Trump is hoping the “One Big Beautiful Bill” will help seal his legacy, extending his expiring first-term tax cuts at a cost of $4.5 trillion and beefing up border security.
The Senate formally opened debate on the bill late Saturday, after Republican holdouts delayed what should have been a procedural vote.
The US president has pushed his party to get the bill passed and on his desk for him to sign into law by July 4, the United States’ Independence Day.
“There are a lot of bad people in the Democrat Party,“ he told Fox News in an interview aired Sunday, berating his political opponents for not backing an increase to the debt ceiling.
“Republicans must remember that they are fighting against a very evil, corrupt and, in many ways, incompetent (Policywise!) group of people, who would rather see our Country ‘go down in flames’ than do the right thing,“ he said on social media.
If passed in the Senate, the bill would go back to the House for approval, where Republicans can only afford to lose a handful of votes -- and are facing stiff opposition from within their own ranks.
Divisive cuts
Republicans are split on the Medicaid cuts, which will threaten scores of rural hospitals and lead to an estimated 8.6 million Americans being deprived of health care.
On Saturday, former Trump advisor Elon Musk -- with whom the president had a public falling out this month over his criticism of the bill -- called the current proposal “utterly insane and destructive.”
Independent analysis also shows that the bill would pave the way for a historic redistribution of wealth from the poorest 10 percent of Americans to the richest.
Although the House has already passed its own version, both chambers have to agree on the same text before it can be signed into law.
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