This is the Daily Blast from the New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network.

I'm your host, Greg Sargent.

The Senate has now passed President Trump's big bill that cuts Medicaid by around $1 trillion in order to fund a huge tax cut for the rich.

Working class voters will get badly hurt by this bill,

but Trump doesn't care. He's now demanding that House Republicans pass it as it is,

Medicaid cuts and all. In a series of extraordinary tweets, Vice President J.D. Vance

revealed exactly how the whole scam is going to work. Over and over, he downplayed the Medicaid cuts

while declaring that what really matters is the bill's increased funding for migrant detention

and deportations. See how this works? Maga voters shouldn't spend any time thinking about their

pending loss of Medicaid. Think about how immigrants will suffer under this bill instead.

So how far can Trump, Vance, and Republicans get with this ruse?

To find out, today we're talking to someone who is on the road right now, as we speak,

talking to voters about this bill, Kristen Crowell, the executive director of the advocacy group

Fair Share America. Thanks for coming on, Kristen Crowell, the executive director of the advocacy group Fair Share America.

Thanks for coming on, Kristen.

Thanks so much for having me, Greg.

So the Senate just passed Trump's bill.

Just to reiterate some numbers on this, the Congressional Budget Office found that it

will cut over $1 trillion on health care, nearly one trillion of those cuts to Medicaid, while leaving

over 11 million people more without health insurance. The bottom line is that between this,

other cuts to the safety net, and the massive tax cuts for the wealthy it entails, the bill at the

most fundamental level is a large upward

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