June 17, 2025 01:59 PM UTC

Americans Hate the Republican Budget Bill

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• by: Colorado Pols

New polling data from KFF makes it clear that President Trump’s “big beautiful bullshit bill” — what we have taken to calling the “We’re All Going to Die Act” — is about as beloved by Americans as genital warts.

According to the latest health tracking poll from KFF (formerly the Kaiser Family Foundation):

The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” that was passed by House Republicans and is currently being discussed by the U.S. Senate is viewed unfavorably by a majority of adults (64%), including large majorities of independents and Democrats. Six in ten Republicans have a favorable opinion of the bill, but this support is largely driven by supporters of the Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement, while two-thirds of non-MAGA Republicans view the bill unfavorably. Among both Republicans and MAGA supporters, support drops at least 20 percentage points, with less than half of each group viewing the law favorably after hearing it would increase the country’s uninsured rate and decrease funding for local hospitals.

Americans hate the Republican bill in part because they are also really fond of Medicaid in general:

Overall favorability of Medicaid, the health care program for low-income adults and children is now at 83%, including majorities of Democrats (93%), independents (83%), and Republicans (74%). This is an uptick in favorability from January 2025 of six percentage points overall and an 11-point increase among Republicans.

The only subset of Americans who do not hate the Republican budget bill are MAGA Republicans, likely because they consume Fox News and other right-wing media sources like the rest of us drink water.

Also interesting to note: Republicans such as Rep. Gabe Evans (R-Ft. Lupton) have dismissed negative news about the bill as “fearmongering” from Democrats, but it seems that the opposite is true; Americans just don’t buy the idea that the GOP legislation is only meant to find “waste, fraud, and abuse” in Medicaid and SNAP benefit programs:

More than half of the public correctly say that if the bill was signed into law, it would increase federal spending on border security (58%) and about half are aware it would add to the federal budget deficit (50%). About half are also aware the bill would decrease federal spending on food assistance for low-income Americans (53%), Medicaid (51%), and the ACA (48%).

These numbers are consistent with other recent polls from Navigator Research (national) and Healthier Colorado (locally).

There is no longer any question (not that there really was before): If Senate Republicans move ahead with the “We’re All Going to Die Act” passed by House Republicans, they’re going to be dealing with a very unhappy group of voters in 2026.