade.

That huge increase in the national debt is caused by extending the Trump tax cuts that were passed in his first term and an increase to the already bloated defense budget. The Republicans claim they will partially pay for the bill by doing away with waste and fraud in social program spending.

But what they have actually done is make huge cuts to Medicaid, SNAP (food stamps), and probably even Medicare (because the huge deficits it creates will force across the board cuts). That means between 8 and 13 million people will lose their health insurance. And millions more will lose help to buy the groceries they need to keep themselves and their children healthy.

What the Republicans have actually done is to take from the poor and working classes to give more to the rich (the only group that doesn't need any government help).

There is opposition in the Senate to the bill, and there may be enough opposition to change the bill. But don't expect those changes to make the bill better or more fair. The sad fact is the Senate Republicans don't care about the poor and working class Americans any more than the House Republicans.

Those opposing senators say the bill increases the national debt too much. But they aren't taking about lowering or eliminating the tax giveaways to the rich. They want to keep those. They don't think the social programs cuts aren't deep enough. They want to take health insurance and food from even more millions of Americans.

It's too early to know exactly what the GOP-controlled Senate will do with the bill, but they won't make it any better for most Americans. They could make it much worse though.