The GOP selected to betray each morality and financial frequent sense by approving Trump’s one huge, ugly invoice.
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Speaker of the Home Mike Johnson, R-La., surrounded by Republican members of Congress, indicators President Donald Trump’s signature invoice of tax breaks and spending cuts, Thursday, July 3, 2025, on the Capitol in Washington.
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Throughout the tortured remaining congressional debate earlier than the US Home of Representatives permitted the legislative monstrosity that Donald Trump dubbed “the one huge, lovely invoice”—and that detractors have extra precisely described as “the one huge ugly invoice”—US Consultant Don Beyer delivered a second of ethical readability.
“From the Gospel of Matthew,” started the Virginia Democrat, who learn aloud from the ground of the Home:
I used to be thirsty, and also you gave me drink.
I used to be a stranger, and also you took me in.
I used to be bare, and also you clothed me.
I used to be sick, and also you visited me.
I used to be in jail, and also you got here unto me.
Inasmuch as you’ve got accomplished it unto one of many least of my brothers, you’ve got accomplished it unto me.
When he had completed the biblical studyingBeyer stated, “Mr. Speaker, the invoice earlier than us takes foods and drinks from the mouths of the poor. It takes healthcare from the sick. A vote for this invoice betrays these Gospel teachings, and in our hearts all of us realize it.”
Beyer was proper. Each member of Congress, be they liberal or conservative, Democratic or Republican, knew that the invoice, which was finally permitted on Thursday by a 218-214 vote, was written in a method that will:
The Trump administration’s main home coverage scheme was unanimously opposed by each Home and Senate Democrats, who acknowledged the ethical and sensible catastrophe that may unfold due to the laws. It was supported by the overwhelming majority of Republicans within the Senate—the place Vice President J.D. Vance broke a 50-50 tie vote—and within the Home, the place all however two GOP members, who usually preach about morality, put apart their consciences so as to do Trump’s bidding.
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Congressional Republicans did their finest to make the controversy about every part however what was within the invoice. They didn’t need to face the ethical implications of what they had been doing to the least of their brothers and sisters. However the fact was unavoidable. Twenty American Catholic bishops and leaders of the Sisters of Mercy neighborhood of Roman Catholic girls joined Lutheran, Episcopalian, Presbyterian, Baptist, African Methodist Episcopal Church, Muslim, and Jewish religion leaders in signing a letter to members of Congress that warned in regards to the methods through which the measure targets asylum-seekers and refugees—and the religion communities that serve them—by inflicting chaos and by driving the working poor deeper into poverty.
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“In keeping with the nonpartisan Congressional Funds Workplace (CBO), the invoice transfers wealth from these within the backside 10 % of earnings to these within the prime 10 % of earnings in our nation, growing the already massive hole between the wealthy and the poor,” defined the His Eminence Cardinal Robert W. McElroy, Archbishop of Washington, DC, and different spiritual leaders, who added that, “From our varied religion views, the ethical check of a nation is the way it treats these most in want of assist. In our view, this laws will hurt the poor and weak in our nation, to the detriment of the frequent good.”
John Nichols
John Nichols is a nationwide affairs correspondent for The Nation. He has written, cowritten, or edited over a dozen books on subjects starting from histories of American socialism and the Democratic Occasion to analyses of US and international media techniques. His newest, cowritten with Senator Bernie Sanders, is the New York Instances bestseller It is OK to Be Indignant About Capitalism.
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