Senate President Phil Berger (File photo)/ President Donald Trump (Getty Images)

President Trump’s massive budget bill moved one step closer to passage yesterday when the U.S. Senate approved it 51-50 over the objection of North Carolina Republican Thom Tillis.

If it becomes law, the bill will have devastating impacts in our state. Among other things, more than half-a-million people will likely lose their Medicaid health insurance.

Amazingly, however, some state politicians remain oblivious – or at least unmoved — by the disastrous storm that’s about to befall our state.

Take Republican state Senate leader Phil Berger. He authored a Facebook post that read quote: “I support President Donald J. Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill and the legislature will work through any implementation issues.”

Uh…earth to Senator Berger: describing the loss of health insurance by hundreds of thousands of people as “implementation issues” is like calling a leg amputation a minor scratch.

The bottom line: The senator and other bill supporters will soon find they are like the proverbial dog that’s caught the bus they were chasing. And all North Carolinians will suffer as a result.

For NC Newsline, I’m Rob Schofield.