Interview · moment 10 of 14
Medicaid Cuts, the Big Beautiful Bill, and Priorities of Spending
from Marjorie Taylor Greene Emergency Podcast | The Tim Dillon Show #465 · #465
8 min
Guest
Greene breaks down what's actually in the renamed 'big beautiful bill,' including rural hospital funding and cuts targeting illegal immigrant abuse of Medicaid, while arguing spending priorities favor military industrial complex, big pharma, and foreign countries over ordinary Americans.
- Tim argues the U.S. prioritizes military spending, pharma, insurance companies, and foreign wars over domestic needs that would actually help Americans.
- Trump's sudden shift to letting Ukraine win back all territory from Russia feels insane when the goal should be negotiating peace instead.
- Pentagon generals or other influences may be pressuring Trump away from a deal, possibly over access to Ukrainian minerals Lindsey Graham keeps mentioning.
- The U.S. has spent decades brainwashing Americans that Russia is the bad guy, when Russia presents itself as an unapologetic Christian nation.
- You don't have to like Russia to not want America involved in their war with Ukraine, especially since Ukraine isn't even a NATO member.
- While American small businesses failed during COVID lockdowns, U.S. tax dollars funded Ukrainian government pensions and small businesses—with wealthy Ukrainians living in mansions in France.
- Tim questions why he's a bad representative for not caring which territory Ukraine loses when his own district can't get appropriations because Mike Johnson passes continuing resolutions constantly.
- Mike Johnson has the vibe of someone being threatened—he seems scared and overly cautious, especially given he won't release the Epstein files or fight for House priorities.
- Kash Patel also looks intimidated, like a deer in headlights, and the whole FBI messaging under recent leadership seems unsatisfying to everyone watching.
- An FBI retiree neighbor told Tim that Mueller and James Comey completely radically changed and destroyed the institution, which Tim believes applies to many government departments.
- When people are in top government positions, it's extremely difficult for them to know what's happening down through the ranks of their institutions.
military-industrial complexRussiainsurance companiesMike Johnsonbig pharmaKash PatelIsraelDonald TrumpFBIUkraineRobert MuellerJames ComeyLindsey Graham