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President Donald Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" is triggering a healthcare crisis across rural America, forcing hospitals to close maternity wards, shutter clinics and lay off staff — and those consequences are now threatening Republican control of Congress.

The sweeping $1 trillion healthcare cut represents the largest reduction in health coverage in modern history, with the Congressional Budget Office projecting 10 million Americans will lose insurance coverage over the next decade and Medicaid work requirements eliminating coverage for 7.5 million people alone, reported CNN.

During a press conference at the Pentagon early morning, DOD Secretary Pete Hegseth launched a belligerent defense of the attack on Iran, and sneered at traditional US allies over “pearl-clutching” and the press for spreading “fake news.”

At the same time, he set off a social media firestorm by promising he would set aside traditional rules of engagement designed to prevent war crimes.

Right-wing influencer Nick Fuentes urged his followers to abandon President Donald Trump and the Republican Party over the military attack against Iran.

The white nationalist livestreamer bitterly lambasted the 79-year-old president's decision to send American troops into Iran in a joint operation with Israeli forces, and the antisemitic conspiracy theorist singled out Jewish commentators who have publicly praised the attack.

Reacting to a report from Wall Street Journal that there are growing fears of weaponry shortages looming for the Pentagon after Donald Trump ordered an assault on Iran, a retired general claimed the war planners may have made a major miscalculation.

Appearing on MS NOW’s “Morning Joe,“ retired United States Army Lieutenant General Mark Hertling explained that when he worked in the Pentagon, one of his duties included war-planning and he understands the constraints that come with limited stocks of weaponry.

According to the former president of the Council on Foreign Relations, reporting that Donald Trump is now fishing about for suggestions on what to do in Iran after he launched a war on the country and killed its leader is yet another example of his “undisciplined” leadership.

And that puts him in a precarious position politically.

House Republican leadership is deliberately refraining from forcing out scandal-plagued Rep. Tony Gonzalez (R-TX), hoping instead that primary voters in his district will do their dirty work for them with a primary loss, sparing them losing his seat in the general election.

Gonzalez has resisted calls to resign despite facing accusations that his sexual harassment of staffer Regina Santos-Aviles drove her to suicide. Republicans have largely remained silent, primarily because their razor-thin House majority cannot afford to lose a single member.