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This KFF poll on Needy Amin's Big Bullshit Bill is guaranteed to make you go "WTF?"
The take-away here should be pretty clear. LOOK at how many people STILL SUPPORT THE BILL after learning about how many people would be DESTROYED by it.Nearly two-thirds of adults oppose President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” approved in May by the House of Representatives, according to a KFF poll released Tuesday.
And even Trump’s most ardent supporters like the legislation a lot less when they learn how it would cut federal spending on health programs, the poll shows.
The KFF poll found that about 61% of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents — and 72% of the subset who identify with Trump’s “Make American Great Again” movement — support the bill, which would extend many of Trump’s 2017 tax cuts while reducing spending on domestic programs, including cutting billions from Medicaid.
For example, after being told that the bill would decrease funding for local hospitals and increase the number of people without health insurance, support among those who back MAGA dropped more than 20 percentage points — resulting in less than half the group still backing the bill.
https://www.rawstory.com/maga-backers-like-trumps-big-beautiful-bill-until-they-learn-of-health-co/
And even Trump’s most ardent supporters like the legislation a lot less when they learn how it would cut federal spending on health programs, the poll shows.
The KFF poll found that about 61% of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents — and 72% of the subset who identify with Trump’s “Make American Great Again” movement — support the bill, which would extend many of Trump’s 2017 tax cuts while reducing spending on domestic programs, including cutting billions from Medicaid.
For example, after being told that the bill would decrease funding for local hospitals and increase the number of people without health insurance, support among those who back MAGA dropped more than 20 percentage points — resulting in less than half the group still backing the bill.
https://www.rawstory.com/maga-backers-like-trumps-big-beautiful-bill-until-they-learn-of-health-co/
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