President Donald Trump revealed in a social post of end of evening that he planned to meet those interested in the primary against the North Carolina Republican Senator in place Thom Tillis, in response to Tillis’ decision to vote against “One Big Beau Bill” by Trump.
Late Saturday evening, the president poster On his social media platform, “many people have presented themselves to want to present themselves in the primary against the” senator Thom “Tillis. I will meet them in the coming weeks, in search of someone who will properly represent the large inhabitants of North Carolina and, so important, the United States of America. Thank you for your attention to this question! ”
Tillis, who was elected senator for the first time in 2014, is re -election next year.
Trump had published a rave Go against Tillis, as well as Democrats, Earlier in the eveningArguing that Tillis was “unable to understand the importance of an extension of debt”. He also accused Tillis of having thrown the tobacco industry by the window and of supporting “the windmills made in China who will cost a fortune”, all at the expense of his voters.
Trump continued to accuse Tillis of being “disappeared in action” during the catastrophic floods that hit the North Carolina at the end of last year, while performing at “Sleepy Joe Biden” for having left the residents of west of North Carolina. Tillis has already been a supporter of Trump, appearing in one of his Campaign in North Carolina in the elections in 2020.
Earlier on Saturday, Tillis revealed in a statement That he would vote against the president’s megabill, largely because of the cuts offered by Trump in Medicaid.
The press release said: “I did my homework on behalf of the North Carolinians, and I cannot support this bill in its current form. It would lead to tens of billions of dollars in funding lost for North Carolina, including our hospitals and our rural communities. ”
“This will force the State to make painful decisions such as the elimination of the coverage of Medicaid for hundreds of thousands in the expansion population,” he continued, “and even by reducing critical services for those of the traditional Medicaid population.”
Undering the Senate to adopt the approach of the room in Medicaid, Tillis said: “We can and must do better.”
Some of the modifications made to Medicaid have been proposed by the Republicans to try to compensate for the cost of Trump tax reductions, which experts The concern could increase up to 4.5 billions of dollars to national debt over the next decade.
The other Republicans who challenged the proposed changes are the Senators Josh Hawley, Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski. In the end, the Republican senators voted to move forward with the bill, with all except Tillis and the Senator of Kentucky Rand Paul Vote yes Late Saturday.
While the White House initially declared that disagreements were “part of the process”, press secretary Karoline Leavitt saying to the press that they expected that the bill went to Trump’s office for a signature by July 4, the president is clearly impatient.
The former devotee of Trump Elon Musk reiterated His own opposition to the bill in its current form in a series of messages to X on Saturday, arguing that the bill “will destroy millions of jobs in America and will cause immense strategic damage to our country!”
He also called the “completely crazy and destructive” bill and argued that lifting the debt ceiling by 5 billions of potential dollars would run the risk of “putting America in the quick path of debt!”
