The Bipartisan Roots of Trump’s One Good Education Reform

Donald Trump’s only major second term legislative achievement, the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act, is also one of the least popular laws to come out of Washington in years. Composed primarily of deficit-exploding tax cut extensions for corporations and the wealthy, plus effective cuts to health care coverage for middle- and lower-income Americans, the legislation faced nearly 2-to-1 opposition from the public when Trump signed it on July 4, 2025. It also tripled federal spending for ICE...