The bill passed regardless of the DemoRats and the Traitorpublicans. The Senate still welshed on the Suppressor act and the Short Act, reducing the tax to $0, but retaining the registration. There's a lot left to do, but this is a start.
It's a shame no DC elected officials (no, not one) knows and believes the Constitution, knows or enforces fiscal responsibility, and still provide programs outside the enumerated powers. DC is a cluster designed only to perpetuate the power of elected officials.
Yes, politicians have punted the football for decades on major issues, and neither party has dealt with them. Trump is the first to actually put forth a solution and try to settle some of these problems. But the ship of government is huge... he is just getting started.
And now, when they have a chance to cut illegal aliens off from Medicare and Medicaid, Democrats vote against it... Proving that they are just virtue signaling when they say that they are concerned about seniors, and poor people...
When the only people they're concerned with are illegal aliens, not US citizens. This fact is totally proven, by the way, they have spent tons of money to house illegals, yet they're Americans on the street, homeless. Disgusting.
Yep. As I understand the Medicaid issue, it is cutting waste, fraud, and abuse. If you are an able bodied citizen, you need to get a job or do some type of volunteer work to qualify. If you here illegally, no more free health care sorry.
The courts are not a viable route for challenging an outcome that benefits free-riders. The requirement for getting into court says that you must be “injured personally” by the law. The only people “injured” here are people who don’t like having their tax dollars spent unwisely. That type of injury is insufficient in the courts. If the free-riders had lost this one, they would have standing to sue, because they could point to a real loss. The. Federal courts don’t recognize broad “you’re wasting my tax dollars” types of injuries.
Able bodied people will have to work 20 hours a week or volunteer. My understanding is is that there will be no automatic increases in spending, not that there will be cuts.
Vast majority yeah, but also 1.5 million illegal aliens. And when an illegal goes to the emergency room and gets free care, where does the clinic reimbursement come from? Yep, medicaid.
The states receive Medicaid money for their programs. In California, it's called Medi-Cal, and the state proudly proclaims Medi-Cal coverage for everyone, regardless of citizenship status. Now California will have a good portion of the funding cut off and will have to decide whether or not it wishes to continue this practice (as the state is in a free-fall debt). This bill forces states to consider who and what is most important to fund. The states that insist they will cover illegal aliens will have to find their own funds--tax their own citizens into oblivion, not every taxpayer in the country.
Yep, it doesn't surprise me that those squishy Rs and Marxist-democrats always try to keep us from arming ourselves as we see fit. I have my doubts as well that the worms in the house will fight that. Now that would surprise me. Assholes.
This bill has some laudable features, enhanced border security being a big one. But Trump joins almost all members of Congress - both parties - in kicking the fiscal can down the road. The national debt will only get bigger, and voters are being promised a free lunch rather than having to pay for what they want government to do. One out of five stars for Trump, zero stars for Democrats.
The other problem is that the media narrative for government spending, will call a frozen budget, a cut.
How that works is, if the budget was supposed to go up for a particular department by 10%, and it only gets increased by 5%, the dishonest media reports it as a 5% budget reduction! Complete and utter dishonesty.
It is like you and me getting a new job. We thought we were going to get the job that gave us a $20,000 raise, but the new job only gives us a $10,000 raise. Should we go around complaining that our wages got cut by $10,000?...
Totally bogus. The government does all kinds of things that, if a business did it, there would be prison time!
No. It gives ALL of the savings to the Pentagon and billionaires. That's why it's a budget buster - and irresponsible. Which is why Rand Paul spoke out against it and why Elon is so pissed off. He risked his job at Tesla for nothing because Trump turned around and gave the savings away
Biden added OVER $1.5 trillion dollars to the budget. As part of his Inflation Reduction Act.
This budget cuts Federal spending by $1.5 trillion.
The reduction in tax rates means that overall there will be more economic activity and income, so just like happened in Reagan's term, he tax cut for the middle class and small business especially, will grow the economy, and total taxes will grow, even though the tax rate is reduced.
What? Trump didn't increase spending by over $1.5 trillion a year-- Biden did.
The Inflation Reduction Act (NOT) resulted in inflation going up to over 9%, in the summer of 2022. That's what happens when you print money and inject it into the economy that way.
Tend to agree. I haven't read 900 pages of congress critter verbiage. But from what I've gathered, not sure I'm 100% behind this BBB. And the ongoing 'feud' with Musk. I'm wondering, is this just a precursor, teaser even, to something Trump has waiting in the wings to ride on top of the BBB?
My heart breaks for Elon. He learned the hard way that politicians use one to the fullest then kick one to the curb. Unless, of course, one is willing to join politicians in corruption.
Elon said many a time that he does NOT need subsidies. And I believe him. You know why? Because I see how he can be successful without subsidies.
Here is what’s WRONG. When a company whose planes’ doors and wheels fall off while in flight, which overruns government given projects by billions of dollars while missing deadlines by years with no end in sight is getting another Pentagon project worth more billions and Musk’s StarX, which does on a fly what the other company, despite being paid a fortune, fails to do, is left in the dust.
You are correct, Elon will live. It’s We The People are getting screwed once again and YOU keep defending those who are screwing us. 🤯🤬
Can you explain how you find your “logic” acceptable?
I have no ill will towards Elon. If I were personally in charge of the budget, the government would go back to pre-FDR. They are too big and were never meant to have their tendrils in every single part of our lives. They should concern themselves with their Constitutional role, which is to protect and defend our land and our civil liberties and that's it. My logic? We don't live in the world I want. Unfortunately, in order to do 2 things that are very important to me, the lawmakers have to make compromises. Those 2 things? 1. If we did it my way, how many votes do you think I'd get in the next election? Enough to keep it away from the people who believe they can just print a trillion dollar coin? Nope. I'd have to be willing to hand it over to a party who knows no bounds on spending which causes inflation and they don't even try to figure out a way to earn the money back. They bring in more people so the pie can be split even more and everyone can stay barely surviving without power to do anything about it. 2. I want 10,000 people a day deported. How am I going to get that if there aren't enough resources to make even half that possible? I'm not. So, in order to get what I want, which is keeping Democrats in their current form out of office and to deport as many people as possible, I have to compromise with enough people who have different goals. We don't have 60 votes in the Senate. So my logic is having to Unfortunately deal with reality.
Do you have some power I'm unaware of that can stop them? They all steal. I've been voting my entire life and everything just gets worse and worse. I've voted for Democrats and Republicans and Independents. As far as I can tell, none of them have made life better. You seem to think I can zap them out of existence. I'm sorry to say I don't have that power.
