


What becomes of Republicans who cross King Donald?
We analysed 52,792 social-media posts to find out
DONALD TRUMP’S One Big Beautiful Bill act (BBB) is a Frankenstein’s monster of hand-outs, carve-outs, tax cuts and ideological splurges and purges. Independent analysis suggests it will increase America’s deficit, stunt the economy and hit the poorest hardest. A recent poll by YouGov and The Economist found that just over one in three Americans support the bill. Elon Musk, a big Republican donor and a former “first buddy” of Mr Trump, is so unhappy that he is proposing to create a new political party. Even so, only five Republican members of Congress voted against it—fewer than any budget of Mr Trump’s first term.
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