Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) on Thursday mocked President Trump’s conventional use of capitalized letters and repeating exclamation factors on social media, voicing her opposition to the food stamp and Medicaid cuts included within the GOP’s ‘huge, lovely” spending and tax bill.
“GOP’S BIG UGLY BILL KICKS PEOPLE OFF HEALTH CARE AND FOOD ASSISTANCE. HOSPITALS WILL CLOSE. KIDS WITH DISABILITIES WILL LOSE CAREGIVERS. BIG WINNERS? BILLIONAIRES. TOTAL FRAUD!” Murray wrote in a post on social platform X.
“IT POLLS LIKE GARBAGE, BECAUSE IT IS. GOP SHOULD DROP IT!! THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER,” she added.
The sarcastic nod from the Senate’s former professional tempore comes as Congress has confronted weeks of stress from Trump to go the megabill earlier than the July 4 vacation.
The Home passed their version of the invoice in Might. The laws has confronted a steeper climb within the Senate, as lawmakers have been divided over deficit spending, state and native tax (SALT) deduction caps and the way a lot to chop from applications similar to meals stamps and Medicaid.
Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough has also rejected many provisions throughout the higher chamber’s blueprint that don’t meet the Byrd Rule necessities — or these she deems pointless for the finances’s objective. The transfer has angered some Republicans, who’ve referred to as for her to step down.
GOP leaders Sen. John Thune (S.D.) and Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) have been optimistic that they’ll go the invoice. Trump upped the stress throughout a White Home occasion Thursday, urging lawmakers to proceed negotiating — even over the weekend — to get the invoice to his desk.
“There are tons of of issues right here,” he told the crowd, in accordance with The Guardian. “It’s so good.”
“In the event you can, name your senators, name your congressmen. We now have to get the vote,” he added.