What Elon doesn't understand and I commend him for the content of his criticism, but he doesn't understand that passing bills in Congress is a lot like making sausage. It's not very pretty.
So, the reality is, when you only have a simple majority, they're always going to be those who ask for special "perks" so that they vote for the bill.
That is how we got into this mess, in the first place.
Yes, I too don’t understand. When the corrupt are asking for special perks. EXPOSE them and their perks. The ONLY time this does not work when you are corrupt and want perks too, right?
I recall how Democrats after losing their majority in Congress found a way to live WITHOUT a budget for how long, 4(?) years, or was it 6(?)?
How quickly we forget the masterclass of the Harry Reid.
We are on the pass to $50 trln. NO healthy growth in economy will lead us out of this cancer. Treating a cancer with another cancer is a brilliant idea worth a Nobel Prize.
So, is it Elon who does not understand, or is it We The People being screwed one time over.
Remember, screw me once, shame on you, screw me again, and again, …, and again … when will WE learn?
What, Elon was the traitor. Who needs someone who pretends to be your friends and then does a complete stab in the back? That is exactly what Elon did.
And well Elon sez if this bill passes, he will start a new party, The American Party.
Yeahhh, right Elon. We been there, done that with another billionaire, RossPerot...back when you were only 20 and still in So.Africa. That's how we got the Clintons.
If a 2nd conservative party is created, the DEMS will be re-engergized and rule the US forever.
I love Elon's passion, but I think he's politically naive'.
I forgot to mention that the two-party system actually worked pretty well in 2016. When the Demos got too elitist, leaving working-class Whites without any party to speak for them, the Repos got populist. Horrors!
Who knows... Elon was brought in to DOGE his way to uge savings, which are claimed to be $160–190 billion though independent audits indicate substantial overestimation and high implementation costs vs. the megabill: $4.5 trillion in tax cuts, $5 trillion debt ceiling increase, adds $3.3 trillion to deficits over a decade. Maybe Elon figured his contributions were not beloved sufficiently and his Tesla stock is down 12% while the Dow is up 5% in the past month, so maybe he's feeling grumpy... and poor.
He risked his reputation and Tesla to do slash and burn only to see Trump squander the savings - he then became part if Trump's grift. He has a right to be pissed off
Musk’s feud with Trump was always an act to delude the rubes. It never had a single real moment and was entirely orchestrated by the White House to distract from all of Trump’s idiocies, failures, and evil. Musk knows what he’s doing is fake as does Trump.
Hahahaha How many MAN were able to build 5 unicorns without a single failure? But in the mind of Karen, -what an appropriate name!! ❤️❤️❤️ -, Musk is a fool.
Trump, in her single-cell-brain is a failure, idiot, and evil.
Know NOTHING foul-mouthed Karen MUST be a femiNAZI, leftist in a word.
It's funny how many Democrats, really are busybody Karens...In this case, literally.
If Republicans don't like something, they don't partake in it. They allow people to make their own decisions.
If Democrats don't like something, they try to outlaw it for everybody else. (Obviously NOT including murdering your unborn baby, up to the day of birth, and celebrating it.)
Republicans are in favor of enforcing laws against crime...
Democrats want to force all their woke garbage down everyone's throat. People got really tired of that, hence our election results last November.
I suppose that's the yin and yang of life. On one hand, your are the world's richest man (yeah!) and on the other, you're kicked to the curb by the president of the world's largest economy that you help get elected (boo hoo!).
Trust me. When you have a billionaire, and you have the President of the United States in the same room, yeah you're dealing with some egos. Totally slamming somebody in public like Elon did is not the best way to air out your grievances.
Seriously? Elon was the epitome of a "fair weather friend" and I am disappointed. He fooled Trump too. It's a "fool me once, shame on you" situation in my opinion. Do we need now a third party? Hell, no.
Who named you the comment police and expert? I said what I said, either like it or not but stop with your comments now. And stop "repeating yourself" thank you.
Glad you enjoyed the lesson....keep it close. You'll need it. I don't have to prove anything to the likes of you...a sad and pathetic narcissist. Keep humiliating your lack of character.
Neofascist Oligarchy!! This new stupid catchphrase is another thing thrown out for the fools to chase after like obedient dogs. Slobbering and drooling over whatever they can sink their jaws into. It's so predictable it's pitiful.
Sadly, like all the other big... bills, we and the actual agencies will need to read the bill to find out what's in the bill. Total Horse biscuits. If the Republican kept the Medicare changes to largely denial to illegals, it may help force self deportation.
The Democrats spent 16 hours yesterday reading it aloud on the house floor (delay tactic) .... I believe C-Span covered it all....... Now you could've just watched it there.
This is the giant scam of giant bills. I still remember Pres. Reagan showing the American People the giant bill with the cranberry bog research funding. Sadly Reagan also pushed for and got private "scientific studies" funded by corporations, which forever ruined the National Academy of Sciences and trust in science. My point is all bills should be completely limited by moratorium, allow only existing levels of funding or less in smaller bill packages with every expense having first been approved by budget calculation and a DOGE like process to show all corrupt spending.
The Congress and nations Bureaucracies are elephant sized lemmings running towards the cliffs edge and driving us all along with it.
Lol, we need to initiate term limits, without pentions, and make insider trading and taking any form of kickback a crime punishable by immediate forfeiture of their position and all salary earned from the date of the act... then if Im alive and nobody better is running, which means we're in trouble, then I would run.
It's no excuse, but as long as the likes of Murkowski, Collins, Tillis, Cassidy, Banks, Capito-Moore, Cornyn, Curtis, McConnell, Paul, Rounds, Young, et al. – all undocumented Democrats, are in office, they are a threat to completely derail Trump's efforts to effect the America First agenda.
The preservation of Medicaid fraud and waste is problematic, to be sure, but there are still too many congressional Republicans in both chambers either in on the grift, or too afraid of the lies that are told by the synchronised legacy corporate media about people being denied services. I don't see why that can't be achieved by amending eligibility requirements at the agency level.
In any event, it's the preservation and the protection of the tax cuts that most matter. As McConnell, Tillis, and hopefully Collins, Cassidy, and maybe even Paul exit and are replaced with MAGA, America First folks, that on which compromise had to be made can be revisited.
Who's we Kemosabe and what have you really won? It certainly isn't me, "we" is the USA. MAGA means Miriam Adelsen Governs America. You should become more informed.
