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  • 7/3/2025
In the end, Democrats were unable to stop Republicans from getting their tax-cuts-and-spending plan across the finish line on Tuesday. But, in conversations with strategists close to the Democratic leaders, they had a pretty clever consolation spin: this bill is the most hated piece of major legislation since at least 1990, and Republicans have no plan to fix that.
GOP strategists seemed to understand the buzzkilling buzzsaw they were marching toward with a grim sense of inevitability. Even then, there was still no guarantee the House would accept the Senate’s rewrite of their work.

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00:00the so-called one big beautiful bill is the most hated piece of major legislation in decades and
00:08republicans seemingly have no plan to fix that the list of haters is long fiscal conservatives
00:15hate the mass of spending here centrist republicans and all democrats despise the deep cuts to programs
00:24that help the poor and the elderly and pragmatists are watching and worrying the gop's biggest donor
00:30elon musk has threatened everyone who voted for the bill with a primary challenge and he's
00:36threatening to throw money toward a new third party we might have to put those on elon but still the
00:43longest list of haters may be the majority of the american public polling shows most folks don't
00:48want anything to do with this so-called one big beautiful bill the level of opposition is truly
00:55historic poli-sci professor chris warshaw at gw has studied the clunker bills over decades and
01:03the dad shows obamacare and the auto bailout were just slightly more unpopular than popular when
01:10they were passed bill clinton's failed healthcare efforts were in similar territory call congress
01:15tell him you want what they have trump's first attempt to repeal obamacare was a total dud in
01:21the polls but also a non-starting reality but trump's one big beautiful bill is more unpopular than not
01:29to the tune of 24 points democrats have made sure their colleagues across the aisle feel the burn
01:36and it's going to be how the 2026 campaign plays out house democrats official campaign arm is
01:42circulating a strategy memo about the 2026 midterms outlining a plan to keep the consequences of this
01:50bill in the headlines for the next 16 months among the republican strategists there's no clear answer
01:57on how to make any of this popular or explain this vote before the senate vote i asked one republican
02:04strategist how do you get through this and his answer was i'm all ears if you have an idea

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