Trump’s “Big Beautiful” Tax Bill is now the Law of “MAGA-Land:”
Will the DNC offer a VIABLE competing vision for America?
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“This is one of the most destructive bills in US history.” – California Governor Gavin Newsom, writing on social media about the prospective economic and social welfare implications of President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill.”
On the eve of Independence Day in America, Republicans (GOP) in the United States House of Representatives passed President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” (OBBB), which the Senate reworked from the original House-approved version earlier this week.
After back-to-back overnight sessions in both chambers of Congress, the House finally passed the final iteration of President Trump’s “OBBB” on Thursday, July 3rd, 2025.
The OBBB–which advances Mr. Trump’s Project 2025-influenced right-wing policies on tax, the border, defense, energy, and the national debt–now goes to the president’s desk to be signed into law just in time for the GOP’s self-imposed Fourth of July deadline.
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Until this past month, President Donald Trump had primarily operated through unilateral executive orders, rather than relying on the GOP-controlled Congress.
Mr. Trump’s widespread migrant deportation actions, his haphazard tariff policies, the dismantling of the Department of Education, and defunding of a vast array of other federal agencies–all happened with the stroke of the president’s executive signature. At the same time, the GOP willingly acquiesced, and Congressional Democrats feigned helplessness.
That changed this week, as Republicans commanded center stage in delivering Donald Trump’s first big legislative win of his second term. The president is scheduled to sign his “big, beautiful bill” tomorrow at 5 p.m. ET while celebrating the 4th of July at the White House.
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President Trump’s OBBB features a massive package of tax and federal spending cuts.
Among the claims that California Governor Gavin Newsom, a leading national Democrat, makes about the OBBB are the following:
The OBBB is the most significant transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in American history.
The bill contains the largest cut to Medicaid and food assistance programs in American history.
Electricity costs in select states across the US could go up by 30%.
$4 trillion will be added to the debt.
Progressive Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) posted on social media of Trump’s OBBB, “I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die.”
During a record-breaking floor speech on Wednesday night through Thursday morning, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) said, “If Republicans were so proud of this one big, ugly bill, why did debate begin at 3:28 a.m. in the morning?”
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US House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA). The photo is courtesy of Kevin Dietsch and Getty Images.
If electorally vulnerable “moderate” Republicans in “purple” districts are concerned about their political futures after voting to support the OBBB this week, they are not outwardly showing any fear.
According to independent political analysis by organizations like the Cato Institute, Trump’s $4.5 trillion tax cuts to America’s millionaires and billionaires will translate into removing 17 million people from Medicaid and kicking 11.8 million more off SNAP and public school lunch programs for needy children.
The answer from President Trump and the GOP to the possible civil unrest caused by the OBBB is to massively increase funding to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). “ICE” will now become a larger federal agency than the combined size of the FBI, the DEA, and the US Bureau of Prisons.
The Big Beautiful Bill designates more than $100 billion for ICE and border enforcement funding through September 2029. The increased funding includes $45 billion for detention capacity and $46.5 billion for the border wall and infrastructure.
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Congressional Republicans have abandoned any pretense of “fiscal responsibility” from “traditional deficit hawks” in the GOP caucus.
The Cato Institute estimates President Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” will add as much as $6 trillion to the national debt over the next decade. This projection assumes overly optimistic GOP scenarios regarding economic growth, congressional extensions of tax cuts, delays in implementing spending reforms, and the fiscal implications of large-scale deportations of migrants.
For over six months now, Democratic National Committee (DNC) leaders like James Carville, Senator Chuck Schumer, and Congressman Hakeem Jeffries have downplayed or refused to directly address many of Donald Trump’s worst public health, migrant rights, and constitutional law policy abuses.
The DNC claimed that those issues were “distractions” from the real focus on America’s economic problems. Let us hear what excuse the DNC comes up with to continue with their failed strategies now that Trump’s “big, beautiful” tax bill will be the law of the land.