North Carolina Republican senator to leave Congress after clash with Trump

An American Republican Senator from North Carolina said that he would not present himself to the re -election of next year, one day after opposing a sprawling budgetary bill which is the key to the agenda of President Donald Trump.

Thom Tillis, 64, announced that he would leave the congress because he said that independent thinkers in Washington had become “an endangered species”.

Trump criticized Tillis on Saturday for not having supported Big Beautiful Bill Act and threatened to support other candidates.

The president also denounced other colleagues Republican legislators who oppose his bill, notably Senator Rand Paul and the member of the Congress Thomas Massie, both of Kentucky.

A final vote from the Senate on the adoption of the expense plan is expected in the coming days. He narrowly cleaned the House of Representatives last month.

Tillis has occupied a public service in North Carolina since 2007 and has been a senator since 2015.

In his statement on Sunday, he said that he was proud of his career in the public service, and especially what he called the “Bipartite victories”.

“Sometimes these bipartite initiatives caused me to trouble with my own party, but I would not have changed one,” he wrote.

He has added that in recent years, legislators who “have been ready to adopt bipartisanat, compromise and demonstrate an independent thought” have become a rare spectacle in Washington.

“Too many elected officials are motivated by a pure raw policy that really does not care about the people they have promised to represent on the campaign track,” wrote Tillis.

Trump called Tillis on Sunday “a speaker and a complainant”.

He was one of the two Republican senators who voted against the progress of the Trump expenses and tax reductions on Saturday.

Tillis said that the Cups of Medicaid legislation, a health care program that is used by millions of older and low -income old Americans would be “devastating” for people in North Carolina.

The bill offers a work requirement on most adults in order to qualify for services.

It also reduces the amount of taxes that states can charge for medical providers, funds from which are used strongly to finance Medicaid.

“I did my homework on behalf of the North Carolinians, and I cannot support this bill in its current form,” said Tillis on Saturday. “This would lead to tens of billions of dollars in funding lost for North Carolina.”

The Republicans who support the bill have rejected Tillis’ criticism, saying that the modifications proposed to Medicaid will eliminate fraud and waste and ensure that the program is viable in the long term.

The Congressional Budget Office, a non -partisan federal agency, said late Saturday that changes would lead to nearly 12 million Americans losing their health coverage.

Trump also threatened to support another candidate in republican primary before next year’s mid-term elections, saying that he would meet “many” pretenders to challenge Tillis.

Speculation is already widespread that Lara Trump, the president’s daughter-in-law from North Carolina, could arise for the siege, although she has not commented.

Trump has published threats similar to other legislators who have not supported his renowned bill.

The American media Politico reported on Sunday, citing anonymous sources, which the White House was looking for Challengers of Thomas Massie.

Trump nicknamed Massie a “loser” in an article on the Truth social platform last week.

“He votes:” No! “On everything, because he thinks it makes him cool,” wrote the president.