Trump and the GOP’s “One Big Beautiful Bill:”
The OBBB will apply changes to Medicaid affecting millions.
The graphic image is courtesy of Fox News.
During the 2024 campaign for the US White House, former President Joe Biden and, later, Vice President Kamala Harris, who became the Democratic nominee after Biden exited the race, sought to link Donald Trump directly to Project 2025.
Given the undeniable connection between former administration officials from Mr. Trump’s first four-year term and the Christian nationalist Heritage Foundation, the effort should have been a “lay-up” for VP Harris and the Democratic National Committee (DNC).
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The Project 2025 Presidential Transition Project booth was at the Conservative Political Action Conference held at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland, on February 23rd, 2024. Photo credit: Michael Brochstein and SOPA Images.
However, as we all observed about Biden, Kamala Harris, and congressional Democrats over the past decade–when it comes to combating right-wing political extremism in the US, the DNC cannot fight its way out of a wet paper bag–while holding scissors.
Six months into Mr. Trump’s second term in the “Oval Office,” the President and his Christian nationalist allies across America are rapidly imposing Project 2025 upon the federal government and the US citizenry.
Policy by policy, the Trump administration is implementing each part of Project 2025. Senate Republican leaders (GOP) are actively working to pass President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” (OBBB) before Congress heads into the Fourth of July holiday recess.
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On May 22nd, 2025, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., addresses the media after the House narrowly approves a bill advancing President Donald Trump’s agenda at the Capitol. The video screengrab image courtesy of ABC News.
On May 22, 2025, President Trump’s congressional budget reconciliation bill was approved by the House of Representatives via a predominantly party-line vote of 215–214–1.
Donald Trump is aggressively lobbying Republicans in a desperate attempt to pass his economic policy package this weekend. The OBBB features steep tax cuts for the President’s billionaire and millionaire campaign donors, as well as all other wealthy people in America.
A few centrist Republican US Senators are participating in the typical ineffective media theater of resisting Trump’s notorious political pressure, as they also consider the public blowback of supporting policies that will strip Medicaid coverage from millions of their constituents.
As the Congressional GOP advances President Donald Trump’s signature financial policy package toward final approval, Fox News is “gas-lighting” their voters with the inane argument that Trump and the GOP are not reducing the essential safety net program–but aim to eliminate what they describe as “waste, fraud, and abuse.”
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The video screengrab image courtesy of Fox News.
Whether that media messaging resonates with cable news watchers and GOP voters will ultimately determine if Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” helps or hurts Republicans in their 2026 reelection campaigns.
Absent the right-wing media “ecosphere” and race-baiting national politicians like Mr. Trump, White working-class American citizens should recognize that the OBBB, Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), and Project 2025 will be an absolute disaster for them.
The primary cost-saving measure of the OBBB is the introduction of new work requirements for able-bodied adults enrolled in Medicaid. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects that the proposed revisions to federal health programs by President Trump and the GOP would lead to 10.9 million fewer individuals having health insurance.
The CBO found that up to 5.2 million people will lose healthcare coverage due to the proposed work requirements. By 2034, nearly 8 million fewer people will be enrolled in Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act (ACA, or “Obamacare”) under the OBBB legislation.
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The graphic image is courtesy of Business Insider.
Furthermore, 1.4 million undocumented immigrants would lose health coverage and legal eligibility for state Medicaid programs over the next decade.
Before the Trump administration, the United States saved an estimated $11 for every dollar spent on childhood immunizations. President Trump’s budget cuts are damaging vital public health research and undermining cost-effective efforts during a time when America is confronting serious health threats, including a historic measles outbreak.
The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 might be wildly unpopular. Yet, unlike former President Biden, former VP Kamala Harris, Congressional Democrats, and the DNC–Donald Trump does not concern himself with what is “popular.”