Monday, 09 June 2025

President Trump: He’s a “Grandstander” Who Should Be “Voted Out Of Office”!

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President Trump criticized Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) for jeopardizing the passage of his agenda in the ‘One Big Beautiful Bill Act.’

According to the New York Post, Massie has opposed every procedural move to advance the bill in Congress.

“I don’t think Thomas Massie understands government. I think he’s a grandstander,” Trump said.

I think he should be voted out of office,” he added.

WATCH:

From the New York Post:

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Moments before his broadside, Trump had insisted that the Republican Party remains unified despite the drama over what is meant to be its signature legislative achievement of the year.

“It’s not a question of holdouts, we have a tremendously unified party,” the president added. “I don’t think we’ve ever had a party like this. There are some people that want a couple of things that maybe I don’t like or they’re not going to get.”

Trump did acknowledge that Republican lawmakers have “gotta make a couple of tweaks” to the bill before a possible vote on final passage.

Johnson is hoping to get the megabill through the House by the end of the week, but is grappling with satisfying all 220 members of his conference and can only afford three defections if the full conference votes.

“I don’t think there’s anybody that’s more well-suited to be speaker of the House,” Trump added of Johnson, describing himself as a “big fan” of the Louisianan.

The legislation includes an extension of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, no taxes on tips, no taxes on overtime pay, and more spending on defense and border security.

“The Big Beautiful Bill will add $20 trillion of federal debt over 10 years, and that’s according to the authors of it. But there’s another huge problem: it will increase the price of the $36 trillion of debt we already have, as bond buyers realize we aren’t fiscally responsible,” Massie previously said.

The Hill reports:

A White House official said that Trump made clear in the meeting that he’s losing patience with all holdout factions of the conference, including the SALT Caucus and the House Freedom Caucus, and he insisted every Republican should vote “yes.”

His main requests to the conference were not to let SALT impede this bill, arguing that Republicans can fight for SALT later on; not to touch Medicaid except for eliminating waste, fraud, and abuse like booting off those who entered the country illegally and instituting common sense work requirements; and to stick together and get the bill done, a White House official told The Hill.

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The president told lawmakers in the closed-door meeting to “let SALT go,” arguing concerns over the provision can’t get in the way of passing the bill. He signaled he was supportive of raising the SALT deduction from $10,000 to $30,000 for anyone making $400,000 or less — the proposal currently in the bill that members of the SALT Caucus have vocally rejected.

He took specific aim at Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.), who has been outspoken about making greater changes to the SALT deduction.

“I know your district better than you do,” Trump told Lawler, according to a source. “If you lose because of SALT, you were going to lose anyway.”

Trump was also adamant about avoiding major changes to Medicaid.

“Don’t f— around with Medicaid,” Trump told lawmakers in the private meeting.

“@SpeakerJohnson met with the SALT Caucus late last night. Here’s the offer he privately made them on state and local deduction cap,” Punchbowl News founder Jake Sherman said.

“$40,000 SALT deduction cap. NO marriage penalty. Capped at $751,000 income level. Snaps back to $30,000 after four years. This won’t be enough to bring the SALTers on board, most likely. They want 10 years. And marriage penalty. Offer described by several sources involved in the crafting of the deal on both sides,” he added.

“Republicans going to bat for tax deductions that will primarily benefit limousine liberals in blue states. This carve out for affluent people in states like NY and California will increase the deficit substantially and is a reversal of Trump’s first term tax policy,” Massie commented.


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