Senator Says There A Chance Big Beautiful Bill Doesn't Pass
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) said that Trump's Big Beautiful Bill is getting less popular by the day, and there is a chance that it does not pass.
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The Big Beautiful Bill has turned into an unpopular quagmire that has already claimed the career of one Republican senator, and there is a strong chance that many more Republicans will end up paying for their support for this legislation with their jobs next November.
The final passage of this legislation is not a sure thing.
Here is how Sen. Chris Murphy responded when he was asked if this bill might not pass on Meet The Press:
I do think there's a chance it doesn't pass. They are trying to ram it through as quickly as they can, likely in the middle of the night tonight, because every day that this bill hangs out there, it becomes less popular. As you noted, by almost a two-to-one margin, the American people hate this piece of legislation because it's going to represent the biggest transfer of wealth and money from the poor and the middle class to the rich in the history of the country. It's not about efficiencies in Medicaid. The CBO, which is the Congressional Budget Office, nonpartisan, says it's going to kick between 10 and 15 million people off their health care. And for what? To be able to afford a new $270,000 tax cut for the richest families in the country. New tax cuts for corporations, new tax cuts for billionaires.
This bill stinks.
It's a moral abomination. Everybody that learns about it hates it. And so there's a chance that it won’t pass. That's in part why we're forcing them to read it. Because every single day that people learn about it, they are flooding their members' offices with calls to tell them to stop this bill. Nobody is asking for 16 million people to lose their health care just so that corporations and the very rich can get a new tax cut. That's super unpopular. And we're going to work this thing until the final vote.
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This bill is not going to be the political triumph that Trump and Republicans wanted. The legislation is despised and carries just a 29% approval rating. The latest analysis from the Congressional Budget Office found that the Senate version of BBB will take healthcare away from 17 million people.
The margins are so thin for passage in both the House and the Senate that there will continue to be chance until the final vote is closed for this legislation to fail. Sen. Murphy isn’t wrong. Either Republicans will sneak this thing through Congress, or it will crash and burn.
There will not be any great publicity surrounding the fate of BBB. This is the kind of legislation that Democrats will run on in 2026 and 2028. Republicans will try to minimize and run away from what they voted for over the next 18 months, but Democrats are not going to let up on them for a second.
No one should abandon their efforts, because this bill could still be defeated in the next few days.
What do you think of Sen. Murphy’s views on BBB? Share your thoughts in the comments below.
It just takes people to be brave and vote against the bill for the greater good of making sure people don’t lose their health care and have working families pay more in taxes.
The audacity to characterize this colossal wealth transfer as being something other than a tax cut for the rich is breathtaking. To deny it greatly increases the national debt while simultaneously reducing services is breathtaking. To claim it will make average Americans more prosperous is incredible. But all these assertions are sold with conviction by the MAGA-sphere cheerleaders…and for the moment they are in charge. When the effects of this become real and people are turned away from their closed hospital, when their state is overwhelmed by a tornado or hurricane, and the actual suffering sets in, will the check engine light go on then? When that happens will the voters decide to take their anger out on the ones who did this?