{"id":155761,"date":"2025-07-04T16:11:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T16:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/a-dark-day-for-our-country-democrats-furious-over-trump-bills-passage-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2025-07-04T16:11:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T16:11:04","slug":"a-dark-day-for-our-country-democrats-furious-over-trump-bills-passage-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/a-dark-day-for-our-country-democrats-furious-over-trump-bills-passage-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A dark day for our country\u2019: Democrats furious over Trump bill\u2019s passage – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez condemned bill\u2019s expansion of immigration enforcement and cuts to social benefits
Democrats have erupted in a storm of outrage over the passage of Donald Trump\u2019s budget bill, delivering scathing critiques that offered signs of the attack lines the party could wield against Republicans<\/a> in next year\u2019s midterm elections.
Party leaders released a wave of statements after the sweeping tax and spending bill\u2019s passage on Thursday, revealing a fury that could peel paint off a brick outhouse.
\u201cToday, Donald Trump and the Republican party sent a message to America: if you are not a billionaire, we don\u2019t give a damn about you,\u201d said Ken Martin, the Democratic National Committee chair.
\u201cWhile the GOP continues to cash their billionaire donors\u2019 checks, their constituents will starve, lose critical medical care, lose their jobs \u2013 and yes, some will die as a result of this bill. Democrats<\/a> are mobilizing and will fight back to make sure everybody knows exactly who is responsible for one of the worst bills in our nation\u2019s history.\u201d
The bill\u2019s narrow passage<\/a> in the House on Thursday, with no Democratic support and only two no votes from Republicans \u2013 which came from Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania \u2013 is \u201cnot normal\u201d, wrote congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Ocasio-Cortez highlighted the contradictions in the bill that Democrats can be expected to campaign on over the next two years, pitting its spending on immigration enforcement against the loss of social benefits for working-class Americans. She noted that Republicans voted for permanent tax breaks for billionaires while allowing a tax break on tips for people earning less than $25,000 a year to sunset in three years.
She also noted that cuts to Medicaid expansion will remove tipped employees from eligibility for the health insurance program and remove subsidies for insurance under the Affordable Care Act. The bill will also reduce Snap food assistance benefits.
\u201cI don\u2019t think anyone is prepared for what they just did with Ice,\u201d Ocasio-Cortez wrote on Bluesky. \u201cThis is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion \u2013 making Ice bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, [the] DEA and others combined. It is setting up to make what\u2019s happening now look like child\u2019s play. And people are disappearing.\u201d
Many critics referred to choice remarks made by Republicans in the run-up to the bill\u2019s passage that displayed an indifference to their voters\u2019 concerns.
Senator Mitch McConnell was reported by Punchbowl News to have said to other Republicans in a closed-door meeting last week: \u201cI know a lot of us are hearing from people back home about Medicaid. But they\u2019ll get over it<\/a>.\u201d
And Republican senator Joni Ernst, of Iowa, speaking at a combative town hall in Parkersburg in late May, responded to someone in the audience shouting that people will die without coverage by saying, \u201cPeople are not \u2026 well, we all are going to die<\/a>\u201d \u2013 a response that drew groans.
Cuts to Medicaid feature prominently in Democratic reaction to the bill.
Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib described the bill as \u201cdisgusting\u201d and \u201can act of violence against our communities\u201d.
She said: \u201cRepublicans should be ashamed for saying \u2018just get over it\u2019 because \u2018we\u2019re all going to die.\u2019 They are responsible for the 50,000 people who will die unnecessarily every year because of this deadly budget.\u201d
\u201cThere is no sugarcoating this. This is a dark day for our country,\u201d wrote Senator Raphael Warnock.
\u201cRepublicans in Washington have decided to sell out working people. As a result, millions will lose their healthcare and many millions more will see their premiums go up. Rural hospitals and nursing homes across Georgia will be forced to close. Children will be forced to go hungry so that we can give billionaires another tax cut.\u201d
But budget hawks on the left and the right have taken issue with the effects this budget will have on the already considerable national debt.
\u201cIn a massive fiscal capitulation, Congress has passed the single most expensive, dishonest and reckless budget reconciliation bill ever \u2013 and it comes amidst an already alarming fiscal situation,\u201d wrote Maya MacGuineas, the president of the oversight organization Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, in reaction to the House\u2019s passage of the bill.
\u201cNever before has a piece of legislation been jammed through with such disregard for our fiscal outlook, the budget process, and the impact it will have on the wellbeing of the country and future generations.\u201d
\u201cHouse Republicans just voted \u2013 again \u2013 to jack up costs, gut health care and reward the elite with tax breaks,\u201d wrote the House Majority Pac, a Democratic fund.
\u201cThey had a chance to change course, but instead they doubled down on this deeply unpopular, toxic agenda. They\u2019ll have no one to blame but themselves when voters send them packing and deliver Democrats the House majority in 2026.\u201d
\u201cRepublicans didn\u2019t pass this bill for the people,\u201d wrote Jasmine Crockett, a Texas Democrat. \u201cThey passed it to please Trump, protect the powerful and push cruelty disguised as policy.\u201d<\/p>\n

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