Former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly said Tuesday that one large hurdle remains for the “Big Beautiful Bill,” despite its narrow passage in the Senate.
The Senate narrowly passed President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” in a 51-50 vote, with Vice President JD Vance breaking the tie. In a Tuesday episode of “No Spin News,” O’Reilly said the pressure on members of Congress is “enormous.”
“The House bill wasn’t the same as the Senate bill, but I do expect that the House will pass this, [and] 218 votes are needed, or is close to the first time. But any congressperson who wants to run again on the GOP ticket voting against the bill is done,” O’Reilly said. “So just keep that in mind. Pressure’s enormous.”
O’Reilly discussed the three GOP senators who voted against the measure.
“The Senate passed the big bill. OK. Vote was 50-50, a tie. And what happens when there’s a tie in the Senate vote? The vice president breaks that tie, and he did. JD Vance voted for the bill,” O’Reilly said. “And so it passed the Senate. Three dissenters on the Republican side. Collins of Maine, Paul of Kentucky, Tillis of North Carolina. They did not like the bill. So now it goes back to the House for a vote.”
Republican Sens. Thom Tillis of North Carolina, Rand Paul of Kentucky, and Susan Collins of Maine opposed the president’s sweeping domestic policy legislation. Tillis, a moderate GOP senator who announced his retirement hours after opposing Trump in a procedural vote Saturday, cited the bill’s Medicaid reforms as his reason for withdrawing support from Trump’s signature legislation.
Collins, also a GOP moderate, voted “no” on the president’s domestic policy bill, citing concerns over the budget package’s ambitious Medicaid reforms and expressing a preference for the Senate’s original two-bill approach. Senate GOP leadership also lost Paul’s vote as he strongly opposed the Senate bill’s $5 trillion debt limit increase, and he repeatedly said he would have supported the bill without the debt ceiling hike.
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