If it’s a Republican policy goal to hand a tax break of $4.9 trillion over the next 10 years to businesses and wealthy Americans, as stated in their “big, beautiful bill,” they should make that clear in broad daylight, rather than in a 1 a.m. vote.

If it’s a Republican policy goal to fund that tax break of $4.9 trillion by gutting Medicaid for millions of Americans, they need to own that decision in broad daylight.

If it’s a Republican policy goal to fund that tax break of $4.9 trillion by reducing the Federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), they need to own that decision in broad daylight.

If it’s a Republican policy goal to fund that tax break of $4.9 trillion, even as Moody’s — for the first time since 1919 — downgraded the United States credit rating based on its estimate of the explosion of debt it would create, Republicans need to own that decision in broad daylight.

Because these points are what voters are going to hear — again and again and again — come the midterm elections in 2026. So Republicans might as well explain that policy vision now; it’ll be theirs to own — whether they like it or not.

Brett Willis
Falmouth