Schumer Forces Name Change For ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ Moments Before It Passes
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer forced a name change for President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” just before it cleared the upper house of Congress.
While Sen. Pete Ricketts, R-Neb., chaired the Senate, Schumer raised a point of order against lines three through five on the first page of the legislative plan, which read, “SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ‘One Big Beautiful Bill Act.’”
Schumer stated that the bill’s title violated Section 313 B1A of the 1974 Congressional Budget Act, sometimes known as the “Byrd Rule.”
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Ricketts stated that the point of order was upheld, which means the wording would be removed from the measure.
“This is not a ‘big, beautiful bill’ at all. That’s why I moved down the floor to strike the title. It is now called ‘the act.’ That’s what it’s called. But it is really the ‘big ugly betrayal,’ and the American people know it. This vote will haunt our Republican colleagues for years to come. Because of this bill, tens of millions will lose health insurance. Millions of jobs will disappear. People will get sick and die, kids will go hungry and the debt will explode to levels we have never seen,” Schumer told reporters.
“This bill is so irredeemable that one Republican literally chose to retire rather than vote yes and decimate his own state,” Schumer added, referring to Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C.
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Asked whether he hoped to irritate Trump by changing the name of the bill, Schumer responded, “I didn’t even think of President Trump. I thought of the truth. This is not a beautiful bill. Anyone who loses their health insurance doesn’t think it’s beautiful. Any worker in the clean energy industry who loses their job does not think it’s beautiful. Any mom who can’t feed her kid on $5 a day doesn’t think it’s beautiful. We wanted the American people to know the truth.”
Following an all-night voting session, the Senate narrowly cleared Trump’s $3.3 trillion spending bill 51-50 on Tuesday.
Vice President JD Vance cast the tie-breaking vote. No Senate Democrats crossed the aisle to support the bill. Tillis, along with Republican Senators Rand Paul of Kentucky and Susan Collins of Maine, rejected the megabill.
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Democrats, including Schumer’s fellow New Yorker, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., opposed the bill’s approval. She has not announced a primary campaign.
“JD Vance was the deciding vote to cut Medicaid across the country. An absolute and utter betrayal of working families,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote on the social media platform X.
Vance championed the bill as securing “massive tax cuts, especially no tax on tips and overtime. And most importantly, big money for border security.”
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“This is a big win for the American people,” the vice president wrote.
He also approved an assessment by longtime GOP operative Roger Stone.
“The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office projects Trump’s reconciliation bill would add $3.3 trillion to the national debt over the next decade by extending the president’s tax cuts that he first implemented in 2017. In fact, federal revenues spiked after the 2017 Trump tax cuts just like they did after Reagan and JFK implemented across-the-board tax cuts. The deficit is caused by excess spending which the administration is addressing in a series of recision bills. PS the CBO is always wrong,” Stone wrote.
Despite her initial doubts, Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, voted in favor of the proposal after Republicans included Alaska-specific provisions to win her support.
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The bill is now headed back to the House for final passage. Congress must reconcile discrepancies between the Senate and House versions of the plan, particularly on Medicaid. Republican leaders hope to bring it on the president’s desk by Friday, July 4.
