It's a Bad, Bad, Bad, Bad Bill

It’s ugly. It’s nasty. It’s a 0/10. It’s anything but beautiful. It’s the big, bloated, busted bill.

At this point, we’re confident that you could ask a first-grader to write a piece of federal legislation, and it would come out better than the OBBB. At least we could get free chicken nuggets for all and mandatory stickers at the doctor’s office instead of handouts to billionaires and kicking millions of people off their health care.

It turns out, the One Butt Ugly Bill is already unpopular with voters nationwide. After reading a description of the bill, a majority of voters (57%), including a majority of Independents (56%), oppose it.

Strong majorities of voters are either “somewhat concerned” or “very concerned” about every provision we tested — particularly cuts to Medicaid (55% say they are very concerned).
 

Among voters who have heard something about the GOP budget bill, that info has largely been more negative (that it will cut Medicaid, benefit the wealthy, etc.) than positive.

Move over Joker: Folie à Deux and 143 by Katy Perry, because the OBBB is truly set to be one of the biggest flops of the last decade. 

Read the full poll here.

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Here are some other highlights from DFP this week:

What’s the opposite of quiet quitting?

Don’t we all hate it when we have an awful boss? No one likes a manager who makes you work late, publicly berates you on his social media, or tries to force you to pass a 900-page bill that will kick 17 million Americans off their health insurance. 

So, it’s been a pretty bad week for Thom Tillis. Although we simply wouldn’t have become a frontline member of the Party Who Takes Away Health Care To Cut Taxes for Billionaires in the first place!

This week, Tillis finally jumped ship after voting against the OBBB. And just days earlier, we released a survey in partnership with Families Over Billionaires showing that a majority of North Carolina voters wanted their Senators to vote against the bill. Do y’all think Thom Tillis reads this newsletter?!?
 

Additionally, the polling shows that a majority of North Carolina voters think the bill will hurt them and their families (52%), others in the state (52%), and the country overall (54%), but that it will help billionaires (66%) and corporations (65%).

So, North Carolinians, while you’re grilling hamburgers at the Outer Banks this weekend, maybe give your other senator Ted Budd a call and grill him over his vote to screw over his constituents.

Read the full poll here.
 

Speaking of disasters…

It’s disaster season — and no, we’re not talking about whatever is happening on the new season of Love Island.

Last month, Andrea became the first named Atlantic storm of 2025, while more than a third of the country sweltered in 90+ degree temperatures, all while our landlords refused to fix the broken AC. Welcome to summer in the USA!

The Trump administration has recently made cuts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and plans to phase out the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) at the end of this hurricane season. Both federal agencies provide critical support before, during, and after extreme weather events, and many experts warn that these cuts could have widespread consequences for U.S. disaster management.

A majority (62%) of voters oppose staff and funding cuts to NOAA. Opposition to eliminating FEMA is even stronger: 66% of voters oppose eliminating the agency.
 

Folks, if anything can unite America, it’s bringing together the dads and moms who spend all day watching the Weather Channel — which will lose critical weather reporting data thanks to these cuts. Jim Cantore’s been in danger before, but never quite like this.

Read the full poll here.

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