Not one single Trumper will care that their kids die from preventable illnesses and lack of hospital treatment, because no Trumper cares about their kids. All MAGAts ever wanted was to make sure that only straight white males ever got any benefits out of life and they will celebrate living in refrigerator boxes and cooking pigeons on curtain rods just so long as all the Blacks, gays, women who aren’t pathetic doormats, and anyone who can read without moving their mouths doesn’t have a box, a curtain rod, or a sparrow.
And quit pretending that you give one shit about anyone on Medicaid. If you cared about the poor you would never, ever be a MAGAt.
She's makes good points but in a Sasha click bate kinda way and you fell for it! How you doing? BTW, I like you. Yuo got spunk, energy and make good points!
You support a party that thinks children should be allowed to be castrated, mutilated, on behalf of a psychological disorder. You support a party that thinks abortion at anytime during a pregnancy is acceptable, including up to the ninth month. You support a party that allowed childern to be trafficked across a wide open border. Approximately 200,000 childern were unaccounted for under Biden/Harris. Where are they? Sold, sodomized, tossed out like trash? You support a party that thinks children should have access to gay porn in elementary schools. You support a party of pedophiles and predators and you have the fucking nerve to call Trump supporters uncaring. Your party doesn't give a shit about anyone let alone childern. Your mouth breathing stupidity is exact why the Democrat party is so widely despised. I've yet to read any comment from you remotely connected to reality. Does that explain the errors in your obscene comment?
It's funny, how the party that makes it legal to kill babies a day before their due date, the party that forces girls to compete in sports and get undressed in front of males, the party that forces children to get mutilating surgeries because they're supposedly trans...
The party that walks around with Hamas flags Mexican flags and attacks ICE agents...
They call MAGA Nazis.
This Democrat party is the closest we've ever had to Nazis in this country! And Antifa and BLM are their brownshirts.
And now they've nominated a communist for the mayor of New York City...
They're well on their way to becoming highly irrelevant. Anybody with any amount of sanity, cannot embrace, let alone accept, all the woke crap that they embrace
These people are anti-human, anti-American, anti-facts, anti-science. The angry, self-loathing, man-hating shrews are relentless in spreading their chronic dissatisfaction far and wide. Outside their blue enclaves, these people would be red flagged for metal issues.
How does any of that refute my true statement that you want a world run by and exclusively for the benefit of straight white males where no one but straight white males have any rights at all?
Exactly! I didn't actually believe that was true until I saw the comments about this bill and why people support it. It's all white men's revenge. It's sad and really really cruel
Umm, wipe your mouth. You're drooling / spitting all over.
Boh, oh boy... You people on the Left can sure rant...
Angry angry angry...
Holy fuck.
The more you Dems double down on your woke insanity, the more moderate and old-school liberal Dems you will lose. Which will result in even a larger percentage of Democrats being the angry, hate everybody radicals, like you...the "throw-the-food-at-the-wall" in the nursing home type of person.
Screaming at the world, and calling people names, or shouting at full volume...doesn't win any converts.
It just makes people realize that you're totally batshit crazy.
And yeah, now the Democrats are concerned that men don't want to vote for them... Geez, umm maybe it's because they've hated on men for years and years. Only males that are going to stick around your party are the soy boys.
P.S. Yeah. Loving your kids doesn't include sucking them into a sink...
That seems to be a badge of honor among angry white feminine liberals.
And still no effort to make a positive case for Trump.
Because there isn’t one. NOTHING he does benefits anyone Trump doesn’t see whrn he looks in thr mirror. You’re just a bigot who wants to see people better than you suffer. Like all MAGAts.
Bullshit. No Trumper has never made an positive case for why anyone should support him. He himself has never tried to appeal to anyone but his base of stupid cultists. His ONLY platform is ‘Billionaires need more money’ and ‘Democrats are icky girls.’ Can you name one single solitary actual policy of his that isn’t utterly catastrophic?
Yes, he is making good on siphoning off even more pieces of the pie for the 1+% and then the even more rarefied billionaire group and the even more rarefied mulitbillionare group and then his group which includes just 1 cult leader - a multibillionaire, 2X president of the United States whose wives have all been gold digging trophies. He shouldn't shit post on Truth Social that folks are bullying him because he can legit claim the above. But I kinda don't blame him. He's like, look, I'm living the aspirational dream that really isn't attainable, but yet I am. And I'm silly to boot!
How about shutting the border to the Biden/Harris tsunami of illegals? Shutting down the green energy boondoggle that seemed to lack the capacity to realize that EVs count on fossil fuels. Permanent tax cuts that benefit the middle class. Foreign policies that attempt resolution instead creating more problems because of a lack of competency that allowed the conflict in the first place. Promoting equal trade instead of allowing lopsided trade deals that benefit everyone else.
1. So long as the tipped minimum wage exists, allowing employers to pay tipped employees about half the regular minimum wage, ‘no taxes on tips’ is completely empty. Tipped employees will never make enough money to have to pay taxes in the first place.
2. Again, this is meaningless because Trump had loosened to useless the laws regulating who can get overtime. Employers can juggle schedules so that an employee has to work 90 hours for three weeks and no hours the fourth, thus never actually accruing ‘overtime’ for the month and getting NO extra pay.
This is typical Trumper. A slogan with no substance behind it. Much better policy would be to let the billionaire tax breaks expire, eliminate the ‘tipped’ exception to minimum wage laws, and really enforce overtime laws.
You clearly don't know anyone that makes a living from tips. It's illegal to not pay tax on tips. Trump has nothing to do with overtime as the employer controls employment, scheduling and earned wage. Again, a vacuous argument that defaults to "billionaires" beacuse actually understanding what you're talking about is too much work.
And you know nothing about the law or its enforcement, or my argument.
Tips: again, the REAL problem is that it’s legal to pay a much lower minimum wage to anyone who gets tips. Yes, they have to pay taxes on the tips, but very few of them will make a high enough yearly wage to owe federal taxes at all. This is mostly a benefit to employers who can still underpay waiters but also be freed from some paperwork. The alleged ‘beneficiaries’ won’t see one more dime but the owners sure will.
Overtime: federal law and rules define what, exactly, ‘overtime’ means. Employers CONSTANTLY cheat by defining everyone on staff as a ‘manager’ or by, again, scheduling employees so that they work exactly the right number of hours over a month, but done in a way that actually requires the employee to work two or three insanely excessive weeks so that they can’t get any real rest or manage life stuff. Further, Trump won’t enforce even the absurdly lax standards he will impose, so employers will get away with abusing their employees who have no recourse to any help.
