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One Big Beautiful Bill will starve a large portion of Trump’s MAGA base. [1]
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Date: 2025-05-27
Trump and the Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill will not only kill Americans as they lose health insurance, but it will also start to alienate a large portion of their MAGA base.
One Big Beautiful Bill will starve MAGA and others.
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Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” slashes hundreds of billions from SNAP and Medicaid, forcing food banks to double output and leaving millions, many in his own working-class, rural MAGA base, without reliable meals or health coverage. The legislation shifts costs to states already struggling with poverty and will deepen hunger, sickness, and resentment in the very communities that cheered Trump’s populist rhetoric.
The bill removes an estimated $267 billion from SNAP over ten years , roughly 10 billion meals annuall y.
, roughly y. Every state would be forced to shoulder new SNAP costs , with residents paying at least $98 more per recipient annually, and poor Southern states would be hardest hit.
Food-bank leaders warn that the cuts equal the annual output of the national food-bank network , demanding a doubling of current aid to prevent mass hunger.
, demanding a doubling of current aid to prevent mass hunger. Work-requirement expansions and eligibility tightening would eject seniors, disabled people, and low-wage workers who already struggle to qualify for benefits.
would eject seniors, disabled people, and low-wage workers who already struggle to qualify for benefits. The same bill delivers massive tax cuts for high earners, increasing the federal debt while starving communities that form the core of Trump’s electoral coalition.
Progressives contend the bill weaponizes austerity to finance upper-income tax breaks, exposing the moral bankruptcy of right-wing populism and opening space for a multiracial working-class movement to demand economic justice.
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