SAEDNEWS:In a fitting portrait of a fractured Washington, President Trump’s vaunted “ultimate codification” of the MAGA agenda limps through the Senate, despised by his own party, rejected by the public—and still on track to become law.
According to Saed News, President Donald Trump on June 26 hailed his sweeping legislative package as a “big, beautiful bill” that would forever enshrine his MAGA priorities: massive tax cuts, beefed‑up border security, historic Medicaid rollbacks and new benefits for working‑class families. Yet as it crawls through the Senate, the measure has become a tortured Frankenstein’s monster—constantly hacked apart to meet arcane budget rules, stripped of popular provisions and loathed even by those who must ultimately vote for it.
In recent days, Senate Republicans have excised multibillion‑dollar Medicaid funding maneuvers—one of the most explosive flashpoints—after a parliamentarian ruled it out of order under reconciliation. Senators Josh Hawley and Susan Collins, representing conservative and moderate wings alike, warn that the resulting fiscal sleight‑of‑hand could devastate rural hospitals and imperil their own re‑election bids. Meanwhile, House Speaker Mike Johnson races the calendar, trying to lock down whatever the Senate produces before Trump’s self‑imposed July 4 signing deadline.
Public opinion is equally unforgiving. A Quinnipiac poll shows that 53% of voters oppose the bill against just 27% in favor, underscoring the yawning gulf between Trump’s rhetoric and reality. Who can say what remains once the legislative debris settles? Not even Trump: at a White House pep rally for the bill, he lauded it as “one of the most important pieces of legislation in the history of our country,” as if reading from a victory speech for a contest long decided against him.
And yet—paradoxically—the bill’s survival seems all but assured. Trump’s unrelenting pressure, his uncanny sway over the GOP base and the party’s fear of defying him have proven time and again that ideological loyalty often trumps political prudence. With deficit‑busting price tags, dubious economic assumptions and scant GOP enthusiasm, this “big, beautiful bill” may well become Trump’s most emblematic legacy: a monument to policymaking by showmanship, where spectacle substitutes for substance—and where even the bill’s fiercest critics reluctantly line up to vote “Yes.”
