Senate Cracks 51–50, Fallout Begins: Trump’s MegaBill Spurs National UPROAR

Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” scraped through the Senate in a tense 51–50 vote, with Vice President JD Vance breaking the tie. But if this was supposed to be a victory lap for the GOP, critics weren’t having it.

Governor Kathy Hochul called it “Trump’s Big Ugly Bill,” warning it would “devastate New Yorkers” with deep cuts to Medicaid, SNAP, and hospital funding. “Food prices will rise. Hospitals will shutter. All during a national affordability crisis.”

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand denounced it as “a big, beautiful betrayal of the American people,” arguing it guts support for working families while padding corporate profits.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer accused Republicans of “gutting clean energy, crushing health care, and lying about job creation,” saying voters would make them “regret every page.”

And then came Elon Musk.

The tech mogul torched the bill as “utterly insane and destructive,” warning it would “destroy millions of jobs in America and cause immense strategic harm”. He slammed the legislation for giving “handouts to industries of the past while severely damaging industries of the future”. In a separate post, Musk called it “a disgusting abomination” and told lawmakers: “Shame on those who voted for it: you know you did wrong”. He even floated the idea of launching a third party to challenge what he called the “PORKY PIG PARTY” of Washington.

Still, a few voices cheered the bill’s passage.

Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-NY) hailed it as “the LARGEST mandatory spending cut in history,” praising its rollback of funding for “illegal immigrants & woke policies” and touting “MORE tax relief for hardworking Americans.”