President Trump has been a strong voice of contempt against the anti-Christian rhetoric in the mainstream media. Some would say he’s been the strongest Christian advocate with his creation of the Religious Liberty Commission and the Faith-Based Office, seated within the Domestic Policy Council. 

Yet, not all people of faith are in the president’s corner, specifically with his ardent fervor over the “Big, Beautiful Bill.” Recently, the beloved bill was the epicenter of grand political hullabaloo between Trump and the departed Elon Musk. Now, many faith leaders across varied denominations gathered in Washington D.C. to protest the bill earlier this week on the steps of the U.S. Senate. 

Led by Rev. Jim Wallis, who helped spearhead the Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships initiative in the Obama administration, the organized protest centered its ire on the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act.” 

“Some say that we should keep faith out of politics – we’re saying while the Bible doesn’t give us detailed legislation, it tells us who to care for,” Wallis said. “We don’t want to let Jesus Christ be left outside the Senate chamber for this vote.”

The main talking point from the protest is that the “big bad bill,” as it was being called, will purportedly “take 60 million people off healthcare,” which goes against the teachings of Jesus Christ to care for the poor (Prov. 19:17), the weak (Psalm 82:3), the elderly (Leviticus 19:32), the meek (Matthew 5:5), and the hurting (Romans 12:14). 

As part of an activist-labeled movement called “Moral Mondays,” faith leaders gathered to discuss the unnamed people this bill would allegedly make worse off financially. 

One leader,  Charlottesville, Virginia-based Reverend Tony Andres, says he was there to voice his concerns about the planned $700 billion cut to Medicaid. 

“This is a moral responsibility. It’s not simply money. It’s not simply politics,” Andres said. “You’ve got people on Medicaid, Medicare, handicapped people who will be direly hit, and some of them may well die because of this.” 

Another advocate noted that “no child should starve for a tax cut,” touching upon the Medicaid and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits in the budget bill passed by the House last month. 

Bishop Dwyane Royster of the Faith United Church of Christ in Washinton, D.C., who is also executive director of “Faith in Action,” had some moving words to say about the government as a whole. 

“We need to call out our government’s insufficiency because there are people who will go hungry all across the land because SNAP benefits are about to get cut,” Bishop Royster continued. “The problem is that Jesus fed the 5,000; why can’t the United States of America?”

Then, U.S. Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) and the Rev. Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) got involved in the protest.

Grateful to co-host a vigil at the US Capitol with Rev. @jimwallis for hundreds of faith leaders to bear witness against the GOP’s immoral tax bill. As Rev. Wallis reminded us, we are taught: “Do not forget the least of these.” That’s exactly what this immoral legislation does. pic.twitter.com/qrrqWLMsGM

— Senator Chris Coons (@ChrisCoons) June 10, 2025

Warnock, who is also the senior pastor of Atlanta’s historic Ebenezer Baptist Church (the former pulpit of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.), said, “As I stood there, I said then what I want to say today: That a budget is not just a fiscal document, it’s a moral document.” He continued, “Show me your budget, and I’ll show you who you think matters and who does not – who you think is dispensable.”

Although the bill was passed in the House, it faces numerous obstacles in the Senate.