CNN’s Kaitlan Collins Drops Video Receipts on Trump ‘Broken Promises’ in ‘Big Beautiful Bill’
CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins dropped a handy supercut of visual receipts to call out the “broken promises” that Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) cited in President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill.”
In a dramatic move this weekend, Tillis announced he won’t be seeking reelection after he torched Trump’s bill on the Senate floor for “broken promises” to his supporters about cutting Medicaid:
SEN. THOM TILLIS (R-NC): It is inescapable that this bill, in its current form, will betray the very promise that Donald J. Trump made in the Oval Office.
All right, so what do I tell 663,000 people, in two years, or three years, when President Trump breaks his promise by pushing them off of Medicaid, because the funding is not there?
The effect of this bill is to break a promise.
But I’m telling the President that, you have been misinformed.
On Monday night’s edition of CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins, Collins opened her show with a recap of the back-and-forth between Tillis and the White House — and a supercut of Trump’s promise not to touch Medicaid:
COLLINS: Asked about those comments, at the White House press briefing, this afternoon, Karoline Leavitt said that Senator Tillis is, quote, Just wrong, and that the President has been working closely with top Republican leaders.
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KAROLINE LEAVITT, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: The President has been working hand-in-hand with Senate Majority Leader Thune, and also our House Republican leader, or — the Speaker of the House, I’m sorry, Mike Johnson, both of whom will be at the White House today to meet with the President, yet again.
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COLLINS: We heard from a spokesperson for Senate Majority Leader, John Thune, right after that, who said that he did not have any meetings scheduled with President Trump at the White House today. That led the White House to clarify that the President is in touch with those Republican leaders by phone.
And as for the heart of what Senator Tillis is saying here, and his criticism, including that the President is being misinformed by his advisers. Here’s what the President said just last week, about this bill.
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DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: We’re cutting $1.7 trillion in this bill, and you’re not going to feel any of it. And your Medicaid is left alone. It’s left the same. (END VIDEO CLIP)
COLLINS: Regardless of whether you agree with adding things, like work requirements for Medicaid, as this bill does, Medicaid would not technically be, quote, “Left the same.”
The Senate version would reduce federal support for that program by about $930 billion, over a decade. That’s according to the Congressional Budget Office, which also projects 11.8 million more people would be left without health insurance.
When Senator Tillis is speaking about broken promises, he’s talking about all the times the President made comments like this.
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TRUMP: Medicaid, we’re not going to do anything with that.
Medicare and Medicaid, none of that stuff is going to be touched.
We’re not cutting Medicaid.
We’re not changing Medicaid.
Here’s what I want on Medicaid. We’re not touching anything.
Just as I promised, there will be no cuts.
It won’t be, Read my lips, anymore. We’re not going to touch it.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
COLLINS: And as Senator Tillis says, he will be exiting the political fray by not running for reelection.
Watch above via CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins.
