Caller: Stop the distraction. The Big Beautiful Bill’s danger is much more than Medicaid & SNAP.

An intelligent caller admonished a MAGA caller and urged all not to get distracted by Trump flooding the zone. The bill is worse than advertised. It’s not just Medicaid and SNAP, but all bad.

The danger is much more than Medicaid & SNAP.

The KPFT caller’s intervention slices through beltway chatter to reveal an inconvenient truth: the “One Big Beautiful Bill” is not a routine budget measure but a Trojan horse that hollows out the public sphere and redirects power upward. The Congressional Budget Office confirms that its deepest cuts target Medicaid — $864 billion — while shrinking SNAP by another $267 billion, ejecting millions of seniors, children, and low-wage workers from basic coverage and nutrition support. These provisions alone would reverse the post-COVID gains in health and food security, widen racial health gaps, and saddle state budgets with impossible choices.

Yet health programs are just the opening act. The bill rewrites tax rules to reward multinational capital while penalizing Main Street enterprises. Skadden’s initial analysis notes that the measure pares back the Section 199A deduction and…

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