Left: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during an address to a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC, on March 4, 2025; Right: Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) attends the inauguration of President Donald Trump. (Left: WIN MCNAMEE/POOL/AFP via Getty Images; Right: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
Massie responded soon after, telling Davidson he agreed and "if we were serious, we’d be cutting spending now, instead of promising to cut spending years from now."
HOUSE GOP LEADERSHIP TAKES VICTORY LAP AFTER PASSING TRUMP'S 'ONE BIG, BEAUTIFUL BILL'
"I’d love to stand here and tell the American people, ‘We can cut your taxes and increase spending and everything is going to be just fine.’ But I can’t do that because I'm here to deliver a dose of reality. This bill dramatically increases deficits in the near-term, but promises our government will be fiscally responsible five years from now. Where have we heard that before?" Massie said on the House floor.
House Speaker Mike Johnson and House Republicans celebrated passing Trump's "big, beautiful bill" on Thursday. (Getty Images)
Good found himself out of the job when he lost the Republican primary to now-Rep. John McGuire of Virginia last year.
He was one of just a handful of House Republicans who endorsed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in the 2024 GOP presidential primaries, and then Trump threw his political might behind McGuire.
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act is a multi-trillion-dollar piece of legislation that advances Trump's agenda on taxes, immigration, energy, defense and the national debt.
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While the bill seeks to make a dent in the national debt crisis by cutting roughly $1.5 trillion in government spending, the United States still has over $36 trillion in debt and has spent $1.05 trillion more than it has collected in fiscal year 2025, according to the Treasury Department.
"I think the most essential truth in American politics is that nobody actually really cares about the national debt or deficit. It’s too abstract to saturate public sentiment," Fox News Digital columnist David Marcus said after the bill passed.
Fox News Digital's Elizabeth Elkind contributed to this report.
Deirdre Heavey is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.
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