Donald Trump has hit out at Senator Thom Tillis over the North Carolina Republican’s refusal to back his “big, beautiful bill”, even as the president’s signature piece of domestic legislative action narrowly passed a procedural vote in the Senate late Saturday.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump threatened Tillis, who is up for re-election in 2026 in the battleground state, by saying he would meet with potential candidates to challenge him in a Republican primary.
“Numerous people have come forward wanting to run” against Tillis, Trump wrote Saturday night. “I will be meeting with them over the coming weeks, looking for someone who will properly represent the Great People of North Carolina and, so importantly, the United States of America.”
Tillis was one of two Senate Republicans, along with Rand Paul of Kentucky, to vote against the bill championed by their party’s leader.
Trump accused Tillis of grandstanding “in order to get some publicity for himself, for a possible, but very difficult re-election”. He also wrote that Tillis is making a “BIG MISTAKE for America, and the Wonderful People of North Carolina!”
The threat came hours after Tillis said in a statement that he “cannot support” the current form of the president’s spending bill. He pointed to expected cuts to Medicaid that he said would “result in tens of billions of dollars in lost funding for North Carolina, including our hospitals and rural communities”.
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