GOP 'going to suffer': Senate Republicans slammed after Trump bill narrowly passes

01 July

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-South Dakota) on February 11, 2025 (Joshua Sukoff/Shutterstock.com)

On Tuesday, July 1, President Donald Trump's "big, beautiful bill" was narrowly passed by the U.S. Senate.

Senate Democrats and their allies, including independent Sen. Bernie Sanders, universally voted against the bill along with three Republicans: North Carolina's Thom Tillis, Maine's Susan Collins and Kentucky's Rand Paul. But Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) voted "yes," and Vice President JD Vance cast a vote that broke a 50-50 tie.

However, the bill now returns to the U.S. House of Representatives for consideration.

An MSNBC panel was quick to react to the bill passing in the U.S. Senate.

Tim Miller, a Never Trump conservative and former GOP strategist, predicted that the bill will pass in the House but said that House Republicans in swing districts will pay a price politically and suffer for it in the 2026 midterms. And he was disappointed that Murkowski voted "yes."

Miller told MSNBC's Chris Jansing, "I think the House will end up falling in line…. I'd love to be surprised…. If you're Lisa Murkowski and you don't think this is a good bill, why vote for it?"

Sen. Peter Welch (D-Vermont), also on the panel, told Jansing, "This does bipartisan harm across the land…. The bill can't be improved, in my view, but there is going to be real contention in the House."

The passing of the bill in the Senate is also receiving a lot of reactions on X, formerly Twitter.

Lincoln Square tweeted, "BREAKING: The Senate Passes Trump's Budget Bill, voting to balloon the deficit to $3.5 trillion, cut healthcare and food assistance to tens of millions of Americans, increase funding ICE enforcement, and codify much of Project 2025 — all to fund tax cuts for the ultra-rich."

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts), a "no" vote, commented, "Republicans tried to kill off new clean energy projects, but we just forced them to take out that terrible provision. There's a lotta awful still in there. But pressure does matter. Keep it up."

CNN's David Wright noted, "NEWS: Senate GOP passes Trump's 'big, beautiful bill' after eleventh-hour scramble, setting up high-stakes fight in the House."

Journalist Henry Goldman posted, "The US Gets Smaller and Meaner Trump Administration Live Updates: Senate Passes Trump’s Signature Policy Bill."

X user Gary McCarthy wrote, "As Trumpolini and the former 'First Broligarch' engage in another war of word salad, the US Senate has passed the 'Big Beautiful Bill' which might just be true for a very few."

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