House Republican Shreds Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ as ‘Titanic’-Level ‘Debt Bomb’

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) broke ranks to deliver a stark warning that President Donald Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” was a time “bomb” in a scathing Titanic-inspired takedown that argued the policies will send the U.S. full speed toward a fiscal “iceberg.”

During a combative stretch of floor debate into the early hours of Thursday, House Democrats lambasted the legislation as a cynical giveaway to the ultra-wealthy that guts federal health and nutrition programs, Massie joined them in protest to offer what he called a “dose of reality.”

I’d love to stand here and tell the American people, we can cut your taxes and we can increase spending and everything’s going to be just fine. But I can’t do that because I’m here to deliver a dose of reality.

This bill dramatically increases deficits in the near term, but promises our government will be fiscally responsible five years from now. Where have we heard that before? How do you bind a future Congress to these promises? This bill is a debt bomb ticking.

The Kentucky Republican broke with his party to warn that the bill — despite promising tax relief — sets the country on a path to eye-watering debt and long-term economic instability. Massie flagged how Moody’s downgraded the U.S. credit outlook, prompting higher interest rates on long-term government bonds.

“Very soon,” he said. “The government will be paying $16,000 of interest, interest alone, per U.S. family.”

He estimated that under the bill’s taxing and spending levels, the national debt could balloon by as much as $30 trillion over the next decade.

“Congress can do funny math, fantasy math, if it wants,” Massie added. “But bond investors don’t.”

“We’re not rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic tonight. We’re putting coal in the boiler and setting a course for the iceberg,” he warned.

Before yielding, the congressman sniped at his Republican colleagues hoping to push the bill through while America slept: “If something is beautiful, you don’t do it after midnight.”

House Republicans passed the bill by a single vote Thursday morning. Massie was one of two Republicans to join Democrats in voting against it.

The Senate will now take up the measure.

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