As a procedural vote to start floor debate on the GOP megabill stretched on Wednesday night, several MAGA world figures went online to threaten the Republican holdouts.
Hard-right lawmakers have objected that the bill increases deficits and does not sufficiently cut subsidies for clean energy and wanted more time to amend the bill. But top allies of President Donald Trump were having none of it.
Longtime Trump aide Jason Miller described the vote on whether to advance the procedural legislation as a simple choice between Trump and the Democrats. Trump’s top strategist on his 2024 campaign, Chris LaCivita, chimed in echoing the brusque message:
Top White House aide Stephen Miller demanded Republicans “stand with Trump” and show loyalty to the president who had been persecuted by “the communist left” while White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said anyone who is voting advancing the bill is voting against all of Trump’s tax pledges from the campaign, including one — “no tax on Social Security” — which is not technically in the bill.
