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Published in The Galveston County Daily News July 24, 2025 There are a number of Democrats with whom we have a strong trusting relationship. There are good and bad apples in both political parties; we applaud the good ones. We don't applaud the fearmongering and untruthful ones in the Democrat leadership. Congressional Democrats opposing "The Big Beautiful Bill" did everything they could to frighten the American public. Did they say anything positive about this, the budget reconciliation bill? Nothing! Only Senator Fetterman (D-PA) said he was all for rooting out fraud but the others were all negative and none voted for the bill. Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ) said, "This legislation is going to kick 300,000 of my constituents off of healthcare… They don't have money in their budget to buy healthcare coverage; so, they need to make a decision between their eating and their rent, or they just don't go to the doctor." Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) said, there will be a lot of people who work for a living who will not be able to comply with the provisions [of the bill] and they'll lose their healthcare. That's the intent of this provision," he contended. These comments were backed up by the legacy news media; a media that is losing readership/viewership because they no longer can be trusted to tell the truth. The truth about the Medicaid provision is that it requires any recipient who is healthy and able-bodied (without a disability), and who doesn't have a dependent under age 14, to work a minimum of 20 hours a week in order to get Medicaid benefits. Senator Roger Marshall (R-KS) said, "We want to get people back to work." He contented there are jobs out there that are going unfilled, good jobs. Senator Bill Hagarty (R-TN) said "I don't think the taxpayers should be footing the [medical care] bill for able bodied citizens and certainly not for non-citizens. It's amazing," he continued, the Democrats are making the argument that we should be giving free medical care and having U.S. taxpayers pay for it, which is a disincentive to work. "We can't have this here in America." There are some good things in this bill. It: - makes the Trump tax cuts permanent, - does away with taxes on tips and Social Security, - provides increased funding for ICE, - provides enough money to complete the border wall, and - it codifies many of Trump's Executive Orders Former governor John Sununu (R-NH) said, negativism and fearmongering is a mistake Democrats continue to repeat. "If you vote for this bill, people will die … if you vote for Trump, democracy will end. If you don't support the Green New Deal, we're going to lose our coastlines." Such messages, Sununu claimed, can only be justified if there's evidence to back them up, but "nothing ever backs it up." And because of this, the American people have lost faith in the Democrat Party, he said. The Democrats haven't got a message. "All they have is, 'If you support Republicans, you're hurting America,'" Sununu contended. Trump won the election because he was positive and had an agenda the voters agreed with. The moral of the story? Be positive and tell the truth. This column was originally submitted for pulication on July 14th. Since then, on July 19th, the Daily Caller reported that Democratic lawmakers who decried the "Big Beautiful Bill" it as the “Big, Ugly Bill,” are beginning to praise — and even take credit — for various provisions within the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Go figure!
	About the Authors 2025 Bill Sargent and Mark Mansius have written over 300 guest columns and editorials over the last ten years for numerous publications and continues to do so. Bill lives in Galveston, Texas In 2012 they ran against each other in the GOP Primary race for Congressiona District 14. Since then they have become close friends and colleagues.
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