Tara Palmeri: “It’s not just a bill — it’s President Trump’s entire legislative agenda wrapped into one. The only major piece of legislation this Congress will pass. And, some argue, the very reason many of these Republicans were elected in the first place.”
“It’s border policy. It’s defense spending.
It’s tax cuts. It’s health care. Trump is handling everything else unilaterally — even the real wars and the trade wars — so this bill is it.”“But behind closed doors, there’s real anxiety. Especially around the Medicaid cuts. They know it could come back to bite them in the midterms.”
Said one Republican lawmaker: “The Democrats are rooting for us to fuck ourselves on Medicaid.”