As Republicans in Congress look to get President Donald Trump’s sweeping megabill to the Oval Office by July 4, one Democratic Senator is predicting the bill will crater support for the GOP across the country.
Virginia Sen. Mark Warner told CNN’s Jake Tapper on Sunday that the Medicaid cuts in Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” will prove especially unpopular.
“I think the overwhelming amount of data shows that on this one, this is tax cuts for the wealthiest to end up cutting health care, plain and simple,” Warner said on “State of the Union.” “You can put any lipstick you want on this pig, but it’s still a pig.”
Senate Republicans on Saturday narrowly voted to start debate on the megabill, with just two members of the caucus, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul and North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis, voting against moving forward. The chamber could likely pass the bill by Monday.
A June estimate from the Congressional Budget Office found that the bill and other health care rules could push 16 million people off health insurance. Warner told Tapper that it would “about double” the uninsured rate in his commonwealth of Virginia.
“The fact of the matter is, what this does baseline is all these cuts, all this cutback on health care to provide the wealthiest in our country a disproportionate share of tax cuts,” he said. “That just doesn’t seem fair. And the more we can get that out, I think this will be a political albatross.”
