📉 FACT CHECK: Most Americans OPPOSE Trump’s “Big Beautiful Budget” — Here’s Why
🎙 Welcome back to The Josh Lafazan Show — where facts matter, and we hold power accountable.
Today we’re diving deep into one of the most dangerous, dishonest, and destructive pieces of legislation in recent memory: Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Budget.”
He calls it a win.
America calls it a scam.
🧾 New polling shows a majority of Americans now reject this bill — and once you see what’s actually inside, you’ll understand why.
In this episode, we break down:
✅ What’s really in the bill
📊 Why voters across the spectrum are furious
🏥 How it guts Medicaid and healthcare access
💸 How it explodes the national deficit
🌲 Why Trump is selling off public lands
🏛 And why this bill is in serious trouble in the U.S. Senate
Let’s get into it. 👇
🟦 NEW POLLING: America HATES This Budget
According to a brand-new Pew poll:
🔻 61% of Americans oppose the budget
🔻 Just 29% support it
🔻 67% of independents and over 70% of young voters disapprove
Even 18% of Republicans say they’re “deeply concerned.”
Trumpworld is panicking — launching a national PR blitz to sell a bill the public has already rejected. But the numbers don’t lie.
🟥 MEDICAID CUTS — 11 MILLION Could Lose Healthcare
Trump’s budget slashes $900 billion from Medicaid over the next decade.
📉 The Congressional Budget Office estimates over 11 million Americans will lose coverage
🏥 Rural hospitals are sounding the alarm about mass closures
💸 States will be forced to reduce eligibility, raise costs, and cut services
This isn’t “draining the swamp.” This is gutting care for the elderly, poor, and disabled — to pay for billionaire tax cuts.
🟨 $4.8 TRILLION Added to the Deficit
Trump claims to be a fiscal conservative. But this budget?
💥 Adds $4.8 trillion to the national debt
💸 Fueled by massive tax breaks for the rich
🛑 Ends pay-as-you-go rules that require spending offsets
📉 Even conservative economists say this could trigger credit downgrades and interest rate hikes
Trump’s spending is reckless — and fiscally fatal.
🌲 LAND GRAB: Selling Off America’s Public Heritage
Buried in the bill is one of the largest land transfers in U.S. history:
🏞 Over 3 million acres of public land up for sale to fossil fuel and mining corporations
🚫 No environmental review. No tribal consultation. No public vote.
📉 Western states like Utah, Nevada, and Colorado are revolting — with bipartisan outrage
This is public land for private profit — plain and simple.
🏛 SENATE REVOLT — Trump Can’t Get the Votes
Though the bill passed the House, it’s hitting a wall in the Senate:
• Moderate Republicans like Collins and Murkowski are balking
• Joe Manchin calls the bill “dead on arrival”
• Even MAGA-aligned senators fear town hall backlash and election risks
➡️ There’s no clear path to 51 votes. And Trump knows it.
❗️WHY AMERICANS REJECT THIS BILL:
Because it’s everything they say they don’t want:
🚫 Punishes the poor, rewards the rich
🚫 Kills healthcare, funds war
🚫 Sells our land, destroys protections
🚫 Adds historic debt with zero benefit for working families
This isn’t budgeting — it’s economic vandalism.
🎯 POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS — 2026 & 2028
Trump hoped this bill would define his return. Instead, it may define his defeat.
🗳 In 2026, Republicans like Mike Garcia (CA), Brandon Williams (NY), and Anna Paulina Luna (FL) are now top Democratic targets
🗳 In 2028, this budget could haunt Trump in every ad — showing seniors losing Medicaid, forests bulldozed, and billionaires cashing in
Even Trump allies admit: “This bill is toxic — and it’s going to cost us.”
💬 Let us know in the comments:
Do you support or oppose Trump’s budget?
Should public land be sold off to private developers?
And how should Democrats fight back?