The senator of the Republican Party Thom Tillis returned to Capitol Hill on Monday when the Senate Republicans fought to approve his “a great act of Big Beautiful Bill” who opposes, before the deadline of July 4 of President Donald Trump.
“I can look for an opportunity to speak again,” Tillis said during his burning comments on the Senate floor on Sunday night, in which he urged his Republican colleagues to reconsider his support for the Republican Tax Law, which said “Break” the promises of President Donald Trump to protect Medicaid.
But on Monday it was not clear if any of his republican companions would go.
Senator Thom Tillis takes the elevator in the United States Capitol building on June 30, 2025 in Washington.
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On Monday morning, when legislators began another long day of debate, the leader of the Senate minority, Chuck Schumer, praised Tillis for his comments by calling the Megabill provisions of the Republican Party who said he would cut Medicaid in his native state of North Carolina.
“I greet my colleague from North Carolina. We all listen to what our north Carolina colleague had to say yesterday about this bill. I suppose it is approximately half, perhaps more than half of the Republicans in the Senate according to him. But he had the courage to tell the truth,” on Monday morning, more than half of the vote in the bill.
“He said it himself: the bill devastates his status but is not wrong about it, he will devastate the states of almost all Republicans here,” Schumer added.
The senate minority leader, Chuck Schumer, reaches the Republicans begin a final impulse to advance in the exemptions and expenses package of President Donald Trump, in the Capitol in Washington, on June 30, 2025.
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But the way in which Tillis will navigate the rest of his term in the Senate, and perhaps the rest of the consideration of the reconciliation bill, remains to be seen, after he announced abruptly that he would not apply for re -election when Trump threatened to support a main challenger of the Republican Party.
While his speech was going through Medicaid’s cuts from the measure showed part of the “pure freedom” that he pointed out in his retirement announcement “to call the balls and strikes as best seems to me,” Tillis also told journalists in Capitol on Sunday that he would never do anything to “undermine” or “surprise” the republican conference of the Senate.
Senator Thom Tillis speaks on the Senate floor, on June 29, 2025, in Washington.
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“Look, here is the thing, I was a leader. I’m never going to do anything to undermine my conference, and I’m never surprising my conference,” Tillis said …
“I made Senator Thune last night to know that I intended to do this today. I am not that kind of type. I mean, if you have a surprise or stuck at your conference to do something, you are a quite shit legislator, and that is not my style,” he continued.
“So, I will support John and leadership and do everything possible to make them successful,” Tillis said.
In his speech to “explain” his vote on Saturday against the motion to advance in the “Law Big Beautiful Bill”, he condemned the legislation.
“What do I say to 663,000 people in two years, three years old, when President Trump breaks his promise by moving them away from Medicaid because the financing is no longer there, boys?” Tillis asked in a moment.
“White House people advising the president, do not tell him that the effect of this bill is to break a promise.”
President Donald Trump arrives for the ‘One, Big and Beautiful event’ in the East Room of the White House in Washington, on June 26, 2025.
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He said he criticized the president’s self -imposed deadline to approve legislation as “artificial.”
“I think we can make sure not to break Donald J. Trump’s promise, which has made the people of Medicaid today,” Tillis continued. “But what we are doing because we have a vision of an artificial deadline on July 4 that means nothing more than another date and time, we could take the time to do well, if we place the brand of the Medicaid bill and we fix it.”
“What is wrong with really understanding what this bill does?” said.
Tillis presented how he had done the work of understanding the bill in recent weeks, speaking with leaders in North Carolina and members of the Trump administration on the impacts of the medical provisions of legislation in his state.
He said that administration officials could not refute their findings that there would be around $ 26 billion in Medicaid in North Carolina as a result of the bill.
Tillis said he began his research process when asked the Republican staff in the North Carolina Legislature, members of the Democratic team of Governor Josh Stein and the Association of Non -Party Hospitals for their estimates on the cuts of this bill to Medicaid in North Carolina.
“I asked three different independent groups: a partisan Democratic group, a republican group partisan group and a non -partisan group of the Hospitals Association to develop an intact, independent evaluation, not speak, not share, inform me, and what I found is the best scenario is about a cut of $ 26 billion,” Tillis said.
He said that when he presented those findings to the Trump administration, they were rejected.
“I made people in the administration said they are all wet, you don’t know what you are doing,” he said.
Tillis concluded by saying that the Senate “owes it to the American people” to retain the advance of the bill “until I am demonstrated that we have done our task.”
“We will make sure to comply with the promise and then we can feel, I can feel, well for a bill for which I am willing to vote, but until that moment, I will retain my vote,” Tillis said.
