The U.S. Senate on Monday voted against a provision that would have barred illegal aliens from receiving Medicaid benefits, dealing a setback to a key part of President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill.”
During the chamber’s vote-a-rama on the legislation, the measure fell short by a vote of 56-44.
The provision aimed to eliminate fraudulent access to Medicaid by individuals residing in the country illegally but required 60 votes for passage due to a ruling from the Senate Parliamentarian.
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The Parliamentarian invoked the Byrd Rule, which limits what can be included in reconciliation legislation and raised the vote threshold for the provision from a simple majority to a supermajority.
What’s the point of senate republicans holding a majority if some unelected bureaucrat can control WHAT they are voting on under the banner of “procedure” pic.twitter.com/V7ojJuBKXg
— Carl Higbie (@CarlHigbie) June 30, 2025
Had the measure been subject to a standard majority vote, it would have passed.
🚨 BREAKING: U.S. Senate rejects measure to kick illegal aliens off Medicaid, 56-44.
It was GOING to only need 50+1 votes…
…but the DEMOCRAT PARLIAMENTARIAN decided it needed 60 votes while scrutinizing the Big Beautiful Bill.
FIRE HER!!!! pic.twitter.com/jPAe9rb24X
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) June 30, 2025
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The failed vote follows vocal opposition from Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC), who criticized the bill’s changes to Medicaid eligibility during floor debate.
Tillis, who recently announced he will not seek re-election after being publicly criticized by President Trump, claimed the legislation would harm Americans.
“Republicans are about to make a mistake on health care and betray 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 said, arguing that President Trump had been misled about the bill’s content.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt directly addressed Tillis’s remarks during a briefing earlier Monday, defending the legislation and rejecting Tillis’s interpretation.
“He is just wrong, and the President and the vast majority of Republicans who are supportive of this legislation are right,” Leavitt said.
“This bill protects Medicaid, as I laid out for you, for those who truly deserve this program—the needy, pregnant women, children, sick Americans who physically cannot work.”
Leavitt emphasized that the bill maintains protections for vulnerable Americans while implementing a work requirement for able-bodied adults.
“And what it does is it ensures that able-bodied Americans who can work 20 hours a week are actually doing so, and that will therefore strengthen and protect those benefits for Americans who need it,” she added.
“As well as cutting out the waste, fraud and abuse, as well as getting 1.4 million illegal aliens off of the program.”
“So all of those measures are actually going to protect it for those who need it. That’s the President’s position, and that’s what this bill does, and that’s why Republicans need to vote for it and get it to the President’s desk,” Leavitt concluded.
Despite the setback on the Medicaid provision, the bill as amended continues to move forward.
The House of Representatives is scheduled to take up the Senate-passed version of the bill on Wednesday.
The final outcome remains uncertain, as some Republican lawmakers have expressed concern over changes made to the bill during the Senate’s deliberations.
The extent of any internal opposition among House Republicans has not yet been made public.
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What a bunch of disgusting pieces of excrement the democrats have become.
Publish the names, photos and States represented by these POS.
The names.
Who are these RATS????
They have failed their oath of office and all 44 should be removed from office!!!!!!!
None of the rationalizations or justifications matter. Anyone who votes for giving tax dollars to illegal aliens is voting to support criminality, is voting against the Constitution, is voting against Americans. The Democrats want illegal aliens in this country, Obama and Biden let them in, for the sole purpose of altering the Census to increase Democrat seats in Congress to insure a permanent forever Democrat majority. They did not and do not care if these people work, or even if they eat or have medical care. They do not care that immigrant children are sold into sex slavery. All Democrats care about is holding power. This is the message every Republican should be speaking every day. Every time a Democrat has spoken, a Republican should step up and speak this truth to the Democrat’s face. Force them to answer it.
Magnificent comment and 100% on the money!
DEMOCRATS: A term not to be confused with “AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL”!
Democrats can however, be connected to the terms, MARXISM, COMMUNISM!
These followers know only discuss for the United States and what it represents.
Vote the cowards and radicals out, then arrest them for “TREASON”!!
I am 77 years old, a natural-born American of natural-born American parents and grandparents, and I was trimmed from Medicaid benefits over a year ago for cost-cutting reasons. I have lived at or below poverty level for this century – less than $15,000 yearly, including Social Security.
But the Democrats want to give it to their “new constituency” – a bunch of imported foreigners they plan on showering with taxpayers’ money and making their new, permanent Democrat-voting bloc.
Absolutely disgusting.
44 (so-called) senators (sic) who vote against a bulk majority of americans and definitely AGAINST the United States should all be primaried out of office. America has had enough of their woke, DEI bull sh*t. Time to bring America back to We The People and not communist beaurocrats – let these 44 sell-outs pay for them out of their own pockets
All of these fascists and the Parlamentarian with severe TDS must be replaced by others with live brain cells . All that Democ rat know is that they rather destroy our economy and have open borders as they goose step as fascists behind that as sholes like you Hakeem —-