The GOP chose to betray both morality and economic common sense by approving Trump’s one big, ugly bill.
Surrounded by Congressional Republicans, R-LA Chairman Mike Johnson will sign President Donald Trump’s tax credit and spending reduction signing bill at the Capitol in Washington on Thursday, July 3, 2025.
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During the tortured final assembly Discussion Before the US House of Representatives approves the legislative monster called “One Big Beautiful Bill,” and detractors are more precisely called “One Big Ugh Bill.”
“From the Gospel of Matthew” It’s begun Virginia Democrats read aloud from the floor of the house:
I was thirsty and you gave me a drink.
I was a stranger and you took me.
I was naked and you were wearing me.
I was sick and you visited me.
I was in prison and you came to me.
You did it to me just as you did it to one of the fewest of my brothers.
When he’s finished Bible readingBayer said, “Mr. Speaker, the bill before us takes food and drinks from the mouths of the poor. It receives medical care from the sick. Voting for this bill betrays these gospel teachings, and in our hearts we all know it.”
Bayer was right. All members of Congress knew that whether they were liberal or conservative, democratic or Republican, they were ultimately bills. Approved It was written on Thursday with 218-214 votes, as follows:
The Trump administration’s major domestic policy scheme has been unanimously opposed by both House Democrats and Senate Democrats, who acknowledged the moral and practical disasters unfolding thanks to legislation. It was supported by the majority of Senate Republicans who had Vice President J.D. Vance defeated the 50-50 tie vote.
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Congressional Republicans did their best to discuss everything, though What was in the bill? They did not want to face the fewest of their brothers and sisters in the moral meaning of what they were doing. But the truth was inevitable. 20 American Catholic bishops and leaders from the sister community of Roman Catholic women joined in signing Lutheran, Anglican, Presbyterian, Baptist, Methodist Anglican Church in Africa, Muslim and Jewish faith leaders Letters to members of the council It warns about how this measure targets asylum seekers and refugees, and by causing confusion and pushing the working poor to poverty deeper into poverty.
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“According to the Non-Participant Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the bill has transferred wealth from the bottom 10% of our country’s income to the people in the top 10% of our country’s income, increasing the already huge gap between the wealthy and the poor. In our view, this law will harm the poor and vulnerable people in our country to undermine the common interests.”
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