Trump was always a boss, never a grunt, so his sympathies are ONLY with the Bosses. He has no desire to make life any better for anyone other than himself.
I guess for you, your Trump hatred is the only thing that brings you fulfillment in an otherwise joyless existence. Wallowing in the seething rage of profound ignorance must be so excruciating for you that you feel the need to share it so that everyone here can witness firsthand the lunatic ravings of someone in the throws of a mental collapse.
I've got a picture in my head. Now, of what she is like. Has to be one of these women screaming to the sky as loud as they can... Refusing to talk to anybody. Just screaming as loud as they can.
It's a great way to convince people that you're right and you know what you're talking about 😂😂
Screaming like an idiot! Wtf? These people have been spewing out these same old boring tropes for the last eight years! We've heard it all before! And they're still attempting to retread the same old shit pretending it isn't the same old shit.
Then again, she was Black so she doesn’t matter to you at all. She’s like every other woman in your world — ONLY worth being mindless incubators for the actual people: males. Women in TrumperWorld are nothing but sex toys and baby factories.
You just can't double down hard enough on your moronacy. First of all, her race is irrelevant. This woman was brain-dead. Why would she need an abortion? I'm sure the family will find comfort in her son being born and raised in a family that will love him as they loved their daughter. Your argument is so stunning in its perversion. Shocking!
Her family wanted her removed from life support. Also, her family probably didn’t want millions of dollars in medical debt that they’re now stuck with and which no antiabortion person will ever contribute one single dime to alleviate.
Unfortunately, Congress did a bait and switch on the “No Tax On Tips”. According to Grok, the employee and employer must still pay FICA taxes on all tips: in the restaurant industry, we must compute the percentage of charged tips a server receives, and thin apply that percentage to the server’s sales. In this manner, the IRS captures any cash tips the server may receive and makes the employer withhold the taxes from their paychecks.
In addition to FICA withholdings on all tips, the Server must pay income tax on any tips charged on credit cards; in other words, charged tips are excluded from No Tax On Tips. Charged tips in the restaurant industry run over 80% of tips to servers.
As an employer, we must still compute income and FICA taxes on the total charged and cash tips a server receives and withhold it from their paychecks. The server may claim a deduction on their income tax returns for the cash tips they received. Good luck with that.
In practical terms, this whole No Tax On Tips is bull shit. Good work Republican Congress persons!
RE: The national debt. This is probably going to be re-structured down the road, a negotiated compromise with those holding those debt notes (e.g. China). Get domestic manufacturing going again, boost private sector employment, secure the border, kick out those here illegally, stop the entitlements fraud, and get spending under control. A few years of that, maybe more, then re-structure the debt.
Also, the fact that the bill was passed 51-50 with three Rs voting against it signifies that it was the most conservative bill that could pass in this session of Congress. Take the "W" people!
Now we can afford to buy the premium Trump “Victory 45‑47” line (with rose-gold or gold bottles featuring statuette stoppers). They're a steal at only at only $249 per bottle for either the men’s cologne or women’s perfume.
The bill passed regardless of the DemoRats and the Traitorpublicans. The Senate still welshed on the Suppressor act and the Short Act, reducing the tax to $0, but retaining the registration. There's a lot left to do, but this is a start.
It's a shame no DC elected officials (no, not one) knows and believes the Constitution, knows or enforces fiscal responsibility, and still provide programs outside the enumerated powers. DC is a cluster designed only to perpetuate the power of elected officials.
Yes, politicians have punted the football for decades on major issues, and neither party has dealt with them. Trump is the first to actually put forth a solution and try to settle some of these problems. But the ship of government is huge... he is just getting started.
And now, when they have a chance to cut illegal aliens off from Medicare and Medicaid, Democrats vote against it... Proving that they are just virtue signaling when they say that they are concerned about seniors, and poor people...
When the only people they're concerned with are illegal aliens, not US citizens. This fact is totally proven, by the way, they have spent tons of money to house illegals, yet they're Americans on the street, homeless. Disgusting.
Yep. As I understand the Medicaid issue, it is cutting waste, fraud, and abuse. If you are an able bodied citizen, you need to get a job or do some type of volunteer work to qualify. If you here illegally, no more free health care sorry.
Yeah, but all the Democrats voted NO to cut off illegal aliens from Medicare and Medicaid... And they were joined by many RINOS voting no, as well.
So, we're all going to be paying for illegals, Medicare and Medicaid... Nice!
Maybe someone will take it to the courts to decide .
The courts are not a viable route for challenging an outcome that benefits free-riders. The requirement for getting into court says that you must be “injured personally” by the law. The only people “injured” here are people who don’t like having their tax dollars spent unwisely. That type of injury is insufficient in the courts. If the free-riders had lost this one, they would have standing to sue, because they could point to a real loss. The. Federal courts don’t recognize broad “you’re wasting my tax dollars” types of injuries.
Able bodied people will have to work 20 hours a week or volunteer. My understanding is is that there will be no automatic increases in spending, not that there will be cuts.
It relies on stereotypes. The vast majority of Medicaid recipients are the working poor, and include a LOT of MAGA people
Vast majority yeah, but also 1.5 million illegal aliens. And when an illegal goes to the emergency room and gets free care, where does the clinic reimbursement come from? Yep, medicaid.
Why do you think undocumented workers get Medicare and Medicaid? They are not eligible.
Illegal aliens were not eligible to just cross the border, either, but 12-15 million crossed during Biden's term.
Hmm. Just a thought. Maybe follow the law, and enforce the law? 🤔
Nope, they're not eligible, but they're getting it! 1.4 million illegal aliens were found to be on Medicaid.
I want the citation for that one.
According to the Congressional Budget Office.
https://x.com/SenEricSchmitt/status/1940116541808468441/photo/1
The states receive Medicaid money for their programs. In California, it's called Medi-Cal, and the state proudly proclaims Medi-Cal coverage for everyone, regardless of citizenship status. Now California will have a good portion of the funding cut off and will have to decide whether or not it wishes to continue this practice (as the state is in a free-fall debt). This bill forces states to consider who and what is most important to fund. The states that insist they will cover illegal aliens will have to find their own funds--tax their own citizens into oblivion, not every taxpayer in the country.
As a two stamper I’m immensely disappointed that registration remains.
