'A dark day for our country': Democrats furious over Trump bill's passage

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Democrats have erupted in a storm of outrage over the passage of Donald Trump’s budget bill, delivering scathing critiques that offered signs of the attack lines the party could wield against Republicans in next year’s midterm elections.

Party leaders released a wave of statements after the sweeping tax and spending bill’s passage on Thursday, revealing a fury that could peel paint off a brick outhouse.

“Today, Donald Trump and the Republican party sent a message to America: if you are not a billionaire, we don’t give a damn about you,” said Ken Martin, the Democratic National Committee chair.

“While the GOP continues to cash their billionaire donors’ checks, their constituents will starve, lose critical medical care, lose their jobs – and yes, some will die as a result of this bill. Democrats are mobilizing and will fight back to make sure everybody knows exactly who is responsible for one of the worst bills in our nation’s history.”

The bill’s narrow passage in the House on Thursday, with no Democratic support and only two no votes from Republicans – which came from Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania – is “not normal”, wrote congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/04/democrats-trump-bill

I have no use for Massie, but I'll hand him a bone on this one. Fitzpatrick I don't know at all so I'll pass.

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1. I hope their anger is funneled into finding ways to minimize adverse impact of the cruddy Bill.

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2. Fitzpatrick is in danger of losing his seat to a Dem

I'm sure he was "allowed" to vote no in the hopes it will help Rs keep the seat.