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RN.C. Senator Thom Tillis condemned President Donald Trump’s “Big of Beautiful Bill.”
Tillis votes against a motion to make a spending plan on Saturday, then Announced retirement On Sunday, with political polarization and a desire to spend time with family.
He then went to the Senate Building late Sunday, warning that “Republicans will make mistakes in health care and betray Medicaid promises” if the packaging clears the upper room,
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Senator Thom Tillis, RN.C. , held on Friday, June 27, 2025 at the U.S. Capitol. (Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“Inevitably, the current bill would betray Donald J. Trump’s assurances made in the Oval Office or Cabinet Room,” Tillis said. “Now, those amateurs who advise him, rather than Dr. Oz, I’m talking about White House health care experts, refusing to tell him that the instructions to eliminate waste, fraud and abuse suddenly eliminated the government program, which is called the provider tax. We have abused the legal buildings, and these legal structures have been abused and have caused waste, waste, read, read.
“I told the President that you’ve been misled,” Tillis said. “You support the Senate trademark that will harm people who are eligible and eligible for Medicaid.”
“I love the job requirements. I love the other reforms in this bill. They are necessary and I thank the leadership of the house for putting it there,” Tillis said. “But we are doing things because we have some understanding of the manual deadline on July 4, which means another date for the time.
The two-term senator said he consulted with Republican experts in the state legislature and Democrats remain loyal to it, Governor Josh Stein and independent agencies from the Hospital Association to understand how provider tax cuts will affect North Carolinas. In the best case scenario, these findings show federal support for Medicaid cuts by $26 billion. Tillis said he introduced the report to Dr. Mehmet Oz, the Medicare & Medicaid Services Center Administrator.
“After three different attempts, they discredited our estimates, and the day before, they admitted we were right,” Tillis said. “They couldn’t find a hole in my estimate.”
Senator Tom Tillis (RN.C. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
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“So, when President Trump breaks his promise, I’ll tell 663,000 people because the funds are no longer there, breaking his promise, guys?” Tillis said. “I think people in the White House, the people who advised the president didn’t tell him that the effect of this bill was to break the promise, you know if the last time I saw a promise of health care, you were on the other side of the aisle, and it was my friend, and that’s what somebody said if you like your health care, if you’re like a doctor, you can keep it, you can keep it.’’ We found that it wasn’t true.”
In promoting the Affordable Care Act (ACA) It is known as Obamacare, From 2009 to 2010, former President Barack Obama repeatedly claimed, “If you like your healthcare plan, you can keep it. If you like a doctor, you can keep it.” Tillis argued that it was the failure of the program that led him to become the second Republican spokesman in the North Carolina House of Representatives since the Civil War, and later he was elected to the U.S. Senate.
Trump celebrated Tillis’ retirement announcement and warned other “cost cutback Republicans.”
“I’m a person for all the Republicans who cut costs, remember that you still have to be re-elected. Don’t be too crazy!” Trump wrote Sunday night. “We will grow more than ever over time.”
Senator Thom Tillis, Senator Jerome Powell questioned Fed Chairman Jerome Powell on Wednesday, June 25, 2025 during the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc, via Getty Images)
After the Senate speech, Tillis told reporters that he told Trump that he “may need to start looking for a replacement.”
“I told him I wanted to help him,” Tillis said. To Politico. “I hope we can get a good candidate who can help and we can successfully get 2026.”
The senator told reporters that Trump “gets a lot of advice from people who have never ruled, and all they do is write a white paper.” He condemned “people in the ivory towers brought him into the canyon of the box.”
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In his Retirement announcement, “It is becoming increasingly obvious that leaders willing to accept a two-party system, compromise and demonstrate independent thinking are becoming an endangered species,” Tillis said.
