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ShowMay 22, 2025
Watch: Why Is Trump's Big Beautiful Bill Making the Left so Angry?
The House passed the Big, Beautiful Bill. Today’s show breaks down the noise and tells you what’s actually in it.
According to Fox News:
The bill is a sweeping multi-trillion-dollar piece of legislation that advances Trump's agenda on taxes, immigration, energy, defense and the national debt. It's sought to make a dent in the federal government's spending trajectory by cutting roughly $1.5 trillion in government spending elsewhere. The U.S. government is over $36 trillion in debt and has spent $1.05 trillion more than it's collected in the 2025 fiscal year, according to the Treasury Department.
Democratic lawmakers attempted a variety of delay tactics, from introducing amendments targeting key Trump policies to forcing several procedural votes on the House floor ahead of debate on the legislation.
The bill seeks to permanently extend Trump's 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) while also implementing newer Trump campaign promises like eliminating taxes on tips and overtime pay, and giving senior citizens a higher tax deduction for a period of four years.
Something the left is upset about is that the bill imposes some work requirements “for able-bodied Medicaid recipients.”
"It only affects able-bodied childless adults," Crowder said. "Not people at retirement age. If you are young but not able-bodied, this does not affect you. If you are young and able-bodied but have children, it does not affect you.”
Cuts include new work requirements for able-bodied Medicaid recipients, as well as putting more of the cost-sharing burden on states that took advantage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA)'s expanded Medicaid enrollment by giving illegal immigrants access to the healthcare program.
"Now, 23 percent of Medicaid recipients are childless, able-bodied adults. That number can be as high as 18 million people," Crowder said.
It also would cut the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) by roughly 20% by introducing some cost-sharing burdens on the states and increasing the amount of able-bodied Americans facing work requirements to be eligible for food stamps.
"If you have been receiving these benefits for years or a decade and you are an able-bodied 30-year-old with no children, you need to work part-time to get something from the American worker who is busting their a**," Crowder said.
This also shuts down benefits for illegal immigrants, despite Hakeem Jeffries claiming that’s a myth.
“As far as them benefiting from funding that ultimately comes from Medicaid, 1.4 million illegal aliens will no longer get that free ride,” Crowder said.
All House Democrats rejected the bill, accusing Republicans of disproportionately favoring the wealthy at the expense of critical programs for working Americans. Republicans, on the other hand, have contended that they are preserving tax cuts that prevent a 22% tax increase on Americans next year if TCJA was allowed to expire, as well as streamlining programs like Medicaid and SNAP for vulnerable Americans who need it most.
"This is really easy to fact-check. If the left is telling you they are taking Medicaid away from grandma or grandpa or a disabled veteran, they are lying to you and they are knowingly lying to you,” Crowder said.
This will also cut $267 billion in funding for SNAP over the next decade, as it adds some work requirements.
"I don't want to live in a country where noncontributors can collect checks," Crowder said. "I get that some people fall on tough times, but these are career and chronically unemployed people who are now protesting the very idea of working 20 hours a week.”
Do you think it’s fair to ask these people to contribute just 20 hours a week at a place like Starbucks?
“This is the only time in human history where there has been one group in this country where we can have no expectations and build a society around people who contribute nothing,” Crowder said. “That has never happened.”
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