Yep, it doesn't surprise me that those squishy Rs and Marxist-democrats always try to keep us from arming ourselves as we see fit. I have my doubts as well that the worms in the house will fight that. Now that would surprise me. Assholes.
This bill has some laudable features, enhanced border security being a big one. But Trump joins almost all members of Congress - both parties - in kicking the fiscal can down the road. The national debt will only get bigger, and voters are being promised a free lunch rather than having to pay for what they want government to do. One out of five stars for Trump, zero stars for Democrats.
The other problem is that the media narrative for government spending, will call a frozen budget, a cut.
How that works is, if the budget was supposed to go up for a particular department by 10%, and it only gets increased by 5%, the dishonest media reports it as a 5% budget reduction! Complete and utter dishonesty.
It is like you and me getting a new job. We thought we were going to get the job that gave us a $20,000 raise, but the new job only gives us a $10,000 raise. Should we go around complaining that our wages got cut by $10,000?...
Totally bogus. The government does all kinds of things that, if a business did it, there would be prison time!
Taking the current tax extension out of the equation, there is quite a bit more expenditure reduction than tax cut. Not enough but it is a start.
No. It gives ALL of the savings to the Pentagon and billionaires. That's why it's a budget buster - and irresponsible. Which is why Rand Paul spoke out against it and why Elon is so pissed off. He risked his job at Tesla for nothing because Trump turned around and gave the savings away
Turn off CNN and PMSNBC.
NO, it doesn't give all the savings to the Pentagon and billionaires 😂
A couple of the big features are making tips non non-taxable.
Making overtime non-taxable.
So how many billionaires get paid time and a half for working overtime? 🤔
How many billionaires get tips? 🤔
Biden added OVER $1.5 trillion dollars to the budget. As part of his Inflation Reduction Act.
This budget cuts Federal spending by $1.5 trillion.
The reduction in tax rates means that overall there will be more economic activity and income, so just like happened in Reagan's term, he tax cut for the middle class and small business especially, will grow the economy, and total taxes will grow, even though the tax rate is reduced.
And less $s to pay down the debt or its interest for that matter.
So both of them have done it. Let's stop deflecting the responsibility from Trump> Biden is out of office
What? Trump didn't increase spending by over $1.5 trillion a year-- Biden did.
The Inflation Reduction Act (NOT) resulted in inflation going up to over 9%, in the summer of 2022. That's what happens when you print money and inject it into the economy that way.
Tend to agree. I haven't read 900 pages of congress critter verbiage. But from what I've gathered, not sure I'm 100% behind this BBB. And the ongoing 'feud' with Musk. I'm wondering, is this just a precursor, teaser even, to something Trump has waiting in the wings to ride on top of the BBB?
It’s big, but it ain’t exactly beautiful.
Democrats are relentlessly spreading misinformation about efforts to preserve & protect Medicaid.
The facts aren't on their side.
Nobody is cutting Medicaid.
We're making it sustainable for those it was originally intended for.
Wrong - it's being cut for millions of working people.
No it’s not.
My heart breaks for Elon. He learned the hard way that politicians use one to the fullest then kick one to the curb. Unless, of course, one is willing to join politicians in corruption.
What a sad world we are living in.
Elon will be just fine. He gets plenty of government money but does not love that others want the same. He'll live.
Elon said many a time that he does NOT need subsidies. And I believe him. You know why? Because I see how he can be successful without subsidies.
Here is what’s WRONG. When a company whose planes’ doors and wheels fall off while in flight, which overruns government given projects by billions of dollars while missing deadlines by years with no end in sight is getting another Pentagon project worth more billions and Musk’s StarX, which does on a fly what the other company, despite being paid a fortune, fails to do, is left in the dust.
You are correct, Elon will live. It’s We The People are getting screwed once again and YOU keep defending those who are screwing us. 🤯🤬
Can you explain how you find your “logic” acceptable?
I have no ill will towards Elon. If I were personally in charge of the budget, the government would go back to pre-FDR. They are too big and were never meant to have their tendrils in every single part of our lives. They should concern themselves with their Constitutional role, which is to protect and defend our land and our civil liberties and that's it. My logic? We don't live in the world I want. Unfortunately, in order to do 2 things that are very important to me, the lawmakers have to make compromises. Those 2 things? 1. If we did it my way, how many votes do you think I'd get in the next election? Enough to keep it away from the people who believe they can just print a trillion dollar coin? Nope. I'd have to be willing to hand it over to a party who knows no bounds on spending which causes inflation and they don't even try to figure out a way to earn the money back. They bring in more people so the pie can be split even more and everyone can stay barely surviving without power to do anything about it. 2. I want 10,000 people a day deported. How am I going to get that if there aren't enough resources to make even half that possible? I'm not. So, in order to get what I want, which is keeping Democrats in their current form out of office and to deport as many people as possible, I have to compromise with enough people who have different goals. We don't have 60 votes in the Senate. So my logic is having to Unfortunately deal with reality.
You mean let corrupt continue stilling from We The People? That's YOUR reality?
Do you have some power I'm unaware of that can stop them? They all steal. I've been voting my entire life and everything just gets worse and worse. I've voted for Democrats and Republicans and Independents. As far as I can tell, none of them have made life better. You seem to think I can zap them out of existence. I'm sorry to say I don't have that power.
No, I don't (yet). Still, why attack a few brave souls who attempt to affect change?
Elon is a perennial winner. Instead of attacking him, let him attempt, HELP him
What Elon doesn't understand and I commend him for the content of his criticism, but he doesn't understand that passing bills in Congress is a lot like making sausage. It's not very pretty.
So, the reality is, when you only have a simple majority, they're always going to be those who ask for special "perks" so that they vote for the bill.
That is how we got into this mess, in the first place.
Yes, I too don’t understand. When the corrupt are asking for special perks. EXPOSE them and their perks. The ONLY time this does not work when you are corrupt and want perks too, right?
I recall how Democrats after losing their majority in Congress found a way to live WITHOUT a budget for how long, 4(?) years, or was it 6(?)?
How quickly we forget the masterclass of the Harry Reid.
We are on the pass to $50 trln. NO healthy growth in economy will lead us out of this cancer. Treating a cancer with another cancer is a brilliant idea worth a Nobel Prize.
So, is it Elon who does not understand, or is it We The People being screwed one time over.
Remember, screw me once, shame on you, screw me again, and again, …, and again … when will WE learn?
What, Elon was the traitor. Who needs someone who pretends to be your friends and then does a complete stab in the back? That is exactly what Elon did.
