The Trump/GOP "Big Beautiful Bill" Is Still Unpopular With Voters

 

These charts are from the Navigator Poll -- done between June 25th and 30th of a nationwide sample of 1,000 registered voters, with a 3.1 point margin of error.

Most Voters Still Don't Like Trump/GOP's "Big Beautiful Bill"

 

The charts above are from the Navigator Poll -- done between April 2nd and 6th of a nationwide sample of 1,000 registered voters, with a 3.1 point margin of error.

Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" Remains Very Unpopular With U.S. Public

 

The charts above are from the Navigator Poll -- done between July 16th and 21st of a nationwide sample of 1,000 registered voters, with a 3.1 point margin of error.

Most Don't Like How Trump Is Handling The Economy

 

The charts above are from the CBS News / YouGov Poll -- done between July 16th and 18th of a nationwide sample of 2,343 adults, with a 2.5 point margin of error.

Most People Don't Like Trump "Big Beautiful Bill"

 

The charts above reflect the results of the CNN / SSRS Poll -- done between July 10th and 13th of a nationwide sample of 1,057 adults, with a 3.5 point margin of error.

One Of The Most Unpopular Bills In Recent History

 

These Charts Show How Bad The Trump/GOP Bill Really Is

 

This is by Steven Rather in The New York Times.

Republicans Are Willing To Let Americans Die To Give Tax Cuts To The Rich

 

Health care is considered a right in every developed nation in the world - except one. Those nations guarantee their citizens will get adequate and appropriate health care whenever they need it. The one developed nation (which also happens to be the richest nation of all) that doesn't guarantee it citizens can get needed health care is the United States.

Why? Because the Republicans in our government don't believe health care is a right. They consider it a product to be purchased by those who can afford it (like a car or washing machine or television). And there are a lot of people in the United States that can't afford it.

Even after the Affordable Care Act (and an enhanced Medicaid program) allowed millions of Americans to get health care, everyone was not covered. Thanks to Republican states refusing the enhanced Medicaid, about 26 million people remain without any kind of health insurance - meaning they have no access to regular preventative care to keep them healthy. Thousands of them die every year because of the lack of that preventative care.

Now the Republicans are making the situation even worse. The reconciliation bill they are passing will mean another 17 million people will lose their health insurance, bringing the total of uninsured Americans to about 43 million. That's about 12.65% of the U.S. population that will be without health insurance.

A survey by Yale University estimates it will result in an additional 51,000 unnecessary death each year.

Why did the Republicans do this? First, as a partial payment to account for more tax giveaways to the rich (who don't need it). Second,  because they don't care what happens to the poor and working classes of this country. They are perfectly willing to trade lives for tax cuts.

They should be ashamed of themselves, but they don't seem to have any sense of shame.

The Republicans Know It's A Terrible Bill - But They Will Pass It

A few days ago, the House passed a massive reconciliation bill. The bill would continue the Trump tax cuts of 2017, adding more than $3 trillion dollars to the national debt. It also kicked about 12 million people off the health insurance roles (cutting funding for both Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act). It also cut Snap funding, which would drop about 4 million people from the food program.

It was a very bad bill, and some hoped that the Senate would improve it. They didn't. They made it worse by increasing the number of people who would lose health insurance to about 17 million. With help from VP Vance, they passed the bill and it now goes back to the House.

The media is now full of stories about GOP House members who don't like the Senate changes to the bill. Several members don't think enough has been cut. Several members don't like the Medicaid cuts. Some others are upset with a provision that eliminate renewable energy subsidies. All of them are crowing loudly that they cannot vote for the bill now.

Don't believe them!

Trump wants the bill, and he wants it now. Those GOP House members currently complaining are just engaging in some political theater. When Trump calls them to cajole and threaten, the yellow streak on their backs will shine brightly and they will fold like a cheap suit.

The Republicans know this is a really bad bill, which will hurt their own constituents, but Trump wants it - so they will pass it. Ethical conservatism no longer exists in the Republican Party. It has given way to the cult of Trump.

Vance Cases The Tie-Breaking Vote To Pass Trump's Big Ugly Bill

Three Republican senators voted against the bill - Susan Collins (Maine), Rand Paul (Kentucky) and Thom Tillis (North Carolina). All Democrats and Independents voted against the bill.

