The Daily Populous Friday July 4th, 2025 morning edition
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) again slammed Republicans for supporting President Donald Trump's "big, beautiful" bill as the initiative gets closer to passing in the Lower House.

The lawmaker wrote the post while responding to an article by the New York Times, which detailed that a "conga line of angsty Republican lawmakers filed through the West Wing on Wednesday, hemming and hawing about the" bill only to walk out with "signed merchandise, photos in the Oval Office and, by some accounts, a newfound appreciation for the bill."

The article went on to quote a White House official saying Trump repeatedly told holdouts "don't give the Democrats a win."

AOC mocked the lawmakers, saying they voted for "cuts to *every single American* on SNAP in exchange for some signed merch." "Voting to starve babies. The disabled. The poor. And they have the audacity to try to brand this as Christian. What does that word even mean to them? Wearing a necklace?"

The Democratic lawmaker has been slamming different Republicans as the bill gets close to being passed. Earlier on Thrsday she criticized Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski for criticizing Trump's bill despite voting in favor of it.

"This isn't about you. This is about the 17 million Americans whose health insurance you're taking away. And after you turned your back on them to vote "YES", you said your fellow House GOP should vote NO. Americans are going to suffer. YOU admit that. And YOU supported it," the lawmaker said in a social media publication.

AOC was responding to a July 1 post by Murkowski, whose vote was uncertain until the very end in the Senate. Her support for the bill ended up being crucial, considering the final vote was a 50-50 tie and Vice President JD Vance ended up casting the deciding vote to send the bill to the Lower House.

Murkowski published a lengthy post after the Senate vote, saying it was "one of the hardest" during her time in the Senate. She said that she worked to "improve the present bill for Alaska" but its iteration is "not good enough for the rest of our nation."

The bill cleared a key hurdle in the House in the early hours of Thursday after a lengthy standoff with Republican holdouts. House Speaker Mike Johnson managed to sway four of the five lawmakers who had voted against a procedural "rule" vote and the eight who had not voted.

sniffstink1 on July 3rd, 2025 at 16:01 UTC »

Over in the conservative sub there's barely any mention of the big beautiful bill, but what I did see struck me as very strange - people not outraged or aware of the bill content, but rather taking great delight in mocking the reaction of Dem voices on this topic.

So it seems that for some getting screwed by the big beautiful bill is worth it as long as it "owns the Dems".

Very weird.

Nords1981 on July 3rd, 2025 at 16:00 UTC »

There are several references in the bible itself about people that publicly and loudly proclaim their faith, and ornately decorate themselves as Christian iconography but don’t actually practice Christian beliefs. The modern GOP embodies it perfectly. So assured in their religiosity yet so far from God they cant even see the light any longer.

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vucubcame on July 3rd, 2025 at 15:50 UTC »

It just occurred to me that, baked into this bill is ultra funding of ICE (exceeding that of the Marine Corp. by more than 3x), and considering the initial arguments to gin up hatred of immigrants was the myth that Democrats only win when they (illegally) vote, what is the liklihood that ICE is going to be assigned to watch voting stations to make sure "only Americans" (whatever that means by the midterms) can vote?

Obviously everything in this bill is trash, and those voting for it are traitors, but that little detail gives me serious pause. That one has consequences we're not going to be able to look past at all. That's the part that takes the air out of the lungs as the mouth tries to say "remember this when it comes time to vote."