Senate Democrats are starting to pick up the pieces after Republicans muscled President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” through the upper chamber Tuesday, with Vice President Vance breaking a tie vote to send the mammoth legislation back to the House.
“This bill is bad. It’s bad economically. It’s bad morally. This bill is just wrong,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) said in a video from inside a vehicle as she left the Capitol following a 27-hour marathon voting session. “But we stay in the fight.”
The Senate Democrat added in a post on the social media platform X, “I’m angry. You should be too.”
Warren said Republicans would have to face voters in November 2026 after advancing proposals to cut Medicaid and other welfare programs. Republicans included various health reforms in the sprawling legislation to help pay for extending the 2017 Trump tax cuts, among other priorities.
“They’re going to have to face the people, the families of the people, whose health care they took away, and they’re going to have to explain exactly what they just did,” Warren said.
Still, the progressive Democrat made the case for optimism about certain sections of the massive legislation package.
“Actually, there are pieces of this bill that we got better,” she said, citing the removal of a tax on solar and wind energy. “We got a few different pieces and made them better.”
Other prominent Democrats piled on the bill.
“In one fell swoop: Republicans passed the biggest tax breaks for billionaires ever seen,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) posted on X. “Paid for by ripping healthcare from millions of people and taking food away from the mouths of hungry kids.”
The bill now heads back to the House, where the GOP also faces slim margins. As many as six House Republicans said Monday they would vote against the bill in its Senate form, although lawmakers have made numerous changes since then.
The House could vote on the bill as early as Wednesday.
