GOP more divided now than when Trump’s tax bill passed: Bob Cusack

Published July 27, 2026 2:58pm ET | Updated July 27, 2026 2:58pm ET



Washington Examiner Executive Editor Bob Cusack said Republicans are more divided now than when President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act passed a year ago.

“Democrats don’t like this bill, they call it the ‘big ugly bill,’ but unlike Obamacare and Democratic bills, Democrats don’t go as far to say, ‘We want to repeal the whole thing,’ at least most of them don’t,” Cusack said on C-Span’s Washington Journal Monday. 

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