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BumRushDaShow

(155,467 posts)
Mon Jun 30, 2025, 07:33 AM 16 hrs ago

Retiring GOP senator savages Medicaid cuts in Trump's "big, beautiful bill"

Source: Axios

10 hours ago


Fresh off announcing he'll retire next year, Sen. Thom Tillis gave a lengthy floor speech Sunday night attacking cuts to Medicaid in the "big, beautiful bill."

Why it matters: The North Carolina Republican is accusing the GOP of breaking President Trump's campaign promises to protect Medicaid.

  • Tillis voted Saturday against starting debate on the bill, and has declared he'll vote "no" on the final version.


  • Zoom in: "I'm telling the president, you have been misinformed," Tillis said on Sunday night.

  • "What do I tell 663,000 people in two years, three years, when President Trump breaks his promise by pushing them off of Medicaid because the funding's not there anymore," Tillis asked.
  • He compared Trump's promise on Medicaid to former President Obama's "if you like your health care plan, you can keep it" quote on the Affordable Care Act.
  • The Senate's version of the "big, beautiful bill" would result in 12 million more people without health insurance in 2034 than today, the Congressional Budget Office projects.


  • Read more: https://www.axios.com/2025/06/30/thom-tillis-medicaid-trump-big-beautiful-bill
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    Retiring GOP senator savages Medicaid cuts in Trump's "big, beautiful bill" (Original Post) BumRushDaShow 16 hrs ago OP
    Feature. Not bug. according to MAGA. nt BootinUp 16 hrs ago #1
    Leaving the cult because you voted against the cult here or there bucolic_frolic 15 hrs ago #2
    They'd make his life short. nt Wednesdays 14 hrs ago #14
    12 million people with no healthcare will cost the US a SHIT TON more than what the bill supposedly "saves." n/t Beartracks 15 hrs ago #3
    Do you think he really had plans to retire or just now realized he had no chance of re-election after his "no" vote? Katinfl 15 hrs ago #4
    i like to think barbtries 14 hrs ago #11
    Hard to say. When he ran for Senate the first time paleotn 14 hrs ago #12
    Republicans here censored him a couple years ago FBaggins 5 hrs ago #18
    Let's hope so! calimary 5 hrs ago #19
    He should run just to make MAGA spend padfun 15 hrs ago #5
    "My fellow repubes are about to buttbang America on behalf of billionaires." ThT (R-Apostate) BoRaGard 15 hrs ago #6
    Real brave there Tillis. Launch your opposition with one foot out the door. Ray Bruns 14 hrs ago #7
    Anytime we get a republican senator leaving the cult so to speak it's beneficial oldmanlynn 14 hrs ago #8
    It's definitely beneficial to have a Republican senator. Leave the cult oldmanlynn 14 hrs ago #9
    it's way too little, WAY TOO LATE. 634-5789 14 hrs ago #10
    This brings certain words to my mind... Wednesdays 14 hrs ago #13
    Just one thing.. F&CK YOU MAGA ENABLING MOFO!!! MuchBetterThanThis 14 hrs ago #15
    Watch GOP senator's scathing speech about Trump's 'big, beautiful bill' - CNN This Morning Rhiannon12866 13 hrs ago #16
    F' Mitch. Gimpyknee 8 hrs ago #17

    bucolic_frolic

    (51,113 posts)
    2. Leaving the cult because you voted against the cult here or there
    Mon Jun 30, 2025, 08:03 AM
    15 hrs ago

    He's smart though, they'd make his life miserable.

    Beartracks

    (13,946 posts)
    3. 12 million people with no healthcare will cost the US a SHIT TON more than what the bill supposedly "saves." n/t
    Mon Jun 30, 2025, 08:33 AM
    15 hrs ago

    Katinfl

    (392 posts)
    4. Do you think he really had plans to retire or just now realized he had no chance of re-election after his "no" vote?
    Mon Jun 30, 2025, 08:35 AM
    15 hrs ago

    barbtries

    (30,548 posts)
    11. i like to think
    Mon Jun 30, 2025, 09:14 AM
    14 hrs ago

    that all those calls paid off. But i doubt it.
    He's just taking the money and running imo. tired of being attacked from both sides.

    paleotn

    (20,561 posts)
    12. Hard to say. When he ran for Senate the first time
    Mon Jun 30, 2025, 09:20 AM
    14 hrs ago

    he campaigned on term limiting himself. That didn’t happen once he discovered what a sweet gig it is.

    With NC turning more and more purple, perhaps he figured he couldn’t win the general election post BBB. If you can’t beat the Dem, not getting primaried is irrelevant.

    FBaggins

    (28,203 posts)
    18. Republicans here censored him a couple years ago
    Mon Jun 30, 2025, 06:24 PM
    5 hrs ago

    He still had a pretty good chance of winning if Roy Cooper stayed out of the race... but this vote probably ends it for him.

    And with Cooper now hinting that he'll get in... I'd say we should be favored to pick up the seat.

    padfun

    (1,874 posts)
    5. He should run just to make MAGA spend
    Mon Jun 30, 2025, 08:43 AM
    15 hrs ago

    He could make them spent a whole lot of money if he wanted to.

    BoRaGard

    (5,970 posts)
    6. "My fellow repubes are about to buttbang America on behalf of billionaires." ThT (R-Apostate)
    Mon Jun 30, 2025, 08:44 AM
    15 hrs ago

    oldmanlynn

    (674 posts)
    8. Anytime we get a republican senator leaving the cult so to speak it's beneficial
    Mon Jun 30, 2025, 09:10 AM
    14 hrs ago

    Maybe one senator can cause two or three other senators and next thing you know you can kill the bill

    oldmanlynn

    (674 posts)
    9. It's definitely beneficial to have a Republican senator. Leave the cult
    Mon Jun 30, 2025, 09:11 AM
    14 hrs ago

    Maybe one senator can cause two or three other senators to walk away and next thing you know you can kill the bill. Lisa Murkowski seems like a no

    Wednesdays

    (20,566 posts)
    13. This brings certain words to my mind...
    Mon Jun 30, 2025, 09:22 AM
    14 hrs ago

    ...something like "leopards" and "faces," or some such.

    15. Just one thing.. F&CK YOU MAGA ENABLING MOFO!!!
    Mon Jun 30, 2025, 09:57 AM
    14 hrs ago

    These people do not deserve an exit ramp after seeing what this MF did in the 1st term and KNOWING what he planned to do in this 2nd.
    Go rot in hell mutherfucker!!!🤨

    Rhiannon12866

    (237,597 posts)
    16. Watch GOP senator's scathing speech about Trump's 'big, beautiful bill' - CNN This Morning
    Mon Jun 30, 2025, 10:31 AM
    13 hrs ago


    In a fiery speech, Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) warned Trump and Republicans that the Senate version of the sweeping "big, beautiful bill" will break a promise Trump made to not cut Medicaid. Tillis also announced Sunday that he will not seek re-election in 2026. - 06/30/2025.


    Gimpyknee

    (243 posts)
    17. F' Mitch.
    Mon Jun 30, 2025, 03:41 PM
    8 hrs ago

    McConnell, like Tillis, is retiring. A “No” vote wouldn’t have hurt him. How many Kentuckians will be hurt by this bill? Spineless bastard.

    And to answer my question, over 4 million, some 35% of Kentuckians receive Medicaid.

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