Retiring GOP senator savages Medicaid cuts in Trump's "big, beautiful bill"

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Axios

10 hours ago


Fresh off announcing he'll retire next year, Sen. Thom Tillis gave a lengthy floor speech Sunday night attacking cuts to Medicaid in the "big, beautiful bill."

Why it matters: The North Carolina Republican is accusing the GOP of breaking President Trump's campaign promises to protect Medicaid.

Tillis voted Saturday against starting debate on the bill, and has declared he'll vote "no" on the final version.

Zoom in: "I'm telling the president, you have been misinformed," Tillis said on Sunday night.

"What do I tell 663,000 people in two years, three years, when President Trump breaks his promise by pushing them off of Medicaid because the funding's not there anymore," Tillis asked.

He compared Trump's promise on Medicaid to former President Obama's "if you like your health care plan, you can keep it" quote on the Affordable Care Act.

The Senate's version of the "big, beautiful bill" would result in 12 million more people without health insurance in 2034 than today, the Congressional Budget Office projects.

Read more: https://www.axios.com/2025/06/30/thom-tillis-medicaid-trump-big-beautiful-bill

[BootinUp]

1. Feature. Not bug. according to MAGA. nt

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Leaving the cult because you voted against the cult here or there

He's smart though, they'd make his life miserable.

[Wednesdays]

14. They'd make his life short. nt

[Beartracks]

3. 12 million people with no healthcare will cost the US a SHIT TON more than what the bill supposedly "saves." n/t

[Katinfl]

4. Do you think he really had plans to retire or just now realized he had no chance of re-election after his "no" vote?

[barbtries]

11. i like to think

that all those calls paid off. But i doubt it.
He's just taking the money and running imo. tired of being attacked from both sides.

[paleotn]

12. Hard to say. When he ran for Senate the first time

he campaigned on term limiting himself. That didn’t happen once he discovered what a sweet gig it is.

With NC turning more and more purple, perhaps he figured he couldn’t win the general election post BBB. If you can’t beat the Dem, not getting primaried is irrelevant.

[FBaggins]

18. Republicans here censored him a couple years ago

He still had a pretty good chance of winning if Roy Cooper stayed out of the race... but this vote probably ends it for him.

And with Cooper now hinting that he'll get in... I'd say we should be favored to pick up the seat.

[calimary]

19. Let's hope so!

[padfun]

5. He should run just to make MAGA spend

He could make them spent a whole lot of money if he wanted to.

[BoRaGard]

6. "My fellow repubes are about to buttbang America on behalf of billionaires." ThT (R-Apostate)

[Ray Bruns]

7. Real brave there Tillis. Launch your opposition with one foot out the door.

Coward

[oldmanlynn]

8. Anytime we get a republican senator leaving the cult so to speak it's beneficial

Maybe one senator can cause two or three other senators and next thing you know you can kill the bill

[oldmanlynn]

9. It's definitely beneficial to have a Republican senator. Leave the cult

Maybe one senator can cause two or three other senators to walk away and next thing you know you can kill the bill. Lisa Murkowski seems like a no

[634-5789]

10. it's way too little, WAY TOO LATE.

[Wednesdays]

13. This brings certain words to my mind...

...something like "leopards" and "faces," or some such.

[MuchBetterThanThis]

15. Just one thing.. F&CK YOU MAGA ENABLING MOFO!!!

These people do not deserve an exit ramp after seeing what this MF did in the 1st term and KNOWING what he planned to do in this 2nd.
Go rot in hell mutherfucker!!!🤨

[Rhiannon12866]

16. Watch GOP senator's scathing speech about Trump's 'big, beautiful bill' - CNN This Morning

In a fiery speech, Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) warned Trump and Republicans that the Senate version of the sweeping "big, beautiful bill" will break a promise Trump made to not cut Medicaid. Tillis also announced Sunday that he will not seek re-election in 2026. - 06/30/2025.

[Gimpyknee]

17. F' Mitch.

McConnell, like Tillis, is retiring. A “No” vote wouldn’t have hurt him. How many Kentuckians will be hurt by this bill? Spineless bastard.

And to answer my question, over 4 million, some 35% of Kentuckians receive Medicaid.