Buttigieg goes off in profanity-laced tirade: GOP proved what it's 'all about'
Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg unleashed a tirade against President Donald Trump and the GOP on Thursday following the passage of their "big, beautiful bill."
The package extends tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy while slashing over $1 trillion from Medicaid, food assistance, and energy credits, massively increasing the budget for immigration detention and deportation, and adding over $2 trillion to the federal deficit.
This bill, Buttigieg argued in a post on X, lays bare how all of the GOP's promises of reinventing themselves into a working-class movement are nothing short of "bulls---."
"We're hearing that the House has passed the megabill after it got through the Republican Senate," said Buttigieg. "Now it's on its way to President Trump's desk, and he's going to sign it."
"When he does, he will create some of the biggest tax breaks for billionaires in history, transferring even more wealth to the wealthiest Americans," Buttigieg continued. "And the way they're paying for it is to cut health care for working-class Americans, to cut food that would go to veterans and children in this country, to shut down rural hospitals and make an entire generation worse off. And they're managing to increase the national debt and deficit while they do it."
"This is the decisive, once-and-for-all answer to what this president and his party are about," Buttigieg added. "You know, it was fashionable for Washington commentators for a while to say that this was a new, different, populist, working-class Republican Party. Now, it has been demonstrated decisively that that was all bullsh---. That they're still all about making the wealthy even wealthier at the expense of working Americans."
"If there's any good news in all this, it's that this is still a democracy," he concluded. "Even now, even with all of the damage that Donald Trump has done to our republic, there is no king in this country. Which means 'We the People' will have the last word. And it is up to us, the American people, to respond politically and say that it is unacceptable to harm the majority of Americans to make the very wealthiest a little better off."