Vote-a-Rama on the "Big, Ugly Budget Bill" This Weekend

Thankfully, the Senate Proletarian strikes some of the worst "poison pills" in the proposed bill.

Senator Thune is targeting a vote this Friday, June 27, with expectations that debate and push for adjustments will last overnight before the updated bill language heads back to the U.S. House. They're working to deliver a final budget to the T$ump administration by the July 4th holiday.

We've got a few more days to contact Iowa's federal representatives.

There's still plenty of ugly in the Senate version of the "Big, beautiful bill."

• Georgetown University estimates over $1 TRILLION in health care cuts across Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act Marketplace, plus millions of parents and children losing their healthcare and SNAP benefits. Nearly 300 rural hospitals would face closure.

• Watch a short explainer about the proposed Medicaid cuts from Senator Andy Kim (D-New Jersey)

• "News Not Noise" @jessicayelllin provides great visuals re: what this "Big Ugly Bill" 

• Plus, the "trickle-down" tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy

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Below are some of the "poison pills" the Senate Parliamentarian E. MacDonough noted are NOT budget-related and would need 60 votes to pass, which may give us a slight reprieve.

• The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau can't be dismantled via budget reconciliation... for now.

  • Republicans in the Senate proposed zeroing out funding for the CFPB, the landmark agency set up in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, to save $6.4 billion.

• Pushing SNAP costs back to states to cover

  • "On Saturday, Senator John Boozman, Republican of Arkansas and the chairman of the Agriculture Committee, said G.O.P. senators would continue to try to find a way to cut food assistance that complied with Senate rules." New York Times 6/21/25

• Limiting judicial oversight

  • Republican senators had sought to bar federal judges from issuing a preliminary injunction or temporary restraining order against the federal government, unless the challengers had put up a financial security, or a money bond.

• Sale of nearly 2 million acres of public lands across 12 Western states courtesy of Utah Senator Mike Lee