President Donald Trump took to his Truth Social account late on Wednesday evening to attack Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) as House lawmakers took up his signature budget bill.
Raskin has been one of the more outspoken figures fighting to stop Trump's "big, beautiful bill" that extends tax cuts for the super-rich, cuts over $1 trillion from Medicaid, food stamps, and green energy subsidies, and adds over $2 trillion to the deficit while also massively increasing the budget for Trump's mass deportation projects.
Earlier Wednesday, Raskin mocked Trump's marquee bill, telling colleagues on the House floor that "found the preamble to this big ugly bill."
"'We the billionaires and our king, in order to deform and sicken our union, establish injustice, ensure domestic servility, weaken our people's defenses, undermine the general welfare, and reserve to ourselves and our posterity staggering debt servitude for eternity, do hereby instruct the Republicans in Congress to strip 17 million people of their health care, increase co-pays deductibles and premiums for everyone else, cut 42 million people off nutritional assistance, increase the national debt by $4 trillion, trash renewable energy systems, increase our electric bills for the carbon kings, all to weaken and destroy the Constiution of the people of these United States of America," he said, to applause.
"Please include this preamble in the legislative record," Raskin concluded.
Trump took aim at Raskin as House lawmakers voted on that legislation.
"Rep. Jamie Raskin, a third rate Democrat politician, has no idea what is in our fantastic Tax Cut Bill, nor would he understand it if he did," wrote Trump. "This DOPE has been consistently losing to me for YEARS, and I love watching his ugly face as he is forced to consistently concede DEFEAT TO TRUMP — And tonight should be another of those nights. Raskin is a bad politician, and a TOTAL LOSER!"
This comes shortly after Trump announced that Republicans would be moving forward with a vote on the legislation tonight, after hours of deadlock and wrangling with hardliners displeased with the changes made to the bill in the Senate.
