'Talk to your own party': Newsom hurls Senate GOP's words back at them

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) took to X amid the massive, hours-long Senate amendment process to prepare President Donald Trump's "big, beautiful bill" for passage, to defend their work as necessary for the American people — but Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) hit him right back with complaints about the bill from his own caucus.

The bill, which seeks to extend and deepen the tax cuts for the super wealthy that Trump signed into law in 2017, cuts over $1 trillion from Medicaid, food assistance, and green energy subsidies, while increasing the federal deficit by over $2 trillion and actually increasing taxes on most Americans.

Thune was quick to boast about what they were doing.

"This is good for America. This is good for the American people. It's good for working families," he said in his post. "We need to get this done so this country is safer, stronger, and more prosperous – not only for today, but for future generations of Americans."

Newsom, who previously proclaimed the GOP's bill would be "literally throwing seniors out on the streets," had another take.

"May want to talk to members of your own party Mr. Leader," wrote Newsom's press office account, adding a few quotes from Republican lawmakers: "Senator Tillis: Republicans are about to make a mistake on health care and betray a promise; Senator Hawley: It will take away health care from working people."

Tillis (R-NC) is declining to seek re-election as he steps up his criticism of the bill. Hawley (R-MO) has repeatedly decried the bill's cuts to Medicaid as devastating for working people and rural hospitals in his state, but has signaled he is likely to vote for most of those cuts anyway.