President Donald Trump promulgated the One Big Beautiful Bill law on July 4, 2025. He focuses on reducing taxes, mainly for households that earn $ 217,000 or more every year, as well as in increasing funds for military and border security and modernizing social programs.
Republicans promote it as “an economic lifeguard for working families” and “sitting a key cornerstone of the new Golden Age of the United States.”
Democratic legislators argue that, in reality, Trump’s act “steals the poor to give it to the ultra -ups.”
It is estimated that the law will increase the country’s debt by more than 3 billion dollars in 10 years, while leaving more than 10 million people outside of Medicaid.
Around 41.4 million adults in the US receive Medicaid. And 49% of Medicaid beneficiaries who voted in the 2024 elections backed Trump.
While 94% of the Democrats and independents of Democratic tendency said in a May 2025 survey that worries that Medicaid’s cuts make more adults and children lose their medical insurance, 44% of Republicans and independents of republican trend expressed their concern for this, according to the KFF health monitoring survey.
Why, then, Trump’s supporters of Make America Great Again, especially those that will be very affected by cuts to food assistance and medical care programs, including hospitals, continue to support him even when he promulgates policies that some think they go against their interests? In fact, more than 78% of Republicans or voters of republican trend say they support the measure signed Trump.
As an anthropologist who studies Maga and the American political culture, I understand that many of Maga’s faithful believe that Trump is a unique leader in life that is catapulting the United States to a new golden age.
Of course, according to their reasoning, potholes are expected along the way. But they think that most criticism of Trump and this last bill are ultimately, false news disseminated by radical leftists who have what some call Trump’s disorder syndrome, that is, Anti-Trump hysteria.
Only Trump can fix it
In the eyes of Maga’s faithful, Trump is not an ordinary politician. For them, he is a Savior who can help away the threat of radical left socialism. They believe in Trump’s proclamation: “I can only fix it.”
Some see Trump’s survival to an attempt to murder on July 13, 2024 as evidence that he is chosen divinely to lead the country. Trump himself said during his second inaugural speech: “I was saved by God to make the United States again.”
As I have repeatedly observed firsthand in Trump’s rallies and Maga meetings and I have heard in my conversations with Trump’s supporters, many Trump supporters, even those who democrats argue that they will be harmed by the bill, see the bill as a key step to make the United States again to be great. Doing it will not be easy and can cause some pain.
But as Trump himself has pointed out about policies such as tariffs, “sometimes you have to take medications to fix something.”
‘¡Fake News!’
Even if the bill can cause some short -term pain, they maintain the unconditional Maga, the apocalyptic statements of critics of mass health cuts are misleading disseminated by the radical left media. The director of the National Economic Council of the White House, Kevin Hassett, for example, described Medicare’s cutting claims as “great false news.”
This opinion, based on my research and observations, is not surprising. Trump has been promoting the theory of the “conspiracy of false news”, which argues that the media are part of the deep state, since its first mandate. He even nicknamed “the enemy of the people.”
Trump’s false news rhetoric strategy has succeeded in helping him maintain support. Trump’s supporters assume that the negative coverage of news about the president is most likely false news.
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The Trump administration frequently invokes this conspiracy theory, including statements with headlines such as “100 days of deception: cutting the false news”.
The White House is adopting the same approach to the new legislation. In June 2025, the Trump administration issued a statement that said “myth vs. reality: the only great project of beautiful law” and “Myth hunter: the Single and Beautiful Law draft cuts the expense and deficit, and that is a fact.”
There is already evidence that this description is resonating in places such as the rural area of Nebraska, where many residents do not blame Trump for a health clinic that states that it is closing due to Medicaid cuts. “Anyone who says that Medicaid’s cuts are the reason they are closing is a liar,” said a woman about the clinic’s closure.
‘Crushing it’ in the golden age
In more general terms, Maga faithful maintain, critics of the bill lose the overview. For the most part, Trump has been “crushing” while putting “w ‘after’ w ‘on the board.”
From his perspective, Trump has gathered a stars cabinet team that is implementing key pillars of the Maga agenda, such as restricting immigration, blocking unfair trade and avoiding prolonged wars.
Trump’s supporters underline the president’s achievements in immigration. Attempts to cross the border without migrants have collapsed in 2025, in the midst of an increase in immigrants.
“Our message is clear,” said the Undersecretary of the Department of National Security, Tricia McLaughlin, “illegal criminal foreigners are not welcome in the United States.”
Gasoline prices have also come down. Trump has fulfilled his promise to his supporters to purge what he calls the deep state, reducing or destroying entire departments and government agencies.
Trump has taken drastic measures against Woke universities who wash the brain to students, as the Maga supporters see.
He held funds from the University of Pennsylvania until he agreed to prohibit transgender women from playing women’s sports teams. Trump also cut 400 million dollars in funds for Columbia University because the administration said that Jewish students from harassment did not protect enough during protests for the rights of the Palestinians.
And the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, even nominated Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize in July for his diplomatic work in the Middle East.
Upon recounting Trump’s achievements in foreign policy, a conservative commentator said effusively that Trump “promised that we would win so much that we would get tired of winning. Instead, the victories continue to arrive, and the United States is not tired at all.”
Shortness = Trump
However, Trump faces challenges.
A Health Monitoring Survey of June 2025 found that support for the new legislation decreased when people were informed about their negative impact on medical care, for example.
Republicans could also face a violent reaction in 2028 after the total impact of the law enters into force and people lose medical insurance and other public benefits.
Anyway, I think Maga’s faithful will probably continue to support Trump.
They can discuss parts of their bill, air attacks against Iran or the publication of Jeffrey Epstein’s archives.
But, in the end, they will surround Trump for a simple reason. Trump created the Maga Movement. The Republican Party dominates. And there is no Trumpism without Trump.
*Alex Hinton is a distinguished professor of anthropology and director of the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights at Rutgers-Newark University.
This article was originally published in The Conversation/Reuters
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