And well Elon sez if this bill passes, he will start a new party, The American Party.
Yeahhh, right Elon. We been there, done that with another billionaire, RossPerot...back when you were only 20 and still in So.Africa. That's how we got the Clintons.
If a 2nd conservative party is created, the DEMS will be re-engergized and rule the US forever.
I love Elon's passion, but I think he's politically naive'.
Through the primary system, the Demo and Repo Parties might as well be official. Fantasizing about third parties is a complete waste of time.
I forgot to mention that the two-party system actually worked pretty well in 2016. When the Demos got too elitist, leaving working-class Whites without any party to speak for them, the Repos got populist. Horrors!
Elon does NOT want a Conservative party. He wants a Party of Unity, which is, just like Festivus, for the rest of us 😁
Comparison could be drawn with Israeli Kadima.
I think it’s a good idea. There gotta be a way to, if not stop completely, at least temporarily break the corruption status quo.
I have much stronger words than that.
Who knows... Elon was brought in to DOGE his way to uge savings, which are claimed to be $160–190 billion though independent audits indicate substantial overestimation and high implementation costs vs. the megabill: $4.5 trillion in tax cuts, $5 trillion debt ceiling increase, adds $3.3 trillion to deficits over a decade. Maybe Elon figured his contributions were not beloved sufficiently and his Tesla stock is down 12% while the Dow is up 5% in the past month, so maybe he's feeling grumpy... and poor.
Somehow I don’t think it was that simple.
He risked his reputation and Tesla to do slash and burn only to see Trump squander the savings - he then became part if Trump's grift. He has a right to be pissed off
I think you got it precisely backwards. But, maybe I misunderstand you. Do tell more details what you mean
I wonder if it's all part of a coordinated plan to get Tesla back in the good graces of progressives.
Jabster,
Yes, quote possibly!
Musk’s feud with Trump was always an act to delude the rubes. It never had a single real moment and was entirely orchestrated by the White House to distract from all of Trump’s idiocies, failures, and evil. Musk knows what he’s doing is fake as does Trump.
Hahahaha How many MAN were able to build 5 unicorns without a single failure? But in the mind of Karen, -what an appropriate name!! ❤️❤️❤️ -, Musk is a fool.
Trump, in her single-cell-brain is a failure, idiot, and evil.
Know NOTHING foul-mouthed Karen MUST be a femiNAZI, leftist in a word.
It's funny how many Democrats, really are busybody Karens...In this case, literally.
If Republicans don't like something, they don't partake in it. They allow people to make their own decisions.
If Democrats don't like something, they try to outlaw it for everybody else. (Obviously NOT including murdering your unborn baby, up to the day of birth, and celebrating it.)
Republicans are in favor of enforcing laws against crime...
Democrats want to force all their woke garbage down everyone's throat. People got really tired of that, hence our election results last November.
I suppose that's the yin and yang of life. On one hand, your are the world's richest man (yeah!) and on the other, you're kicked to the curb by the president of the world's largest economy that you help get elected (boo hoo!).
Elon musk started that fight...
Trust me. When you have a billionaire, and you have the President of the United States in the same room, yeah you're dealing with some egos. Totally slamming somebody in public like Elon did is not the best way to air out your grievances.
Slamming somebody in public, like how Trump does almost daily, in writing, on his "Truth" Social account, when someone is not suitably loyal?
It is entertaining though - I love the smell of maga infighting in the morning as old Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore useds to say.
Seriously? Elon was the epitome of a "fair weather friend" and I am disappointed. He fooled Trump too. It's a "fool me once, shame on you" situation in my opinion. Do we need now a third party? Hell, no.
I repeat myself: “ I think you got it precisely backwards. But, maybe I misunderstand you.
Do tell more details what you mean”
You keep repeating FALSE assertions WITHOUT providing evidence or explaining.
Either substantiate your FALSE on their face assertions or stop pushing your drivel, VICKI
Who named you the comment police and expert? I said what I said, either like it or not but stop with your comments now. And stop "repeating yourself" thank you.
Hahahahaha "Who named you the comment police and expert? I said what I said, either like it or not but stop with your comments now."
Read this 3 times/day before every meal and follow YOUR OWN orders :D
Thank you for admitting that you have ZERO evidence to back YOUR FALSE assertions.
Glad you enjoyed the lesson....keep it close. You'll need it. I don't have to prove anything to the likes of you...a sad and pathetic narcissist. Keep humiliating your lack of character.
Elon is a fool and always was.
.... and who are this judge? Present your credentials, the SMART one
Nope.
Hahahaha 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡😘
Too much $$$ for war in other countries. The elites benefit as our country goes further into debt. Stop all $$$ support for Ukraine and Israel!!!!
It's a sham. We are being totally played by the neofascist oligarchy!
Hahahaha the Neofascist Ogliarchy...
Bernie Sanders and AOC taught all you eager-to-protest Democrats some new "big words..."
Neofascist Oligarchy!! This new stupid catchphrase is another thing thrown out for the fools to chase after like obedient dogs. Slobbering and drooling over whatever they can sink their jaws into. It's so predictable it's pitiful.
Sadly, like all the other big... bills, we and the actual agencies will need to read the bill to find out what's in the bill. Total Horse biscuits. If the Republican kept the Medicare changes to largely denial to illegals, it may help force self deportation.
They get free quality health care from wence they came?
Illegals are not eligible unless they are using a stolen SS number!
Ahhh.... BINGO! You guessed what is going on!
1.4 illegal aliens are receiving Medicaid, although ineligible for it.
The Democrats spent 16 hours yesterday reading it aloud on the house floor (delay tactic) .... I believe C-Span covered it all....... Now you could've just watched it there.
This is the giant scam of giant bills. I still remember Pres. Reagan showing the American People the giant bill with the cranberry bog research funding. Sadly Reagan also pushed for and got private "scientific studies" funded by corporations, which forever ruined the National Academy of Sciences and trust in science. My point is all bills should be completely limited by moratorium, allow only existing levels of funding or less in smaller bill packages with every expense having first been approved by budget calculation and a DOGE like process to show all corrupt spending.
The Congress and nations Bureaucracies are elephant sized lemmings running towards the cliffs edge and driving us all along with it.
Jeffrey - you should run for Congress and get these things done!
Lol, we need to initiate term limits, without pentions, and make insider trading and taking any form of kickback a crime punishable by immediate forfeiture of their position and all salary earned from the date of the act... then if Im alive and nobody better is running, which means we're in trouble, then I would run.
