Trump, Big Beautiful Bill and Republican senators
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After scheduling a 1 a.m. committee hearing to continue advancing President Trump's desired "big, beautiful" budget bill, Democrats are slamming the move as an effort to avoid criticism.
The "One Big Beautiful Bill" contains a 50 percent reduction in the tax break that allows team owners to save millions of dollars.
Millions of low-income Americans, including families with children, could lose their food stamp benefits under House Republicans’ newly passed tax and spending cuts package, according to a Congressional Budget Office analysis released Thursday.
House Speaker Mike Johnson shepherded through Congress President Trump's spending bill, which includes Medicaid work requirements.
Work requirements — better understood as benefit limits for the unemployed — are the centerpiece of Medicaid and food benefit cuts Republicans are using to offset part of the cost of tax cuts at the heart of their so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill.” Work requirements were the core of a 1996 welfare reform bill that Clinton signed into law.
Republican Senators Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Rand Paul of Kentucky leaned into their criticism of President Donald Trump's "big, beautiful bill," which narrowly passed the House last week, during Sunday morning TV interviews.