It didn’t take lengthy after Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) introduced his retirement for the masks to come back off.
Simply hours after revealing he won’t seek re-election, the North Carolina senator took to the Senate flooring and unleashed a scathing tirade in opposition to President Trump’s signature “Massive, Stunning Invoice” — a sweeping America First legislative package deal geared toward slashing wasteful spending and ending taxpayer-funded handouts to noncitizens.
One of many key provisions within the invoice? Defunding Medicaid for unlawful aliens, refugees, and asylum seekers.
BREAKING: Defunding Medicare for noncitizens, refugees, asylum seekers is BACK IN the Massive Stunning Invoice…Senate Republicans managed to work AROUND the Democrat Senate Parliamentarian’s prior ruling, per Punchbowl.
GOOD!
Now, FIRE HER as soon as this passes! No extra! pic.twitter.com/thCudLUaKw
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) June 29, 2025
However apparently, that was an excessive amount of for Senator Tillis.
Tillis tried to justify his no vote by touting his previous life in “administration consulting” and his outdated Speaker days in North Carolina.
Tillis whined that the invoice’s Medicaid reforms would damage North Carolina by chopping billions in supplier taxes.
Tillis overtly claimed that Trump would “break his promise” to Medicaid recipients — evaluating Trump’s reforms to Barack Obama’s notorious lie: “If you happen to like your physician, you’ll be able to preserve your physician.”
Tillis: Republicans are about to make a mistake on well being care and betray a promise. It’s inescapable that this invoice in its present type will betray the very promise that Donald J. Trump made within the Oval Workplace—or within the Cupboard Room, after I was there with Finance—the place he stated, “We are able to go after waste, fraud, and abuse on any applications.”
Now, these amateurs which might be advising him—not Dr. Oz, I’m speaking about White Home well being care consultants—refuse to inform him that these directions to remove waste, fraud, and abuse impulsively remove a authorities program that’s referred to as the supplier tax. Now we have morphed a authorized assemble that admittedly has been abused and ought to be eradicated into “waste, fraud, and abuse”—cash laundering.
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The information matter. The folks matter. The Senate’s Medicaid strategy breaks guarantees and can kick folks off of Medicaid who really want it. The Senate could make one easy repair to ensure that gained’t occur. pic.twitter.com/zvW1AgCxBF
— Senator Thom Tillis (@SenThomTillis) June 30, 2025
