The Butt Ugly Bill That Screws Everyone (Except Billionaires)

Republicans passed it. Trump signed it. And their own voters are about to find out what’s in it.

Let’s keep this simple.

Donald Trump and the Republicans just passed something they called the “Big Beautiful Bill.” What it really is, though, is more like the “Butt Ugly Bill”—because once people figure out what it actually does, nobody’s going to call it beautiful unless they’re a billionaire or a bond trader.

Here’s the punchline: the people who are about to get hurt the worst? The ones who voted for it. Or rather, voted for the guy who signed it with a grin and a Sharpie on the Fourth of July, no less. Because nothing says freedom like cutting health care, food aid, and public schools.

Let’s look at a few “fun” highlights:

• Nearly $1 Trillion slashed from Medicaid. That’s not a typo. That’s health care for seniors, people with disabilities, poor kids, and low-wage workers. All diminished and headed for repeated denials for service.

• ACA subsidies end January 1, 2026. If you get your health insurance through the exchange, you might want to start looking into GoFundMe. Millions—yes, millions—will lose coverage right before the election, but the today’s Republican Congressional leaders think you’re too stupid to make the connection that they choose to hurt you to benefit their donor base.

• Food stamps? Shrunk. That means kids in poor families go hungry. I guess Republicans are big believers in “tough love” when it comes to other people’s children. Last time, I looked at Trump’s five children by his three wives (and the multiple grandchildren he barely knows), they did not look hungry.

• Cuts to home care services. If your elderly parent or disabled adult child was getting help at home, they might be headed for a waiting list—or a nursing home, or an earlier death.

And all of this? Signed into law by the same guy who told a stadium full of people that he was fighting for “the forgotten man and woman.” Well, they’re about to feel remembered in all the worst ways.

Now, here’s where it gets ironic. The people who are going to feel this first—rural voters, folks in small towns, working-class Americans without employer coverage—they aren’t reading think tank reports. They’ll know this bill sucks when the pharmacist tells them their medication costs five times more into hundreds of dollars, because their Medicaid or private insurance don’t cover the needed medication. Or when the school nurse gets laid off. Or when grandma’s caregiver stops coming.

And trust me, they’ll be talking about it. In town halls, diners, neighborhood bars, beauty salons, and job sites.

But by then? The damage is already done. And the GOP will be too busy trying to spin it as “tough choices” while blaming Biden, immigrants, windmills or solar panels.

Meanwhile, billionaires like Elon, Zuck and Bezos will just sit back and smile. They’ll be fine. They always are. The Butt Ugly Bill doesn’t touch them. It just makes it easier to scoop up what’s left when the government stops helping people.

So, here’s my message to anyone who voted for this crew thinking they were on your side:

You didn’t vote for a rescue mission. You voted for a demolition crew. And they just pulled the last beam out from under your house.

Good luck finding someone to pay for the rebuild.

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Like what you read? Share it with five friends most likely to want to save America from being destroyed by its own leaders. I write this column in the hope that others will spread the message and a public demand to repeal the Butt Ugly Bill will grow. Also, at my age I’m hoping not to supplement my retirement income by sacking groceries again at the local Safeway.