The new disclosure of the Republican legislators reveal concerns within the party that voters could punish the GOP if cuts proposed to health care in the “Big, beautiful bill” supported by Donald Trump become a law. The measure, which crammed in the house Without any democratic support at the end of last month, is currently being studied in the Senate.
Politico reported On Wednesday, the president of the Mike Johnson room told the republican management of the Senate, which he fears that the party could lose its thin majority like a razor if other MEDICAIDE cuts were added.
The point of sale reports that the head of the majority of the Senate, John Thune, “undergoes immense pressure to reduce the medicaid provisions on which the GOP of the Senate counts for hundreds of billions of dollars in savings”.
Caroline Northern Republican Senator Thom Tillis also learned the alarm for her party.
The hill reported That Tillis told Thune that the proposed cuts could lead the Republicans to lose the room and the Senate. A source that witnessed the discussion declared to the point of sale that Tillis explained how the GOP proposal would reduce the services in his country of origin and said to Thune: “It will be devastating for my state.”
Tillis is ready to be re -elected in 2026 and is one of the republican parties The most vulnerable candidates in the Senate. He won his race in 2020 by less than 2 percentage pointsAnd while Trump won the North Carolina in 2024, the state was decided by Less than 4 percentage points In the last five presidential elections.
Additional pressure is exerted on interior republicans by a group of more than a dozen house republicans. Members, who organize vulnerable seats, sent a letter to Thune and Johnson on Tuesday, saying that they would not support a revised bill that included more health care cuts.
Thune’s predecessor in the direction of the Senate, the Kentucky Republican Senator Mitch McConnell, also tries to prevent his party from making the headlines. After pointing out that McConnell declared in a private meeting that the voters “would get worse”, referring to the cuts, his spokesperson tried to claim His comments referred to people allegedly abusing the advantages of Medicaid.
The Republicans tried to convince the public that the proposed cuts will not affect the public as a whole, but that is false. The budget office of the non -partisan congress estimated These 16 million would lose care under the bill.
Even if public opinion polls show that Americans have opposed the provisions of the bill, Trump is already Plan a victory party To celebrate the adoption of the bill. The party’s campaign committee also provides for attack Democrats for having voted against this.
Democratic leaders such as Senator Elizabeth Warren from Massachusetts have been fustini Republicans on the bill, emphasizing the massive impact he will have on daily life for millions.
Trump has a lot on the legislative success of the bill.
In his first mandate, two of his most humiliating moments came after the failure to repeal the affordable care law and his inability to adopt a bill on infrastructure (although former president Joe Biden past one). Trump’s legislative realization, 2017 tax reductionfailed to stimulate the economy.
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