“Low-income Americans would lose health coverage and government food assistance on an unprecedented scale under the giant Republican policy bill,“ the New York Times reports.

“But to hear President Trump and Republican lawmakers describe the bill as it nears a vote in the Senate, it cuts no benefits at all.”

Said Trump: “We’re cutting $1.7 trillion in this bill, and you’re not going to feel any of it.”

“That claim rests on a maneuver embedded throughout the sprawling legislation: Instead of explicitly reducing benefits, Republicans would make them harder to get and to keep. The effect, analysts say, is the same, with millions fewer Americans receiving assistance. By including dozens of changes to dates, deadlines, document requirements and rules, Republicans have turned paperwork into one of the bill’s crucial policy-making tools, yielding hundreds of billions of dollars in savings to help offset their signature tax cuts.”

“After a brief interlude, Elon Musk on Saturday resumed his public wrestling match with President Donald Trump, ripping into the president’s domestic policy bill as ‘utterly insane and destructive’ just as the Senate met to vote on a key procedural step to pass the ‘big beautiful bill,’” Mother Jones reports.

Wrote Musk, on X: “The latest Senate draft bill will destroy millions of jobs in America and cause immense strategic harm to our country!”

In a later post, Musk warned that the bill would be “political suicide” for the Republican Party.

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) told Democratic senators Saturday that he will force the clerks to read the 1,000-page Republican megabill on the Senate floor once Republicans vote to proceed to the legislation, a procedural act of defiance that will take an estimated 12 hours and delay final passage of President Trump’s agenda by half a day — at least, The Hill reports.