Hi, everyone. It's 4 o'clock here in Washington, D.C. I'm Alicia Menendez in for Nicole Wallace.

Quote, utterly insane and destructive, quote, an unhappy episode. The reviews are in, and even Republicans and their allies are warning about the consequences of Trump's so-called big,

beautiful bill. At this hour, the Senate is in the middle of a marathon voting session, taking up

amendments to the bill for members of both parties. The goal, to pass the bill later today.

And rarely, if ever, have members of a political party seemed so glum on the eve of passing major legislation.

With Democrats unified in their opposition to the bill, Republicans can only lose four votes.

And right now, at least two GOP senators have said they will be voting no.

They are Rand Paul of Kentucky, Senator Tom Tillis of North Carolina.

While Rand Paul's opposition to the bill is based on the fact that it would add $3.3 trillion

to the national debt, that's according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office,

Tillis has been vocal about the nearly $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid, cuts that would kick roughly 12 million people

off of the program that is also according to the CBO. Tillis, who was considered one of the most

vulnerable Republican senators in next year's midterms, announced that he would not run for

re-election, and then slam the bill on the floor of the Senate last night.

So what do I tell 663,000 people in two years or three years? When President Trump breaks this promise

by pushing them off of Medicaid because the funding's not there. Now, Republicans are about to make a mistake on health care and betraying a promise.

It is inescapable that this bill in its current form will betray the very promise that Donald

J. Trump made in the Oval Office or in the cabinet

room when I was there with finance where he said we can go after waste, fraud, and abuse on any

programs.

Tillis is not alone.

Trump's single biggest political benefactor in the 2024 election, Elon Musk, is resuming

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