Exclusive - Minority Democrats are warning when House Republican leaders raise President Donald Trump’s so-called “big and beautiful bill” to this week’s floor vote.
Rep. Suzan Delbene, the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, pointed out in a digital interview with Fox News that he pointed to next year's midterm elections.
Republicans are currently holding a huge majority in the chamber of commerce, and Democrats only need three pickup trucks to win a House majority in the 2026 election.
Furthermore, they believe that grand and controversial measures filled with Trump’s second priorities in terms of tax breaks, immigration, defense, energy and debt restrictions are now being achieved through many votes and obstacles in the House (as political ammunition).
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President Donald Trump leaves, House Speaker Mick Johnson (R-La). (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc, via Getty Images)
"This is a terrible legislation," Del Bayn believes.
Democrats from all over the party have reorganized Republicans’ Medicaid, a nearly 60-year-old federal government program that provides health insurance for approximately 71 million adults and children with limited income.
"What we know is that all Republicans are talking about now is how many people and how fast they will take health care. They have these huge cuts to Medicaid, and 14 million people have lost health care nationwide, and they are talking about the speed they can do it," Delbene accused Tuesday.
She claimed that House Republicans “all followed the president blindly and followed him blindly off the cliff.”
Rep. Ted Lieu of California, another member of the Democratic Party leader, argued that he raised questions from journalists that the bill was “the largest health care layoff in U.S. history.”
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The Medicaid cuts were drafted in part to offset the extension of Trump's 2017 tax cuts, which will expire later this year, including a series of new regulations and regulatory requirements for those seeking coverage. There are new job requirements for many of them seeking coverage.
"When you talk to people, people are angry, they are scared. They are scared of health care cuts, not only cutting 14 million people from health care, but also raising costs for everyone and things like rural hospital closures," Del Bayn said. "This will have a devastating impact across the country. This is the policy that the Republicans are fighting for, reducing nutritional health programs to keep families from even healthy food."
House Republicans oppose the Democratic attack and say what they are doing is ending the current waste, fraud and abuse in the Medicaid system, so the program can work for the public the way it is expected.
Any speech they call them cut aid by mothers, children, disabled people and older people is called "lie."
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Delbene retorted: "We are not buying this argument because what we see on the committee, what they write on paper is a massive cut in health care, all of which pays for the wealthiest tax breaks in our country. It's not a bill about helping working families. This bill has wreak havoc on working families."
But Rep. Richard Hudson, the NRC's rival, told Fox News in a statement, "Republicans end waste, fraud and abuse in Medicaid, so the most vulnerable people are the care they need."
Rep. Richard Hudson, chairman of the National Republican Congress Committee, gave an interview to Fox News Digital in Washington, D.C. on April 7, 2025. (Fox News - Paul Steinhauser)
In addition, Hudson believes: “Democrats are lying to protect the status quo and breaking illegal immigrant Siphon out of billions of dollars. We are strengthening Medicaid for future generations by protecting taxpayers and restoring integrity.”
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Dating back to last year's presidential election, Trump vowed not to touch Medicaid. When he paused Tuesday on Capitol Hill to meet with House Republicans behind closed doors in support of the bill, Trump’s message to fiscally conservative lawmakers who hope to cut Medicaid further was “Don’t go with Medicaid.”
Despite the differences between Republicans on Medicaid, and the gap between the two major parties in the long-standing rights program, the issue will continue to slow the fire in one form or another in the campaign for a long time after the legislative war on Capitol Hill.