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Subject: Spin Cycle: Kill Bill -- The One Big Beautiful One, That Is
Date: Thu, 29 May 2025 04:36:34 -0400
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The U.S. House met its stated goal, passing the One Big Beautiful Bill Act 
ahead of the Memorial Day holiday weekend — and by Sunday morning, the 
talking heads were doing their best to direct as much rain as possible onto 
the House Republicans’ parade.

For those who don’t spend their Sunday mornings glued to the television — and 
their Sunday afternoons attempting to dig through a week’s worth of network 
and cable news media spin — The Daily Wire has compiled a short summary of 
what you may have missed.

On CBS News’ “Face the Nation,” host Margaret Brennan spoke with House 
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) about the total projected cost of the bill as 
well as some of the provisions that were included before it was sent on to 
the U.S. Senate.

	Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) says $4 to $5 trillion over the next 
	decade is “about the right estimate” for the total cost of President 
	Trump’s “one big, beautiful bill,” which passed the House last week, 
	and he says “cuts to government” through the bill will give the 
	American… pic.twitter.com/VBNuI7huRY

	— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) May 25, 2025

Johnson said that $4 to $5 trillion over approximately ten years was “about 
the right estimate” for the measure’s total cost, but he also said that the 
cuts included in the bill would provide savings to taxpayers as well.

“At the same time, we have historic savings for the American people — cuts to 
government to make it more efficient and effective and work better for the 
people,” Johnson said. “That was a big campaign promise of President Trump 
and a big promise of ours, and we’re going to achieve that. So in the 
calculation here, there’s more than $1.5 trillion in savings, Margaret, for 
the people.”

Johnson referred to the bill as “arguably the most consequential legislation 
Congress will pass in many generations.”

Brennan pushed back, noting that the Kaiser Foundation had evaluated the bill 
and said that changes to Medicaid could result in 200,000 people in Johnson’s 
home state of Louisiana losing their health care coverage. Johnson said that 
the only thing the bill would cut with regard to Medicaid was waste and 
abuse.

“There’s a moral component to what we’re doing. When you make young men work, 
it’s good for them, it’s good for their dignity, it’s good for their self-
worth and it’s good for the community that they live in,” he explained.

	The Kaiser Family Foundation estimates nearly 200,000 people in 
	Louisiana could lose Medicaid coverage under cuts from President 
	Trump’s “one big, beautiful bill.”

	Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) denies that there will be cuts and says 
	the focus is on “fraud, waste and abuse,”… 
	pic.twitter.com/JeKUjhH2Gn

	— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) May 25, 2025

Johnson also acknowledged that some Senate Republicans objected to the 
expanded SALT (state and local taxes) cap, but noted that the large number of 
House Republicans in blue states had made the expansion a “political 
reality.”

	Several Senate Republicans may oppose changes to the expanded SALT 
	(state and local taxes) cap in President Trump’s “one big, beautiful 
	bill” that just passed in the House.

	Speaker Mike Johnson says “there’s got to be a modification to SALT,” 
	and that this is a “political… pic.twitter.com/iRPykObz48

	— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) May 25, 2025

Brennan then spoke with Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT), who was in favor of the 
expanded SALT cap because Connecticut has a higher state and local tax 
burden, but opposed the bill otherwise.

	The House-passed budget bill’s SALT cap increase “is going to be 
	good” for Connecticut, which has one of the highest state and local 
	tax burdens in the U.S., says Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT), but adds, the 
	bill “fails spectacularly” otherwise.

	“The American people want basically three… pic.twitter.com/XdAjfZ3pXu

	— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) May 25, 2025

On NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) said that he believed 
there was enough opposition in the Senate to “hold up” the bill.

	Sen. Ron Johnson says there’s enough opposition in the Senate to 
	hold up Trump’s ‘big, beautiful’ bill https://t.co/yT8FaA6NBc

	— Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) May 25, 2025

Johnson also made an appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union,” where he 
claimed that the bill was “immoral,” and added, “It’s wrong. It has to stop.”

	.@RonJohnsonWI says the House tax and spending cut bill is mortgaging 
	American children’s future: “It’s immoral. It’s wrong. It has to 
	stop.” pic.twitter.com/rd0Gnanxlt

	— State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) May 25, 2025

Speaker Johnson also made a stop on “State of the Union,” telling anchor Jake 
Tapper that he hoped to see it move through the Senate without major changes. 
“It’s best not to meddle with it too much,” he said.

	.@SpeakerJohnson warns senators about making changes to President 
	Trump’s tax and spending cut bill: “It’s best not to meddle with it 
	too much.” pic.twitter.com/SsBPUkYsev

	— State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) May 25, 2025