The bill must now go back to the House because of changes the Senate made to the bill passed previously by the House.

The Republicans passed a bill that a majority of the voters don't want. They passed a bill that takes desperately needed funds from the poor and working classes to give it to the rich (who don't need it). And they did it to please a narcissist who doesn't care about them or their party.

They knew what they were doing. It is the most blatant example of cruelty and political cowardice I've ever seen!

The Republicans Will Regret Drastically Cutting Medicaid

The following post is by Nobel Prize economist Paul Krugman: 

If the One Big Beautiful Bill Act — which is, incredibly, the legislation’s actual name — goes into effect, Medicaid will be cut by around a trillion dollars over the next decade. 

What is Medicaid? Like Medicare, it’s government-provided health insurance. But unlike Medicare, it’s “means-tested”: your income has to fall below a certain level before you’re eligible. This makes Medicaid a program for the poor or near-poor — and that, for many on the right, suggests a political opportunity.

Ostensibly, the right attacks Medicaid because it costs too much. I mean, it’s a government program, which means that it must be riddled with waste, fraud, and abuse, right? And surely there must be millions of lazy people getting health care through Medicaid who should be getting up off their couches and going to work.

The reality is that none of this is true.

No doubt there’s waste and fraud in Medicaid, as there is in any system created and run by human beings. But overall Medicaid provides essential health care relatively cheaply. Once you adjust for the relatively poor health of the average Medicaid recipient — chronic illness can make you poor! — Medicaid appears to have significantly lower costs than private insurance:

Actually, in some ways Medicaid resembles the health care systems of other advanced countries, which are much cheaper than U.S. health care (while achieving equally good results) largely because they’re more cost-conscious, willing to bargain hard with drug companies, say no to expensive procedures of dubious medical benefit, and so on.

Meanwhile, the vast majority of Medicaid recipients either are working or can’t work — they’re disabled or need to stay home to care for others:

Oh, and one thing we know from repeated experience is that adding work requirements to Medicaid does not, in fact, lead to more people working.

I don’t know how many of the right-wingers clamoring for drastic Medicaid cuts believe the stories they tell about waste and lazy Americans who won’t get a job. My guess, though, is that they don’t care whether these stories are true. They’re going after Medicaid because they see it as a soft target — a program that helps lower-income Americans, and who cares about them? Medicaid’s beneficiaries, they imagine, are the new welfare queens driving Cadillacs.

But a funny thing has happened to public opinion about Medicaid. The share of Americans covered by the program has increased a lot over the past 15 years:

And the fact that so many Americans now receive Medicaid means that many peoplehave either benefited from the program or know people who have. And as a result the program has become remarkably popular:

83 percent favorability — 74 percent among Republicans! — is incredibly high. In fact, Medicaid appears to have slightly higher favorability than apple pie.

What this suggests is that Republicans who consider Medicaid a soft target, a program that only benefits inner-city rats, are going to be shocked by the blowback if they do manage to eviscerate this key piece of American health care.

The GOP Bill WILL Cause Millions To Lose Their Health Insurance

 

From paulkrugman.substack.com

Multiple Polls Show Public Is Opposed To The Trump/GOP Budget Bill

The chart above uses figures from an NBC News article. It shows that poll after poll shows the American public opposed to the "Big Beautiful Bill" being considered currently by Congress. Trump is urging passage of the bill. 

The public has not been fooled by Republican lies. They know the bill will toss millions of health insurance rolls, deny food aid to millions more, and add trillions to the national debt - all to give the richest Americans a tax break (which they do not need).

The Latest poll (shown below) verifies this. It is the Economist / YouGov Poll -- done between June 20th and 23rd of a nationwide sample of 1,590 adults (including 1,455 registered voters). The margin of error is 3.5 points for adults and 3.1 points for registered voters.

The Big Ugly GOP Bill Has A Provision For The Sale Of Public Lands

 

Most People Oppose The GOP's "Big Beautiful Bill"

 

The charts above are from the Kaiser Family Foundation Poll -- done between June 4th and 8th of a nationwide sample of 1,321 adults, with a 3 point margin of error.