Trump Nukes House Republican Worried His Big, Beautiful Bill Adds Too Much Debt: ‘He Should Be Voted Out of Office’
President Donald Trump pulled no punches on Tuesday when asked about Rep. Thomas Massie’s (R-KY) opposition to his sweeping tax and spending bill, known as the “Big, Beautiful Bill.”
Trump was on Capitol Hill meeting with Republican leadership when he stopped to take some questions from reporters alongside Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA).
“What do you say to the fiscal hawks who want to delay this? They say it doesn’t cut enough spending?” asked a reporter as Trump cut in, “I’m a fiscal hawk. I’m a bigger fiscal hawk. There’s nobody like me as a fiscal hawk.”
“Thomas Massie says it adds more deficit than Biden did, and this bill kind of-” another reporter said as Trump interjected, “Because we have to fix the country.”
“Do you think that Thomas Massie is correct in saying that–” added the reporter as Trump replied:
No, I don’t think Thomas Massie understands government. I think he’s a grandstander, frankly. He’ll probably vote. We don’t even talk to him much. I think you should be voted out of office.
And I just don’t he understands government, if you ask him a couple of questions, he never gives you an answer. He just says, ‘I’m a no.’ He thinks he’s going to get publicity. And you have that. You have that, they’ve got some, too. Go ahead.
Massie, who has long been known for voting against most legislation, made his opposition to Trump’s bill clear on X.
“The Big Beautiful Bill will add $20 trillion of federal debt over 10 years, and that’s according to the authors of it. But there’s another huge problem: it will increase the price of the $36 trillion of debt we already have, as bond buyers realize we aren’t fiscally responsible,” Massie wrote while sharing a news report about Moody’s cutting the country’s credit rating.
Massie later added, “Monday, on news of the BBB, 30-year US treasuries rose to 5% and 10-year US treasuries rose to 4.52%. That’s the price WE pay to finance the national debt when old notes mature. We’re approaching $1.5 trillion of annual interest payments… over $4,000 per US citizen per year.”
“Perspective: the part of the Big Beautiful Bill that renews the TCJA tax cuts will benefit each family on average by $1600, but the policies changed or left in place by the BBB will be obligate [sic] each family of 4 to $16,000 of interest payments on behalf of the federal government,” concluded the Kentucky Republican.
Watch the clip above via C-SPAN.
