President Donald Trump signed the wide-ranging One Massive Stunning Invoice Act into regulation on July 4, 2025. It focuses on slicing taxes, primarily for households that earn US$217,000 or extra every year, in addition to rising funding for navy and border safety and revamping social packages.
Republicans tout it as offering “an economic lifeline for working families” and “laying a key cornerstone of America’s new golden age.”
Democrat lawmakers argue that, in actuality, Trump’s act “steals from the poor to give to the ultra-rich.”
The act is estimated to extend the nation’s debt by greater than US$3 trillion over 10 years, whereas knocking greater than 10 million individuals off Medicaid.
About 41.4 million adults within the U.S. obtain Medicaid. And 49% of Medicaid recipients who voted within the 2024 election backed Trump.
Whereas 94% of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents stated in a Could 2025 survey that they’re frightened Medicaid cuts will result in extra adults and youngsters dropping their medical health insurance, 44% of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents expressed concern about this, in line with the KFF Well being Monitoring Ballot.
Why, then, do Trump’s Make America Nice Once more supporters – particularly those that might be hit exhausting by cuts to meals help packages and well being care, together with hospitals – proceed to assist him whilst he enacts insurance policies that some suppose go in opposition to their pursuits? Certainly, over 78% of Republicans or Republican-leaning voters say they assist the measure Trump signed.
As an anthropologist who research MAGA and American political tradition, I perceive that most of the MAGA trustworthy imagine that Trump is a once-in-a-lifetime chief who’s catapulting the U.S. into a brand new golden age.
President Donald Trump holds up the One Massive Stunning Invoice Act that he signed into regulation on July 4, 2025, on the White Home.
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Trump alone can repair it
Within the eyes of the MAGA trustworthy, Trump is not any abnormal politician. To them, he’s a savior who may help keep at bay the specter of radical left socialism. They imagine Trump’s proclamation: “I alone can fix it.”
Some see Trump’s survival of an assassination try on July 13, 2024, as proof he’s divinely chosen to guide the nation. Trump himself claimed throughout his second inaugural deal with, “I was saved by God to make America great again.”
As I’ve repeatedly noticed firsthand at Trump rallies and MAGA gatherings and heard in my conversations with Trump supporters, many Trump supporters – even these whom Democrats contend might be damage by the invoice – see the invoice as a key step to creating America nice once more. Doing so won’t be simple and should trigger some ache.
However as Trump himself has famous about insurance policies reminiscent of tariffs, “sometimes you have to take medicine to fix something.”
‘Fake news!’
The White Home is taking the identical method with the brand new laws. In June 2025, the Trump administration issued a press release stating “Myth vs. Fact: The One Big Beautiful Bill” and “MYTHBUSTER: The One Big Beautiful Bill Cuts Spending, Deficit – and That’s a Fact.”
There may be already proof that this depiction is resonating in locations reminiscent of rural Nebraska, the place many residents don’t blame Trump for a well being clinic that claims it’s shutting down attributable to Medicaid cuts. “Anyone who’s saying that Medicaid cuts is why they’re closing is a liar,” stated one girl of the clinic’s closure.
President Donald Trump holds a rally in July 2024 in Harrisburg, Pa.
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‘Crushing it’ within the Golden Age
Extra broadly, the MAGA trustworthy contend, the invoice’s critics miss the larger image. For probably the most half, Trump has been “crushing it” whereas placing “‘W’ after ‘W’ on the board.”
From their perspective, Trump has assembled an all-star Cupboard staff that’s implementing key pillars of the MAGA agenda, reminiscent of proscribing immigration, blocking unfair commerce and avoiding drawn-out wars.
Trump supporters underscore the president’s accomplishments on immigration. Tried unauthorized border crossings of migrants have plummeted in 2025, amid an increase in arrests of immigrants.
“Our message is clear,” said Division of Homeland Safety Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin, “criminal illegal aliens are not welcome in the United States.”
Fuel costs are additionally down. Trump has adopted via on his pledge to supporters to purge what he calls the deep state, by downsizing or gutting total authorities departments and businesses.
Trump has clamped down on woke universities that brainwash college students, as MAGA supporters see it.
He withheld funding from the College of Pennsylvania till it agreed to ban transgender girls from taking part in on girls’s sports activities groups. Trump additionally lower $400 million in funding for Columbia College as a result of the administration stated it didn’t sufficiently shield Jewish college students from harassment throughout Palestinian rights protests.
And Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu even nominated Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize in July for his diplomatic work within the Center East.
Recounting Trump’s international coverage achievements, one conservative commentator gushed that Trump “promised we would win so much we’d get tired of winning. Instead, the wins keep coming – and America isn’t tired at all.”
Trumpism = Trump
But, Trump faces challenges.
A June 2025 KFF Well being Monitoring Ballot discovered that assist for the brand new laws decreased when individuals had been knowledgeable about its unfavorable well being care influence, for instance.
Republicans might additionally face backlash in 2028 after the complete influence of the act takes impact and folks lose medical health insurance and different public advantages.
Regardless, I imagine MAGA trustworthy will doubtless proceed to assist Trump.
They could argue over components of his invoice, the airstrikes on Iran or the discharge of the Jeffrey Epstein information.
However, in the long run, they are going to circle the wagons round Trump for a easy motive. Trump created the MAGA motion. He dominates the Republican Celebration. And there’s no Trumpism with out Trump.
