Michael Gibson: The Most Dangerous Part of the Big Beautiful Bill
Michael Gibson, CEO, Former Special Forces at Norm Therapy, posted on LinkedIn:
“The most dangerous part of the Big Beautiful Bill?
It’s not what’s in the headlines. It’s what’s buried beneath them. Everyone’s talking about hospital closures, bank collapses and food stamps vanishing. Those are the symptoms. None of that is the core threat. The BBB didn’t just defund America. It detonated the system that kept it together.
Now, under the BBB, many of these programs were converted into capped block grants or subjected to “budget-neutral” restructuring, meaning:
The federal share is no longer guaranteed. States have to front more of the cost just to access reduced federal support. If a state can’t afford the match, the service doesn’t get delivered; not less delivered, just gone. The real disease? The dismantling of “Federal Conditional Funding”; the almost invisible mechanism that’s held this nation together since the New Deal.
For nearly a century, the U.S. used financial leverage to ensure every state met minimum national standards for healthcare, education, disaster response, civil rights, and infrastructure. That’s not socialism. That’s cohesion. That’s how a country with 50 states stays unified.
Under the Big Beautiful Bill, that glue is dissolving. Medicaid? No longer protected. FEMA relief? Politicized. School funding? Stripped of safeguards. Environmental standards? Optional, if your governor hates regulation. This bill gives states the ability to opt out of being civilized; without consequence.
So here’s the long game: Red states; the same ones suffering most, are being handed more control with less oversight. They’re being turned into disaster capitalism zones, where private contractors get rich. FEMA is being replaced with favors. Aid is now selective, not standard. Recovery will depend on political alignment; not need.
This isn’t just cruelty. It’s a blueprint for political balkanization.We are watching the unraveling of federal cohesion in real time. No more “One Nation, under God.” Now it’s “Fifty Tiers, under Trump.” If you live in a red state, don’t think you’ll be spared. Your schools. Your hospitals. Your water. Your electricity. Your basic dignity; all of it now depends on how obedient your governor is to Trump’s shadow government.
This is about control. About punishment; about breaking the financial spine of the United States until the idea of unity becomes a slogan, not a structure. So the next time someone tells you the BBB is about “trimming fat” or “draining the swamp,” you tell them this:
This hits poor states hardest; which, ironically, are mostly red and heavily Trump-voting. These are the same places where hospitals are closing, teachers are quitting, and storms are hitting harder. The BBB doesn’t save them. It starves them.
So when a state can’t keep up, the pain looks local. But the cause is national. That’s the brilliance; and the cruelty, of killing the matching model. It doesn’t just break the safety net. It shifts blame to the very communities being abandoned.”
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