I know news of President Donald Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill" has been flooding your timeline (and probably your brain). The Washington Post / The Washington Post via Getty Images The domestic policy megabill, which focuses on tax cuts, border control and immigration, and slashing social services to cut spending, could become the defining legislation of Trump's second term. It passed in both the Senate and the House, then was signed into law by Trump on July 4.
Senator Elizabeth Warren, a progressive Democrat from Massachusetts, made a video in the car as she left the Capitol after voting on the bill last Tuesday. senwarren / Instagram / Via reddit.com Related: 5 Absolutely Horrifying Ways Republicans Are Explaining Why They're Fine With People Losing Healthcare "I'm leaving the Senate now," she says. "At the end of the vote, when the Republicans won, they cheered."
senwarren / Instagram / Via reddit.com "They cheered over taking away healthcare from around 17 million people." senwarren / Instagram / Via reddit.com Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement "They cheered over giving huge tax breaks to a handful of billionaires." senwarren / Instagram / Via reddit.com "They cheered over running up the national debt by another three and a half trillion dollars."
senwarren / Instagram / Via reddit.com "You know, this bill, it's bad. It's bad economically. It's bad morally," Warren says.
"This bill is just wrong." senwarren / Instagram / Via reddit.com Related: A NSFW Float Depicting Donald Trump's "MAGA" Penis Was Just Paraded Around Germany, And It's…Something Then, though, she tries to give fellow progressives a glimmer of hope. "But, we stay in the fight," she repeats three times.
"And we proved why we stay in the fight, because actually, there are pieces of this bill that we got better." senwarren / Instagram / Via reddit.com "We got the tax on solar and wind knocked out, and that's gonna help with clean energy. We got a few different pieces and made them better," she says.
"So that's reason number one. It's always the reminder. All of those calls matter."
Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement senwarren / Instagram / Via reddit.com "Reason number two is it's still not over. The bill has now gotta go back over to the House. And there are a lot of Republicans who are feeling really squeamish about this bill at this point," Warren reminds people.
"So that means we gotta stay in the fight." senwarren / Instagram / Via reddit.com "And reason number three is, yeah, they may do this now, but come November 2026, they're gonna have to face the voters. They're gonna have to face the people, the families of the people whose healthcare they took away.
And they're gonna have to explain exactly what they just did just now on the floor of the United States Senate and whatever they do next." senwarren / Instagram / Via reddit.com Related: Donald Trump Just Commented On Potentially Pardoning Diddy And Said The Most Donald Trump Thing Ever "So," she sighs, "this is hard. But, damn.
We stay in the fight. We stay in it not because it's an easy fight, not because we're guaranteed to win every time. We stay in it because it's the right fight."
senwarren / Instagram / Via reddit.com Warren's video originally went up on her Instagram to widespread praise. She captioned it, "After 26 hours of fighting on the Senate floor, Republicans voted to rip health care from millions of people and let little babies go hungry. And they cheered.
I'm angry. You should be too. But this fight isn't over."
Most of the comments looked like this: jlbeatty / maryanntestagrossaart / Via instagram.com The video was reposted onto r/Fauxmoi on Reddit by user cmaia1503, who summarized the video with a few of the Senator's quotes. The post has over 11,000 upvotes and more than 400 comments, which looked a little different than the ones on Warren's Instagram post. senwarren / Instagram / cmaia1503 / Reddit / Via reddit.com Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement The "will we even have an election in 2026" sentiment was echoed a lot.
Someone mentioned that even if a Democrat wins the 2028 presidential election, they're being set up to fail by the bill. Related: Hillary Clinton Just Hit On One Of Donald Trump's Biggest Insecurities With Three Words This person is REALLY not optimistic about 2026, saying the Democrats have "given us so little energy thus far." "I've seen nothing to suggest there will be a free and fair election in 2026," this person wrote.
Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement One commenter wrote that "losing healthcare might be among the least of our worries," citing increased funding for ICE, among other things. Someone wrote that the cheering Senate Republicans are "soulless" and "will fuck over their own supporters to 'win.'" GeneSpecialist4988 / Lifetime / Via reddit.com And finally, this person asked how "you reason with idiots" — aka people voting against their own interests.
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