Evil Against Very Evil – Trump’s Big, Beautiful Bill and the Republican Battle

byRainer Hofmann

May 18, 2025

It is a spectacle of absurdity, a duel between demons, and yet it is about nothing less than the fate of millions of Americans. In the House of Representatives, the battle rages over Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” a grotesque monument of Stone Age politics, hammered into the law with the elegance of an angry mob.

There stands the president himself, a man who sees the “One Big Beautiful Bill” as the crown of his rule. A fiscal ax that falls not only on state spending but also on the weakest. Medicaid - the healthcare program for the needy - is to be tightened, work requirements are to come. But not right away, only in 2029. Why? Because even cruelty must be planned and optimized.

But the true believers in the conservative camp find even that too mild. Chip Roy, Ralph Norman, Josh Brecheen, and Andrew Clyde - the self-proclaimed “fiscal hawks” - have chosen mutiny. For them, the “big, beautiful bill” is not cruel enough. They want the cuts to take effect immediately. They dream of a lean state where the poor fall without a net, where environmental standards become a farce.

And then there is another faction - those Republicans whose districts have benefited from the green energy tax breaks. For them, the “Inflation Reduction Act” of the Biden era is a blessing, creating jobs and strengthening businesses. But in the world of Trumpists, green energy is the enemy - a “scam,” as Trump calls it. They want to abolish tax breaks for clean technologies, even if it costs jobs.

Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House, wanders like a circus director through the chaos. He speaks of “historic savings” and “economic freedom.” But his words are empty. Behind the scenes, Republicans fight like hyenas over the scraps of power. And Trump? He watches, laughs, and incites his followers when it suits him.

It is the grim theater of a party in a civil war. Evil fights against very evil. The “hawks” against the environmental haters, the tax rebels against the dissenters. And in the end, Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” could be remembered for what it really is: a lesson in hypocrisy and cynicism.

This is America in the year 2025. A country where the powerful fight like hungry beasts over the bones of the weak. And the king of the beasts? He sits in Mar-a-Lago and enjoys the show.

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