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GOP Sen Thom Tillis slammed GOP & Trump for lying about cutting Medicaid in a rabid floor speech [1]
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Date: 2025-06-29
North Carolina Republican Senator Thom Tillis did not hold back as he excoriated Republicans and Trump for lying to Americans about breaking their promise and cutting Medicaid in the Big Beautiful Bill.
GOP Sen. Thom Tillis voted NO: Slammed the GOP and Trump
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Republican Senator Thom Tillis stunned Capitol Hill when he cast the deciding “no” vote to begin debate on Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill,” then used his floor time to accuse GOP leaders and the former president of deceiving the public about the bill’s steep Medicaid.
Break with Trump: Tillis said the bill breaks Trump’s promise not to cut Medicaid, documenting a $26 billion loss to North Carolina alone during its first decade.
Provider-tax crackdown: The measure slashes states’ Medicaid “provider taxes” from 6 percent to 3.5 percent—changes the Senate parliamentarian has already ruled out of order under budget rules.
Human impact: A fresh Congressional Budget Office estimate projects 11.8 million people would lose coverage nationwide if the Senate version becomes law.
Fiscal hypocrisy: Even as Medicaid is squeezed, the package balloons the debt by $3 trillion through permanent tax cuts for top-bracket earners and corporations.
Intraparty backlash: Far-right influencers demand a primary challenge against Tillis, while corporate hospital lobbies quietly echo his warning that rural care would collapse if state-directed payments fall 10 percent per year.
Progressives view Tillis’s rebellion as proof that the bill’s austerity math collapses under minimal scrutiny—even conservative technocrats cannot defend stripping health care from children, seniors, and people with disabilities to finance another round of trickle-down tax breaks.
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