President Donald Trump’s 940-page Big Ugly Bill was passed today by the House and is now on the way to the White House for Trump’s signature.

It is a disgrace. It takes more than $1 trillion out of Medicaid—leaving about 12 million Americans without insurance by 2034—and slashes Food Stamps, all to give a giant tax cut to wealthy Americans.

It establishes an anti-immigrant police state in America, replete with a standing army of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and a gulag of detention facilities that will transform ICE into the most heavily funded law enforcement agency in the government.

The best analogy isn’t to Lyndon Johnson. It’s to the “strongmen” of the 1930s—Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, and Franco.

It will increase the already-bloated deficit by $3.4 trillion.

It’s also disgraceful because of how it came to be.

Trump was elected with only a plurality of American voters, not a majority. He eked out his win by a margin of only 1.5%.

His Big Ugly Bill squeaked by in the Senate by one vote, supplied by Vice President JD Vance, and by just two votes in the House. No Democrat in either chamber voted for it.

Polls show most Americans oppose it.

It was passed nevertheless—within an artificial deadline set by Trump—because of Trump’s total grip on the Republican Party.

Republican lawmakers feared that Trump would go after defectors with public attacks or endorsements of........

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