Watch live: House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries' "magic minute" speech has been going for more than five hours as Democrats fight to delay passage of Republicans' megabill.
People will die because of the all-out Republican assault on healthcare in America.
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-- Hakeem Jeffries (@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social) Jul 3, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Republican challenge: Big Beautiful Bill' has big costs, provides few new benefits
www.csmonitor.com
... Republican lawmakers are on the cusp of handing President Donald Trump a major legislative victory by passing his entire congressional agenda in one fell swoop. But many Americans will face more costs than tangible new benefits from the sprawling tax and immigration enforcement bill that adds trillions to the national debt.
The Senate on Tuesday passed its version of the "Big, Beautiful Bill" by the barest of majorities " 51 to 50 " after more than 26 hours of debate and amendments. House Republicans are rushing to try to pass the bill into law this week before a July 4th deadline set by the president, though a handful of House GOP critics make that prospect less than certain.
The bill's most expensive component is an extension of the individual tax cuts that Mr. Trump and congressional Republicans passed into law during his first term and which are set to soon expire. ...
But as Republicans now move to make those lower rates permanent, it won't actually feel any different to taxpayers. And many of the bill's spending cuts -- such as to Medicaid and food stamps -- will impact their voters directly.
Even with the cuts to government programs, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates that the just-passed Senate bill will add a net $3.4 trillion to the national debt over the next decade.
What the bill does add in new, tangible benefits for Americans is limited. ...
The truth is somewhere in between. The true number of outright lazy bastards is probably short of 17 million. But it's not zero either.
It's damn close to zero.
64% of adult Medicaid enrollees are already working.
12% of adults are caregiving, taking care of elderly parents, children with disabilities, etc.
10% are not working due to illness or disability.
7% are not working because they are attending school.
8% are not working due to other reasons like retirement or inability to find work.
www.kff.org
Kentucky put in a work requirement for Medicaid. It cost them $280 million. It failed miserably. There just aren't that many people on Medicaid that are 'cheating" the system. There just isn't that much "waste fraud abuse" going on. This abomination of a bill allocated $75 million for the entire United States for the work-requirement system. That's a quarter of what one state spent trying to make this work. (The $280M and $75M numbers are from memory, but are easy enough to check)
Correction:
If implemented (as passed) it would cost KY and estimated $270 million to implement: healthlaw.org
KY's previous attempt (stopped by a judge) cost $99.5 million.
www.lpm.org
www.vox.com
Think that 17 million jobs are available?
Yes.
#58 | Posted by eberly
You're a fat, lazy asshole, Eberly.
Job Openings and Labor Turnover Summary
For release 10:00 a.m. (ET) Tuesday, July 1, 2025 USDL-25-1087
Technical information: (202) 691-5870 JoltsInfo@bls.gov www.bls.gov/jlt
Media contact: (202) 691-5902 PressOffice@bls.gov
JOB OPENINGS AND LABOR TURNOVER -- MAY 2025
The number of job openings was little changed at 7.8 million in May, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
reported today Over the month, both hires and total separations were little changed at 5.5 million and
5.2 million, respectively. Within separations, quits (3.3 million) and layoffs and discharges (1.6 million)
changed little.
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