Why It’s Hard To Make Sense Of The ‘Mishmash’ In Republicans’ ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’
By: Christopher Jacobs
June 02, 2025Even if the bill passes and gets signed into law, the policy muddle inside it will prove difficult to explain and defend.At more than 1,000 pages long, the legislation definitely qualifies as “big.” But what the Republican House of Representatives passed as the “One Big, Beautiful Bill Act” just before Memorial Day led this author to a one-word reaction: “Meh.”
The bill has some positive provisions inside it, to be sure. But those beneficial traits ended up watered down or canceled out by other sections that seem to have little purpose other than to buy off votes in the House and/or key constituencies outside Congress.
Just as important, what The Wall Street Journal dubbed “a mishmash of Republican priorities” appears to have little coherence. That fact could create bigger policy messaging concerns heading into next year’s midterm elections.
Three Steps Forward, Two Steps BackOn almost every issue, the legislation amounts to a Rorschach test for conservatives, one in which the positive provisions and negative provisions nearly balance themselves out:
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