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‘Debt bomb ticking’: Thomas Massie rebrands Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’ in Senate speech

Well, well, well — looks like not everyone is swooning over Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill.” Representative Thomas Massie (R-KY), Washington’s resident libertarian buzzkill, took to the Senate floor to debate Trump’s shiny tax-and-spend monstrosity, calling it what it is: a “debt bomb ticking.”

Massie, one of only two Republicans with the courage to vote against the MAGA mega-bill, didn’t mince words. While most of his GOP colleagues were busy clapping like trained seals for tax cuts and red-meat spending hikes, Massie was doing the math — and folks, the numbers don’t lie.

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