{"id":178814,"date":"2025-07-04T17:50:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T17:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/04\/ill-think-about-it-andy-beshear-mulls-2028-run-while-raging-against-trumps-big-beautiful-bill\/"},"modified":"2025-07-04T17:50:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T17:50:20","slug":"ill-think-about-it-andy-beshear-mulls-2028-run-while-raging-against-trumps-big-beautiful-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/04\/ill-think-about-it-andy-beshear-mulls-2028-run-while-raging-against-trumps-big-beautiful-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI\u2019ll Think About It.\u201d Andy Beshear Mulls 2028 Run While Raging Against Trump\u2019s \u201cBig Beautiful Bill\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"


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The governor was getting to be a dad. For a few hours, anyway. Andy Beshear<\/strong> was at a baseball field in Richmond, Kentucky, watching his 16-year-old son play. But this was last Tuesday, hours after U.S. Senate Republicans had passed the so-called \u201cBig Beautiful<\/a>\u201d budget bill that would bestow billions in tax breaks<\/a> on the wealthy while imposing a $1 trillion reduction in Medicaid and slashing food assistance programs for the poor.<\/p>\n

Beshear had been, for weeks, one of the leading Democrats in sounding the alarm<\/a>. So he wasn\u2019t surprised when a fellow baseball parent started talking to him about how the eastern Kentucky hospital where she works would likely be forced to close by the looming federal cuts.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s nothing beautiful about kicking 200,000 Kentuckians off their health care coverage. There\u2019s nothing beautiful about firing 20,000 health care workers, and there\u2019s nothing beautiful about closing 35 rural hospitals,\u201d Beshear tells me, the volume and heat of his words rising.<\/p>\n

Beshear had been hoping that stirring up enough awareness and anger could somehow help derail the bill. But he\u2019s a political realist and knew the worst was likely to happen. So on Thursday, when a handful of holdout House Republicans caved and the $3.3-trillion domestic policy bill, pushed by President Donald Trump<\/strong>, was approved by the slimmest of margins, Beshear had already been out front telling voters who to blame for the coming economic damage.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt just defies logic that many rural members of Congress are voting for something that is just going to devastate their communities,\u201d he says. \u201cThey may not think people are paying attention now, but it\u2019s going to be front page local news, it\u2019s going to be first story nightly news, when that five or six story building that employs hundreds or maybe a thousand people closes and you drive past it every day and you see what your Republican member of Congress did to your community.\u201d<\/p>\n

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