The Republican Senator has refused the application for re -election, not the lie about the devastating damage to Trump’s “Big Big Bill” will make Medicaid.
Tom Tilis (R-NC) accepts elevator in the US Capitol on June 30, 2025 in Washington, Colombia County.
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Tom Tilis, a former speaker of the North Carolina House, who since 2015 Modestly responsible Republican In the US Senate faced the problem. Trump’s White House has tightened the pressure on Congress to take the dangerous agenda contained in what the president called “A great beautiful account“(The bill was approved Senate on Tuesday after Vice President J. D. Vens violated voting for 50-50 ties.) Tilis knew that the reduction of the Medicaid bill is reduced It would be “It follows with tens of billions of dollars of lost funding for North Carolina, including our hospitals and rural settlements.” But he also knew what to say aloud and, without giving in to Trump, could cause a poisonous reaction of the magic.
Tilis had two options. He could either lie and stay on Trump’s good side.
Or he could tell the truth and suffer Trump’s anger.
Tilis chose the truth, and it was the end of it. In the Republican Party, where dissent is no longer allowed, the North Carolinets stopped its political career.
Tillis is not a weak electoral amateur. He was a political operative for decades. And it remains one of the most savvy and experienced Republicans in the Senate. Thus, his story tells us about everything we need to know about the evolution of the great old party, a little more than a rubber stamp for Trump and Trump.
Tilis did not just make a moral and practical argument for processing a “big beautiful bill” to protect Medicaid. He tried prevent Last week, at a republican lunch at a republican lunch at a republican lunch at the Republican lunch at the Republican dinner at the republican lunch, to disperse the Red States in detail, and it is reported that GOP support for these cuts could cost both houses in 2026.
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This was a clear reflection of human and political costs of the bill. But when he asked for republican colleagues to choose the well-being of his own voters and political reality, he practically did not find Tialis in connection with the EGA trip.
Without a team of Republicans who were ready to rise and negotiate with Trump for the best account, Tilis was isolated. And the president found the goal for his political revenge. “Numerous people have spoken up with those who were mostly running against the” Senator “Tom Tilis, Trump announced In social media. “I will meet them in the coming weeks, looking for a person who properly present the great people of North Carolina and, importantly, the United States of America.”
North Carolina is a state that developed a democratic voting model in recent state competitions for the governor, the Prosecutor General and other posts. But its republican party base is even more extreme than the primary GOP voters in the state recently supported some of the the most extreme right -wing candidates In the country. Tilis perceived this threat seriously. He knew that he was unlikely to survive the main task supported by Trump, so he decided to jump before the imminent impetus.
Within a few hours, Trump Tilis, who has already expressed his disappointment with the chaotic character of Trump, announced that he would not look for a third term. “In Washington, over the past few years, it has become increasingly obvious that the leaders who are willing to accept boneysurous skills, compromises and demonstrate independent thinking are becoming endangered” Tilis – Note On Sunday, he added that he was not interested in spending additional “six years in political theater and guerrilla networks in Washington.”
This is a gentle way to say that he is not ready to worship the Republican president who runs the party as a cult of personality.
Being one of the rarest breeds, the republican senator is free to express his opinion, Tilis went to the Senate and declared“It is impossible to betray this bill in the current form that Donald J. Trump (when he met with members of the Republican Committee on the Senate Committee). He said,” We can follow the waste, fraud and abuse “for any programs.” Pointing Trump as at best, the White House’s asshole, Tilis suggested that the White House health experts refused to inform the president that the “big beautiful bill”, which is moving through the Senate on a terrible schedule, will harm people who have the right and qualification for Medicaid. “
“So that I will say 663 000 (North Carolina) in two years, when President Trump violates his promise by repelling them from Medicaid because the financing is gone, guys?” Tilis asked. “I think people in the White House, those who advised the president, do not tell him that the effect of this bill is to break the promise …”
Tilis was right. And it is safe to say that many of his republican colleagues have recognized this reality. But they were more willing to break the promises and “hurt people who are entitled and qualified for Medicaid” than cross Trump. And they cast their votes accordingly. In the end, only Tilis, Rund Paul (R-KY) and Susan Collins (R-me) joined the Senate Democrats, voting “no” by the bill.
Doing this, Republicans confirmed the assessment of American Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), which calls the big Trump bill “the worst legislation in modern American history”. Once Tilis announced that she was throwing, Sanders – Note“I disagree with NC Thom Tillis Senator. But he’s right in this. The Trump Republican Party does not allow independent thought. The Republican Party today is a cult. Either you like Trump or you are.”
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