Critics say Trump’s military takeover in LA is a ‘major distraction’ from his unpopular bill

U.S. Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove, D-Calif., made a similar argument on MSNBC.

“A couple of weeks before, we were battling with Republicans about this reconciliation bill, $880 billion in cuts to Medicaid,” said Kamlager-Dove, who noted that Republicans in the House voted to advance the “One Big Beautiful Bill” “in the middle of the night because they knew it was so bad they didn’t want to talk about it.”