Having narrowly passed in a 215-214 vote in the U.S. House of Representatives, President Donald Trump's "big, beautiful bill" went to the U.S. Senate for considerations. Trump is claiming that the bill's steep cuts to Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) are merely targeting "waste, fraud and abuse" and won't hurt voters who are truly needy, but former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele is warning that the cuts will be harmful to the president's working-class voters.

During a Friday afternoon, May 30 appearance on MSNBC, Steele predicted that the U.S. Senate "will eventually capitulate and give Donald Trump probably most of, if not all, of what he wants."

"The cuts are going to be made," a frustrated Steele told MSNBC host Chris Jansing, "and then, they're going to have to go out to the country and explain to our poor and those who are in dire need of health care why those services that they rely on — like food and SNAP programs, health care programs — have been cut. That's the Republicans' reality right now. You can talk about a big, beautiful bill all day, but at the end of the day, the weight of that bill (that) is going to land on the back of the very constituents that you clearly don't care about."

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Steele's MSNBC appearance came ahead of a media event with Trump and Tesla/SpaceX/X.com owner Elon Musk, who recently wrapped up his work with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) for the Trump Administration.

Steele said of Trump and other Republicans, "You care more about what Musk is doing and how he's doing it than the impact and the effect it has had on your constituents, which is why you stopped having town halls and won't talk to people about the stuff that you've allowed him to do."

House Republicans, Steele lamented, have been "wholly feckless in stopping any of this."

During the interview, Steele also discussed Trump's relationship with Musk — and argued that he will have a long-lasting impact on the Trump Administration and the federal government.

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Steele told Jansing, "Look, the distancing of Elon Musk is not dramatic. It's not some, you know, outside-the-norm news story. It is consistent with the process. He served his purpose early on. He was in a special federal position that had a limited time frame. So the whole idea that he was going to be there for two years never was going to be a reality, because he was in a limited- purpose job, very specifically outlined."

Musk, Steele added, "is still getting what he needs" from Trump "on the back end."

The former RNC chairman told Jansing, "Musk has now gone into the federal government and put his servers in critical government buildings and operations, and is collecting data. I mean, no one's talking about the fact that Musk is leaving the White House, but his computers are still in the building — still collecting data, still gathering your information. My information, everybody's information. What are we doing about that?"

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