Just like all the ramp ups and sunset timing Obama did. Nice! |
Better take a good hard look at which model. |
If I were the Dems I would introduce and pass legislation to reverse them. Let the GOP vote against it or Trump veto it. Theb the Dems can message “we tried to undo, but they keep screwing you.” |
That means there's time to fix it all after the midterms. Republic are hilarious. Putting everything on the Dems. |
Hospitals and ERs have been screwed by addicts, illegals, and insured for decades. No one leaves their real name or address. Duh. |
MAGA voted to increase the deficit so the rich can get tax cuts and screw the poor (themselves) out of services. Oh well. Elections have consequences |
Prisons, pesticides, polio and debt. What a future kids! |
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Funny that Trump said this morning he had no problem if the bill vote is delayed. Another TACO move and proof he’s hollow puppet. |
There are all sorts of rules about what can be in a reconciliation bill, and one of them, I thought, was that it couldn't affect federal employee levels. So all the proposed cuts to NOAA and the CDC and the National Park Service, as well as everywhere else - I'm not sure but I think those aren't in there? |
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Half of us do care. US is run by minority rule under the Electoral College. |
Study? Who studies? That's Commie talk. |
The BBB includes rescission of IRA funds (and rescission of ESA enforcement funds...?) but no real changes to most government departments and agencies. All of the DOGE cuts and (unlawful) reorganizations of the first half of this year, they are not in the BBB.
There's going to be a lot of rehiring, unfiring, and new hiring (if they convince anyone to work for the federal government after this year) in FY26. |
Well, all those rural and small town voters in Texas, Missouri, Indiana and elsewhere will be reaping the whirlwind in the years ahead. 17 million of them are about to lose their health insurance. Rural hospitals will be closing. Their monthly energy bills will be skyrocketing. Alternative energy jobs are gone. I have no idea how small town America is going to make it through. Plus, while markets may be up, the value of the dollar has declined by 15 percent since Trump took office, which is far more impactful to rural America than those with a 401k account. For the farmers, their source of labor is gone. They are either getting deported or they're not crossing the border to begin with. Plus Republicans have wrecked their ag markets with their dumb trade wars. And obviously any rural voter that voted over the deficit has clearly been hoodwinked. Republicans just added another $3.3 trillion of debt.
These voters will be very reachable in 2028. We are here today because Democrats anointed a deeply unpopular 83 year old geriatric as their candidate. And followed up at the last minute with a deeply unpopular VP who couldn't even make it to the Iowa caucuses when she ran, much less win Iowa. This would be a very different America if Democrats actually had an open primary. We'll see what Democrats do this time. The path is cleared for them. But if they continue to roll with their corrupt and cynical old guard - like Pelosi, Schumer, the Clintons - or embrace the wealthy dilettante progressives like Mamdani in NYC - they will still lose even in the face of idiocy of the GOP. This is the moment for Democrats. And I am not optimistic. |