It's no excuse, but as long as the likes of Murkowski, Collins, Tillis, Cassidy, Banks, Capito-Moore, Cornyn, Curtis, McConnell, Paul, Rounds, Young, et al. – all undocumented Democrats, are in office, they are a threat to completely derail Trump's efforts to effect the America First agenda.
The preservation of Medicaid fraud and waste is problematic, to be sure, but there are still too many congressional Republicans in both chambers either in on the grift, or too afraid of the lies that are told by the synchronised legacy corporate media about people being denied services. I don't see why that can't be achieved by amending eligibility requirements at the agency level.
In any event, it's the preservation and the protection of the tax cuts that most matter. As McConnell, Tillis, and hopefully Collins, Cassidy, and maybe even Paul exit and are replaced with MAGA, America First folks, that on which compromise had to be made can be revisited.
Welcome to Politics.
TAW!
Trump Always Wins!
A C&C reader?
Of course
AWAL.............and we always lose.............
You might, we don't.
We win with Trump!
Who's we Kemosabe and what have you really won? It certainly isn't me, "we" is the USA. MAGA means Miriam Adelsen Governs America. You should become more informed.
Bless your heart!
Not one single Trumper will care that their kids die from preventable illnesses and lack of hospital treatment, because no Trumper cares about their kids. All MAGAts ever wanted was to make sure that only straight white males ever got any benefits out of life and they will celebrate living in refrigerator boxes and cooking pigeons on curtain rods just so long as all the Blacks, gays, women who aren’t pathetic doormats, and anyone who can read without moving their mouths doesn’t have a box, a curtain rod, or a sparrow.
And quit pretending that you give one shit about anyone on Medicaid. If you cared about the poor you would never, ever be a MAGAt.
This is ridiculous.
She's makes good points but in a Sasha click bate kinda way and you fell for it! How you doing? BTW, I like you. Yuo got spunk, energy and make good points!
What is the error in my comment? Trumpers want a world where straight white males get everything they want and everyone else has to die or suffer.
You support a party that thinks children should be allowed to be castrated, mutilated, on behalf of a psychological disorder. You support a party that thinks abortion at anytime during a pregnancy is acceptable, including up to the ninth month. You support a party that allowed childern to be trafficked across a wide open border. Approximately 200,000 childern were unaccounted for under Biden/Harris. Where are they? Sold, sodomized, tossed out like trash? You support a party that thinks children should have access to gay porn in elementary schools. You support a party of pedophiles and predators and you have the fucking nerve to call Trump supporters uncaring. Your party doesn't give a shit about anyone let alone childern. Your mouth breathing stupidity is exact why the Democrat party is so widely despised. I've yet to read any comment from you remotely connected to reality. Does that explain the errors in your obscene comment?
Her comments are truly deranged ...
It's funny, how the party that makes it legal to kill babies a day before their due date, the party that forces girls to compete in sports and get undressed in front of males, the party that forces children to get mutilating surgeries because they're supposedly trans...
The party that walks around with Hamas flags Mexican flags and attacks ICE agents...
They call MAGA Nazis.
This Democrat party is the closest we've ever had to Nazis in this country! And Antifa and BLM are their brownshirts.
And now they've nominated a communist for the mayor of New York City...
They're well on their way to becoming highly irrelevant. Anybody with any amount of sanity, cannot embrace, let alone accept, all the woke crap that they embrace
These people are anti-human, anti-American, anti-facts, anti-science. The angry, self-loathing, man-hating shrews are relentless in spreading their chronic dissatisfaction far and wide. Outside their blue enclaves, these people would be red flagged for metal issues.
You describe MAGAts perfectly here. EVERYTHING you say about Democrats is pure projection of your own wretched vile selves.
How does any of that refute my true statement that you want a world run by and exclusively for the benefit of straight white males where no one but straight white males have any rights at all?
LMAO...seems like you have a problem, when everyone is treated equally.
No special perks for everybody EXCEPT white males, kinda gets under your skin, huh?
Exactly! I didn't actually believe that was true until I saw the comments about this bill and why people support it. It's all white men's revenge. It's sad and really really cruel
https://tenor.com/view/no-nooo-noooo-omg-omg-no-gif-12379687
https://tenor.com/view/trigger-triggered-liberal-tears-liberaltriggered-gif-18607404
They do deeply care about their kids, but as long as they are able to live in a 1950s leave it to beaver heaven!
Umm, wipe your mouth. You're drooling / spitting all over.
Boh, oh boy... You people on the Left can sure rant...
Angry angry angry...
Holy fuck.
The more you Dems double down on your woke insanity, the more moderate and old-school liberal Dems you will lose. Which will result in even a larger percentage of Democrats being the angry, hate everybody radicals, like you...the "throw-the-food-at-the-wall" in the nursing home type of person.
Screaming at the world, and calling people names, or shouting at full volume...doesn't win any converts.
It just makes people realize that you're totally batshit crazy.
And yeah, now the Democrats are concerned that men don't want to vote for them... Geez, umm maybe it's because they've hated on men for years and years. Only males that are going to stick around your party are the soy boys.
P.S. Yeah. Loving your kids doesn't include sucking them into a sink...
That seems to be a badge of honor among angry white feminine liberals.
Totally unhinged.
And still no effort to make a positive case for Trump.
Because there isn’t one. NOTHING he does benefits anyone Trump doesn’t see whrn he looks in thr mirror. You’re just a bigot who wants to see people better than you suffer. Like all MAGAts.
Very ignorant comment
Bullshit. No Trumper has never made an positive case for why anyone should support him. He himself has never tried to appeal to anyone but his base of stupid cultists. His ONLY platform is ‘Billionaires need more money’ and ‘Democrats are icky girls.’ Can you name one single solitary actual policy of his that isn’t utterly catastrophic?
Yes, he is making good on siphoning off even more pieces of the pie for the 1+% and then the even more rarefied billionaire group and the even more rarefied mulitbillionare group and then his group which includes just 1 cult leader - a multibillionaire, 2X president of the United States whose wives have all been gold digging trophies. He shouldn't shit post on Truth Social that folks are bullying him because he can legit claim the above. But I kinda don't blame him. He's like, look, I'm living the aspirational dream that really isn't attainable, but yet I am. And I'm silly to boot!
Hey Karen...
How about no taxes on tips?
How about no taxes on overtime?
Those are pretty good things for most people.
