By Team Zeteo
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The Republican-controlled Senate, with a tie-breaking assist from Vice President JD Vance, has officially passed its version of Donald Trump’s so-called ‘Big Beautiful Bill,’ sending it back to the Republican-controlled House for a vote ahead of the president’s July 4th deadline.
And yet, most top Democrats are too busy going on TV to attack and smear their party’s New York mayoral candidate, Zohran Mamdani, to communicate the real threats this catastrophic bill poses to Americans across the country.
The lack of proper messaging from the Democrats – and the lack of proper coverage from the so-called liberal media – means most Americans have no clue how bad life is about to get for them. According to new data from Priorities USA, nearly half of Americans haven’t even heard of the ‘Big Beautiful Bill,’ and of those who have heard of it, only 8% knew that it included cuts to Medicaid.
Oh, and the real kicker?
Many of these GOP cuts to healthcare and social services aren’t slated to kick in until after the 2026 midterms, so a lot of ordinary Americans won’t know about them, and certainly won’t feel them, until it’s far too late.
So here, from Zeteo, are just seven of the most egregious and outrageous things in this bill that you may not have seen… but definitely need to know about!
1. The biggest Medicaid cut in history
Remember when Trump vowed not to touch Medicaid? Well, his ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ not only touches Medicaid, but includes the biggest cut to the program since its inception in 1965.
For the first time ever, the bill would impose work requirements for Medicaid recipients. On top of that, recipients would have to verify their eligibility twice a year instead of annually, creating an administrative headache that could result in coverage gaps if not a total loss of coverage.
Medicaid provides coverage for more than 75 million Americans, and if the bill were to pass, nearly 17 million people would become uninsured over the next 10 years, according to the health policy nonprofit, KFF.
2. ICE will become the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency
Trump is doubling down on his immigration crackdown, beefing up ICE with the goal of deporting 1 million people a year – the largest mass deportation initiative in US history.
The bill allocates over $46.5 billion toward the construction and maintenance of border walls and another $45 billion to the construction and maintenance of detention facilities. Nearly $30 billion will be used to hire and train an additional 10,000 ICE agents by 2029.
The total $175 billion allocated toward immigration enforcement alone is bigger than every other military budget outside of the US and China.
3. The rich are about to get a hell of a lot richer
Trump and his MAGA cronies are not even trying to hide the fact that they hate working-class Americans – the ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ makes it very, very clear.
According to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, 69% of the net tax cuts in the bill would go to the richest fifth of Americans, 10% would go to the middle fifth of Americans, and about 1% of the cuts would go to the poorest fifth.
Meanwhile, the richest 5% of Americans will receive a whopping 44% of the net tax cuts in 2026. And the richest 1%? Well, they’re about to see an average net tax cut of $65,000 – that’s more than the mean incomes of both the poorest and middle fifths of Americans combined.
And according to the Yale Budget Lab, Trump’s tax plan would reduce income by about $700 a year for the bottom 20% of American households, which have incomes of less than $13,350. On the other hand, the top 20% – who make more than $120,000 – will see their income rise roughly $5,700 a year.
Coupled with cuts to SNAP benefits and Medicaid and the rising cost of living, Trump will succeed in crushing America’s poor, and carrying out a gigantic transfer of income and wealth from the poorest Americans to the richest.
4. The biggest SNAP cut in history
It’s not just Medicaid getting the biggest cut in history. The ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ is an all-out attack on low-income Americans, cutting the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program – more commonly known as SNAP – by roughly 20%.
More than 40 million people receive SNAP benefits in the US, and with new restrictions on the program, an estimated 2.9 million Americans could go hungry, according to the Senate Democratic Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, & Forestry.
Similar to Medicaid, the bill will introduce new work requirements for SNAP. In addition, the bill will require states to contribute more to the program than ever before, shifting some of the burden away from the federal government.
Oh, and the states with the highest payment error rates won’t get SNAP cuts for a year. How’s that for cutting waste, fraud, and abuse?
5. Renewable energy to become a thing of the past
And if you didn’t think losing food and healthcare was bad enough, how about kicking off an energy shortage? Because Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ will not just cut all of the tax incentives for wind and solar energy – two key sources of renewable energy – but will introduce a new tax on these projects, majorly stunting production and growth.
As Democratic Senator Brian Schatz of Hawaii points out, the result will be a 500-gigawatt shortage of electricity over the next decade, which is roughly the amount needed to meet rising demand. And with less supply, energy prices are about to skyrocket.
Meanwhile, the bill will reward coal companies with new tax breaks. And as the Earth gets increasingly hotter, running your AC is about to get even more expensive.
6. $40 million for Trump’s statue garden
Yes, you read that right.
With this bill, the Senate has handed Trump $40 million for his dream project: a taxpayer-funded statue garden of what he calls “American heroes.” Because nothing says the future of America like immortalizing Donald Trump into stone.
This project is essentially a marble monument to Trump’s own version of history. Trump recently stated: “The radical view of American history is a web of lies – all perspective is removed, every virtue is obscured, every motive is twisted, every fact is distorted, and every flaw is magnified until the history is purged and the record is disfigured beyond all recognition.”
In other words, Trump’s building a statue park because history made him mad. Not enough heroes, too many “villains,” and facts of history that Trump refuses to acknowledge as such.
It’s $40 million for a garden nobody asked for, based on a history written and narrated by Donald J. Trump himself.
7. It’ll increase the deficit by $3 trillion
And now, the grand finale of Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’: A not-so-beautiful price tag. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that Trump’s bill would balloon the national debt by at least $3.3 trillion over the next decade.
Yes, that is a trillion with a “T.” Hard to picture? Let’s visualize it this way:
According to the New York Times, it’s enough to buy every single piece of real estate in Manhattan – two times over.
It’s more than the combined fortunes of the richest 22 people alive. If you melted down the billionaire class and turned them into cash, you still wouldn’t have hit that number!
The hypocrisy is galling: 50 Republican senators voted for this bill on Tuesday. Fifty! The same 50 Republican senators who spent much of the Biden and Obama eras complaining about rising debt and deficits. The same 50 who pretend to be ‘deficit hawks’ and like to claim the mantle of ‘fiscal responsibility.’
It was all a lie.
Like everything they’ve said about this bill.
