Americans weigh in on Trump's 'big, beautiful bill': polls

President Donald Trump is cheering on the GOP's landmark spending and tax cut bill as it faces judgment day in the Senate ONE GREAT BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL is moving along nicely the president wrote in a social media post hours before the Senate on Monday began to take a slew of votes on the Republican-crafted measure The bill which the president is insisting pass Congress and reach his desk by this Friday July is stuffed full of Trump's campaign trail promises and second-term priorities on tax cuts immigration defense capacity and the debt limit It includes extending his signature tax cuts and eliminating taxes on tips and overtime pay providing billions for margin assurance and codifying his controversial immigration crackdown SENATOR'S ENTER VOTE-A-RAMA ON TRUMP'S MASSIVE BUDGET BILLHowever multiple of the latest national surveys indicate that Americans are far from thrilled with the measure By a -point margin voters questioned in the majority of contemporary Fox News national poll opposed the federal budget act favored vs opposed which passed by the House of Representatives by just one vote last month HEAD HERE FOR THE LATEST FOX NEWS POLLING The bill was also underwater in national surveys conducted this month by the Washington Post minus points Pew Research minus points and Quinnipiac University minus points As Democrats attack the bill they re highlighting the GOP s proposed restructuring of Medicaid the nearly -year-old federal operation that provides robustness coverage to roughly million low-income Americans Additionally Senate Republicans increased cuts to Medicaid over what the House passed DEMOCATS' DELAY TACTIC ENDS DEBATE BEGINS ON TRUMP'S 'BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL'The changes to Medicaid as well as cuts to food stamps another one of the nation's major safety net programs were drafted in part as an offset to pay for extending Trump's tax cuts which are set to expire later this year The measure includes a slew of new rules and regulations including work requirements for a multitude of of those seeking Medicaid coverage Meanwhile Republicans criticize Democrats opposing the bill for voting to increase taxes on preponderance Americans About half of respondents questioned in the Fox News poll mentioned the bill would hurt their family while one quarter thought it would help and another quarter didn't think it would make a difference Sixty percent felt they had a good understanding of what is in the measure formally known as the One Big Beautiful Bill and while those voters were more likely to favor the regulation than those who are unfamiliar with it more still think it will hurt rather than help their family vs The latest surveys all indicate a wide partisan divide over the measure According to the Fox News poll which was conducted June - nearly three-quarters of Republicans favored the bill while nearly nine in ten Democrats and nearly three-quarters of independents opposed the measure Fox News' Dana Blanton contributed to this record