Through a series of closed-door meetings, overnight votes, and empty promises, House Republicans passed a tax scheme that will kick sixteen million Americans off their health care, skyrocket the cost of food, and funnel massive giveaways to Big Oil while gutting investments in clean-energy jobs. The resulting revenues will fund massive tax breaks for Republican lawmakers, their wealthy donors, and huge corporations.
At its core, the bill defies logic. It is as politically unpopular as it is bad for the economic well-being of the majority of Americans. It’s so catastrophic that you’d expect more than a handful of congressional Republicans to publicly raise concerns about the political cost. But as Senate Republicans now scramble to try to pass the bill by the July 4 deadline demanded by President Donald Trump, the majority aren’t taking their cues from their constituents. They’re listening to the wealthiest Americans and big businesses who’ve gamed the political system to their benefit.
How do we know? Just look at who’s funding the fight.
One of the leading groups running advertisements supporting the “Big, Beautiful Betrayal” is the American Action Network. The conservative dark money group spent $4 million to assert that the tax bill will help ordinary Americans, conveniently leaving out the cuts the bill would make to Medicaid and how it would sunset Affordable Care Act subsidies.
It’s no coincidence the group is peddling a narrative endorsed by big drug companies. Since 2020, the lobbying group Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America has funneled a staggering $17.5 million to the American Action Network.
Then there’s ultraconservative billionaire Charles Koch. After receiving over $72 million from the oil and gas industry between 2020 and 2024, Koch’s Americans for Prosperity announced a $4 million push to pass the billionaire tax cuts.
And lastly, private equity groups, who have…
Auteur: Tony Carrk