How about shutting the border to the Biden/Harris tsunami of illegals? Shutting down the green energy boondoggle that seemed to lack the capacity to realize that EVs count on fossil fuels. Permanent tax cuts that benefit the middle class. Foreign policies that attempt resolution instead creating more problems because of a lack of competency that allowed the conflict in the first place. Promoting equal trade instead of allowing lopsided trade deals that benefit everyone else.
1. So long as the tipped minimum wage exists, allowing employers to pay tipped employees about half the regular minimum wage, ‘no taxes on tips’ is completely empty. Tipped employees will never make enough money to have to pay taxes in the first place.
2. Again, this is meaningless because Trump had loosened to useless the laws regulating who can get overtime. Employers can juggle schedules so that an employee has to work 90 hours for three weeks and no hours the fourth, thus never actually accruing ‘overtime’ for the month and getting NO extra pay.
This is typical Trumper. A slogan with no substance behind it. Much better policy would be to let the billionaire tax breaks expire, eliminate the ‘tipped’ exception to minimum wage laws, and really enforce overtime laws.
You clearly don't know anyone that makes a living from tips. It's illegal to not pay tax on tips. Trump has nothing to do with overtime as the employer controls employment, scheduling and earned wage. Again, a vacuous argument that defaults to "billionaires" beacuse actually understanding what you're talking about is too much work.
And you know nothing about the law or its enforcement, or my argument.
Tips: again, the REAL problem is that it’s legal to pay a much lower minimum wage to anyone who gets tips. Yes, they have to pay taxes on the tips, but very few of them will make a high enough yearly wage to owe federal taxes at all. This is mostly a benefit to employers who can still underpay waiters but also be freed from some paperwork. The alleged ‘beneficiaries’ won’t see one more dime but the owners sure will.
Overtime: federal law and rules define what, exactly, ‘overtime’ means. Employers CONSTANTLY cheat by defining everyone on staff as a ‘manager’ or by, again, scheduling employees so that they work exactly the right number of hours over a month, but done in a way that actually requires the employee to work two or three insanely excessive weeks so that they can’t get any real rest or manage life stuff. Further, Trump won’t enforce even the absurdly lax standards he will impose, so employers will get away with abusing their employees who have no recourse to any help.
Trump was always a boss, never a grunt, so his sympathies are ONLY with the Bosses. He has no desire to make life any better for anyone other than himself.
I guess for you, your Trump hatred is the only thing that brings you fulfillment in an otherwise joyless existence. Wallowing in the seething rage of profound ignorance must be so excruciating for you that you feel the need to share it so that everyone here can witness firsthand the lunatic ravings of someone in the throws of a mental collapse.
Can you say, "triggered?"
I've got a picture in my head. Now, of what she is like. Has to be one of these women screaming to the sky as loud as they can... Refusing to talk to anybody. Just screaming as loud as they can.
It's a great way to convince people that you're right and you know what you're talking about 😂😂
Really, what needs to be done...
Bring back asylums!
Screaming like an idiot! Wtf? These people have been spewing out these same old boring tropes for the last eight years! We've heard it all before! And they're still attempting to retread the same old shit pretending it isn't the same old shit.
So tell me what things he’s going to do that benefit me? Show me details?
Well, since you love WOKE Leftist Progressive bullshit, which you obviously DO, you're not going to be happy with him.
He is reversing all that batshit craziness.
Boys won't be able to pull out their dong in the girls locker room when your daughter is dressing for her track meet.
Oh, you don't have any kids?
Haha, I'm not surprised.
Is this Rosie O'Donnell, in disguise? 🤔
They are the meanest hearted people I have ever seen. I hope that meanness comes back on them.
We’re not the ones building Alligator Auschwitz or forcing ten year olds to carry their rapists’ babies so Jeff Bezos can buy his 27th house.
Let everyone know when your handmaiden wet dream comes to be. Alligator Auschwitz is so profoundly stupid...
Adriana Smith certainly got to experience Gilead: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adriana_Smith_pregnancy_case
Then again, she was Black so she doesn’t matter to you at all. She’s like every other woman in your world — ONLY worth being mindless incubators for the actual people: males. Women in TrumperWorld are nothing but sex toys and baby factories.
You just can't double down hard enough on your moronacy. First of all, her race is irrelevant. This woman was brain-dead. Why would she need an abortion? I'm sure the family will find comfort in her son being born and raised in a family that will love him as they loved their daughter. Your argument is so stunning in its perversion. Shocking!
Her family wanted her removed from life support. Also, her family probably didn’t want millions of dollars in medical debt that they’re now stuck with and which no antiabortion person will ever contribute one single dime to alleviate.
Unfortunately, Congress did a bait and switch on the “No Tax On Tips”. According to Grok, the employee and employer must still pay FICA taxes on all tips: in the restaurant industry, we must compute the percentage of charged tips a server receives, and thin apply that percentage to the server’s sales. In this manner, the IRS captures any cash tips the server may receive and makes the employer withhold the taxes from their paychecks.
In addition to FICA withholdings on all tips, the Server must pay income tax on any tips charged on credit cards; in other words, charged tips are excluded from No Tax On Tips. Charged tips in the restaurant industry run over 80% of tips to servers.
As an employer, we must still compute income and FICA taxes on the total charged and cash tips a server receives and withhold it from their paychecks. The server may claim a deduction on their income tax returns for the cash tips they received. Good luck with that.
In practical terms, this whole No Tax On Tips is bull shit. Good work Republican Congress persons!
It's gonna be okay - The FICA you pay contributes to the SS you're gonna want to collect at age 65! Bonus!
Yeah except SS is supposed to run out within 20 years…
WATCH THE MOMENT: Senate passes Big Beautiful Bill
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saF7cqubDSU
BTW In case you were wondering Chuck is not happy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMtg4rmsfI8
I am so old that I can remember LBJ. There must be someone that can remember FDR.
Congratulations on being picked up by the NY Post today.
RE: The national debt. This is probably going to be re-structured down the road, a negotiated compromise with those holding those debt notes (e.g. China). Get domestic manufacturing going again, boost private sector employment, secure the border, kick out those here illegally, stop the entitlements fraud, and get spending under control. A few years of that, maybe more, then re-structure the debt.
Also, the fact that the bill was passed 51-50 with three Rs voting against it signifies that it was the most conservative bill that could pass in this session of Congress. Take the "W" people!
Now we can afford to buy the premium Trump “Victory 45‑47” line (with rose-gold or gold bottles featuring statuette stoppers). They're a steal at only at only $249 per bottle for either the men’s cologne or women’s perfume.