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Senator Thom Tillis unloads on Trump bill and White House advisers in retirement rant over broken promise to cut real fraud. Senator Tillis’ outburst highlights the core problem with the Big Beautiful Bill – rushed drafting and vague provisions that let special interests hijack reform. The Provider Tax elimination proves the bill’s fatal flaw: mistaking …
Vice President JD Vance has arrived at the Capitol to potentially cast a tiebreaking vote to advance the GOP megabill. He was accompanied by Sen. Eric Schmitt of Missouri, who golfed earlier today with President Donald Trump. Four other GOP senators — Mike Lee of Utah, Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and …
From X: Senator Thom Tillis just slipped a massive gift to Big Pharma, Big Tech, and woke corporations into the “Big Beautiful Bill.” His anti-litigation finance plan (S.1821) slaps a 41% tax on the very tool that helps ordinary Americans fight back in court. This bill protects elites and punishes whistleblowers, inventors, and retirees. It’s …
More proof of them not being there to represent us.
Senators exited the first meeting of the newly formed DOGE Caucus on Thursday morning, attended by both Vivek Ramaswamy and multiple appropriators, with few details on what the so-called Department of Government Efficiency planned to do. Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) said it was “way too early” to identify key priorities of the caucus and emphasized …