Medicaid cuts into Trump’s “beautiful bill”, denounced by the retirement of Senator Tillis

Senator Thom Tillis, RN.C., denounced “Big and Beautiful Bill” by President Donald Trump, just a few hours after the surprise he would not show up for a third term in 2026.

Tillis voted against a motion to pay the expense for the expense on Saturday, then announced his retirement on Sunday, citing political polarization and the desire to spend more time with the family.

He then went to the Senate later Sunday to warn that “the Republicans are about to make a mistake on health care and betray a promise” on Medicaid if the packaging erase the upper room.

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Senator Thom Tillis, RN.C., at the American Capitol on Friday, June 27, 2025. (GRAEME SLOAN / BLOOMBERG via Getty Images)

“It is essential that this bill in its current form betrays the very promise that Donald J. Trump made in the oval office or in the cabinet room when I was there with finance. He said:” We can go after waste, fraud and abuses “on all programs,” said Tillis. “Now, these amateurs who advise him, not Dr. Oz, I’m talking about White House health experts, I refuse to tell him that the instructions that had to eliminate waste, fraud and abuse, suddenly eliminate a government program called the supplier tax. We have moved a legal construction that has certainly been abused and that should be eliminated in fraud and abuse.

“I tell the president that you were misinformed,” said Tillis. “You support the Senate brand will injure eligible and qualified people for Medicaid.”

“I love the work requirement. I love the other reforms of this bill. They are necessary, and I appreciate the management of the Chamber for having put it there,” said Tillis. “But what we do, because we have a view of an artificial deadline on July 4, that means nothing other than another date in time. We could take the time to do things well if we deposit the brand of the MEDICAIDE bill and repair it.”

The senator with two mandates said that he had consulted republican experts in the state legislature, Democrats loyal to Governor Josh Stein and an independent organization of the Hospitals association to have an overview of how supplier tax reductions would have an impact on North Carolinians. In the best case, he said, the results showed a reduction of $ 26 billion in federal support in Medicaid. Tillis said he had presented the report to the administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Dr. Mehmet Oz.

“After three different attempts to discredit our estimates, the day before yesterday, they admitted that we were right,” said Tillis. “They cannot find a hole in my estimate.”

Senator Thom Tillis, RN.C., speaks to journalists while going to the Senate House at the American Capitol on June 25, 2025 in Washington, DC (Images Kevin Dietsch / Getty)

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“So what should I say to 663,000 people in two years or three years when President Trump breaks his promise by pushing them from Medicaid because the funding is no longer there, guys?” Said Tillis. “I think that the inhabitants of the White House, those who advise the president do not tell him that the effect of this bill is to break a promise, and do you know the last time I saw a promise broken around health care? As for my friends on the other side of the aisle, it is when someone said:” If you like your health care, you can keep it, you can keep it. “We discovered that it was not true.”

By promoting the affordable care law (ACA), also known as Obamacare, from 2009 to 2010, former President Barack Obama said on several occasions: “If you like your health plan, you can keep it. If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.” Tillis argued that it was the failures of this package that led him to become the second republican president of the North Carolina Chamber since the Civil War and later in her elections in the American Senate.

Trump celebrated the announcement of Tillis’ retirement and issued a warning to other “cost reduction republicans”.

“For all the republicans of cost reduction, of which I am one, remember, you must always be re-elected. Don’t go too crazy!” Trump wrote Sunday evening. “We are going to do everything, times 10, with growth, more than ever.”

Senator Thom Tillis, Rn. (Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call, included via Getty Images)

After his speech by the Senate, Tillis told journalists that he had told Trump that he “probably needed to start looking for a replacement.”

“I told him I wanted to help him,” said Tillis, according to in Politico. “I hope we will get a good candidate that I can help and have a successful 2026.”

The senator told journalists that Trump “gets a lot of advice from people who have never governed and that all they have done was written white buses.” He condemned “people from an ivory tower leading him to a canyon of a box”.

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In his retirement announcement, Tillis said that “he has become more and more obvious that leaders who are ready to adopt bipartite, compromise and demonstrate an independent thought become an endangered species”.