Best of the Daily Blast: Angry JD Vance Accidentally Reveals How Trump Is Screwing MAGA Voters

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Chris Cotnoir

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🗓️ 3 January 2026

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Original air date: July 2, 2025 The Senate ⁠just passed its version⁠ of President Trump’s big budget bill, which will cut $1 trillion from Medicaid to fund huge tax cuts for the rich. In a series of ⁠angry⁠ ⁠tweets⁠, Vice President JD Vance downplayed the Medicaid cuts while saying what really matters is the bill’s massive funding for ICE and migrant detention. It was a revealing moment: Vance basically told MAGA voters not to think too much about their pending loss of health care via Medicaid cuts; instead they should focus on how many migrants the bill will end up jailing and deporting. That scam is integral to getting the Medicaid cuts passed in the first place. But what will voters think? We talked to Kristen Crowell, who is campaigning against the bill for the advocacy group Fair Share America. She explains how Trump voters and other constituencies are reacting to the bill in many communities with anger and fear; why the public is not receptive right now to typical GOP attacks on the safety net; and whether this can be converted into midterm gains for Democrats. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:22.9	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.
1:26.9	Working class voters will get badly hurt by this bill,
1:29.6	but Trump doesn't care. He's now demanding that House Republicans pass it as it is,
1:34.7	Medicaid cuts and all. In a series of extraordinary tweets, Vice President J.D. Vance
1:40.2	revealed exactly how the whole scam is going to work. Over and over he downplayed the
1:45.5	Medicaid cuts while declaring that what really matters is the bill's increased funding for
1:50.6	migrant detention and deportations. See how this works? Maga voters shouldn't spend any time
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