The Daily Populous Saturday July 5th, 2025 morning edition
Authored by newrepublic.com and submitted by thenewrepublic

President Trump has no idea what’s actually in his sweeping, term-defining budget bill. NOTUS reported on Wednesday that House Republicans had to tell the president that his “big, beautiful bill” was indeed slashing Medicaid.

Trump had a sit-down with the more moderate House Republicans on Wednesday in which he told them that the three things they needed to let be if they wanted to win in 2026 and 2028: Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security.

“But we’re touching Medicaid in this bill,” one member told the president, according to NOTUS sources.

Trump has never been the wonkiest guy, but the fact that he was seemingly unaware that his “big, beautiful bill” is attacking Medicaid is alarming. Either he’s just completely settled into being a vessel for the Heritage Foundation while their guys spoon-feed him legislation, or his mental acuity needs to be questioned. Or both.

Trump’s budget bill will throw millions off of Medicaid to help fund tax breaks for the richest people in the country. At least 17 million Americans are expected to lose their health insurance by 2034, thanks to changes to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act. It’s not that Trump didn’t understand that, it’s that he didn’t seem to know that was happening at all. To him, this bill is simply a GOP loyalty test with a massive check attached.

Available_Usual_9731 on July 4th, 2025 at 19:31 UTC »

Republican senators claim not to have known what's in it. Republican representatives claim not to have known what's in it. Republican president claims not to have known what's in it. Democrats read the whole thing page by page in Congress out loud as a proper filibuster and voted against it. And now it's all law.

Who actually wrote this fucking thing?

Potential_East_311 on July 4th, 2025 at 19:07 UTC »

He cared about funding ICE, he got what he wanted. Im just amazed at how many people they convinced got what they wanted out of it too. We are being outplayed by a 5th grade bully

a_little_hazel_nuts on July 4th, 2025 at 19:05 UTC »

Most of what Trump says is a lie. He is claiming other countries pay tariffs. He claims he is only deporting illegal criminals. He says his tax breaks are for the average American. He says alot of untrue things, over and over.