President Donald Trump's “big, beautiful bill” is a “small-minded and ugly” idea, according to USA TODAY columnist Chris Brennan, and he believes it's now being exposed because of Republican infighting.
The House version of the bill, “slashed federal safety net programs to boost tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans,” Brennan said, later adding that the Senate is also planning to make bigger cuts to multiple programs like Medicaid and SNAP.
However, Republican infighting is making it difficult to pass the bill.
“Moderates fear it goes too far [and] far-righters complain it doesn't go far enough,” Brennan said.
“The more Americans learn about Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the more they find it small-minded and ugly,” Brennan added, “That explains the artificial deadlines.”
According to Brennan, Trump is now trying to distract from the tension in the GOP. He believes this is why the President “touted a military parade that flopped as an expensive boondoggle and then flipped from diplomacy with Iran to potentially ordering air strikes on that country.”
He is also distracting the American public away from the bill with his strongest issue, immigration, but even this comes with a cost. “Trump is seeing his support on immigration melt away in the summer of Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids,” Brennan said.
Citing a Quinnipiac University poll, the piece noted that 54% of the registered voters surveyed opposed his approach to immigration, and 43% approve.
One important thing the poll found is that Trump is “disappointing” as president. Just 54% disapprove of his actions this second term, and 38% approve of his actions.
The columnist believes Americans can expect “more distractions from Trump as the Republicans fights it out on which version of his budget bill passes or fails in Congress.” He added, “If they listened to Americans, they would kill the bill and start from scratch.”
