U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) slammed President Donald Trump’s “big beautiful bill” in one scathing social media post.
Warren ripped the legislation that narrowly passed the House last week after a number of Republicans dropped their opposition to save Trump’s “big beautiful bill.” House Democrats united against the bill, with many criticizing the tax cuts to high-income earners and condemning the cuts to Medicaid.
Warren piled on the criticism with a brutal tweet toward billionaires on Tuesday.
“A recap of Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’: Kids go hungry so Jeff Bezos can buy a 3rd yacht. Kids lose health care so Zuckerberg can buy a 2nd Hawaiian island. Seniors lose their nursing home care so Elon Musk can go to Mars,“ she wrote on social media platform X. ”We must fight back with all we’ve got."
After the bill was passed last week, Warren said that it was a “BIG tax handout for billionaires, paid for by ripping health insurance from 14 MILLION people.” To offset the tax cuts included in the bill, Republicans included cuts to Medicaid and other government programs.
She has previously criticized Trump’s bill for including cuts to Medicaid.
“Trump’s “‘Big Beautiful Bill” cuts Medicaid,’ she wrote earlier this week on X. ”Cuts to health care for babies and new moms. Cuts to [health] care for seniors in nursing homes. Cuts to health care for rural hospitals. Cuts to health care for people with disabilities. Republicans in Congress approved these cuts."
Other progressives, including U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, accused the House GOP of hurting their own constituents with these cuts. A handful of Republicans were also opposed to Trump’s bill, with fiscal hawks complaining that the bill would raise the national deficit.
The outcome caps an intense time on Capitol Hill, with days of private negotiations and public committee hearings, many happening back-to-back, around-the-clock. Republicans insisted their sprawling 1,000-page-plus package was what voters sent them to Congress — and Trump to the White House — to accomplish. They believe it will be “rocket fuel,” as one put it during debate, for the uneasy U.S. economy.
Trump himself demanded action, visiting House Republicans at Tuesday’s conference meeting and hosting GOP leaders and the holdouts for a lengthy session Wednesday at the White House. Before the vote, the administration warned in a pointed statement that failure “would be the ultimate betrayal.”
After the legislation’s passage, Trump posted on social media: “Thank you to every Republican who voted YES on this Historic Bill! Now, it’s time for our friends in the United States Senate to get to work.”
The Senate hopes to wrap up its version by the Fourth of July holiday.
Central to the package is the GOP’s commitment to extending some $4.5 trillion in tax breaks they engineered during Trump’s first term in 2017, while temporarily adding new ones he campaigned on during his 2024 campaign, including no taxes on tips, overtime pay, car loan interest and others.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Stories by Lauren Sforza
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