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Tuesday, July 01, 2025

The revised package now heads back to the House, where Republican leaders are hoping to approve it and send it to Trump before a self-imposed July 4 deadline. But it faces hurdles.

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Senate Republicans have betrayed the American people.

When people start losing their Medicaid When people start losing their jobs When electric bills go up When health care premiums go up When kids and parents lose SNAP funding

The American people will remember this vote.[image or embed]

-- Chuck Schumer (@schumer.senate.gov) Jul 1, 2025 at 2:32 PM

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The country is fcnked

#1 | Posted by hamburglar at 2025-07-01 04:31 PM | Reply

I have to admit that increasing the Debt by something like 5 trillion dollars AND giving billionaires big tax cuts on the backs of the poor and the middle class (who will now pay more for their parents and children's needs, if they can)... is something wise Trumpers figured out as being in their own best self-interests and the interests of others and of the Country way before I did.

Congrats!

#2 | Posted by Corky at 2025-07-01 04:34 PM | Reply

Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is one to talk. He capitulated on the GOP bill in March to ensure US military aid continued uninterrupted to Israel. Voila! The GOP bill passed and the so-called "ceasefire" ended, letting the IDF resume its ethnic cleansing in the Gaza Strip. Who do the heck does AIPAC-mired Chuck Schumer think he is fooling pretending to be on the side of hardworking, peace-loving Americans?

Link: thehill.com

#3 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-07-01 04:41 PM | Reply

Gerrymandering for the win (and our loss). ---- you binary political parties.

#4 | Posted by Brennnn at 2025-07-01 04:45 PM | Reply

As long as politicians in Gov owe more to their corporate donors than they do to the constituents of their Districts.... the beatings are going to continue.

Public financing of Elections, by corporations and the media in a democratic way; representing all voters, is still the single biggest fix that America needs. And we need it now.

#5 | Posted by Corky at 2025-07-01 04:47 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Next year is going to be a disaster.

Donald and the GOP will more than toy with election interference.

#6 | Posted by Zed at 2025-07-01 04:53 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

The Executive Order against holding elections while the US is being invaded by criminal thugs from Botswana is hot off the presses!

#7 | Posted by Corky at 2025-07-01 05:06 PM | Reply

election interference.
#6 | Posted by Zed

I think the results are already in. The campaigns and subsequent elections will simply be for show and transference of bribes.

#8 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2025-07-01 05:26 PM | Reply

The other shoe to drop will be the US credit rating and capital flight from the USA to more stable countries. Thoughts and prayers for the US economy. At least like half a dozen trans athletes can't compete in sports now. Fair trade.

#9 | Posted by dibblda at 2025-07-01 05:51 PM | Reply

Morning Consult (February 2025)
x.com

... Trump won Medicaid recipients in 2024. 49% of beneficiaries voted for him over 47% who voted for Kamala Harris.

By comparison, our data from 2021 shows Biden won the group by 19 percentage points in 2020. ...



#10 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-01 05:52 PM | Reply

@#6 ... Next year is going to be a disaster. ...

Is there a delay of some (most?) cuts until 2027, i.e., after the mid-terms?

#11 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-01 05:53 PM | Reply

I remember Harris' tie-breaking vote pushed through the [not really] Inflation Reduction Act]. the [supposed] American Rescue Plan.

#12 | Posted by MSgt at 2025-07-01 05:55 PM | Reply

The winning never stops MAGA! Post all your tears so we can have a laugh.

#13 | Posted by fortfisher at 2025-07-01 05:55 PM | Reply

From the cited sub-summary ...

... The American people will remember this vote. ...

Why? Because Democrats are so great at messaging?


#14 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-01 05:55 PM | Reply

Vance Says It Doesn't Matter How Many People Lose Medicaid in Budget
newrepublic.com

... JD Vance is being slammed after a twisted post on the costs of Republicans' budget bill.

Vice President JD Vance is being lambasted for dismissing social safety net rollbacks under the Trump tax bill currently making its way through Congress.

On Monday night, Vance attempted to rally support for the bill in a post on X, writing, "Everything else"the CBO score [the Congressional Budget Office cost estimate], the proper baseline, the minutiae of the Medicaid policy"is immaterial compared to the ICE money and immigration enforcement provisions."

Many were rubbed the wrong way by Vance's claim that the bill's worrisome qualities are of little consequence compared to its staggering expansion of federal immigration enforcement (which a majority of Americans already believe has "gone too far" in carrying out Trump's deportation agenda).

Particularly odious was the suggestion that "the minutiae of the Medicaid policy," among other all-but-trivial concerns, is "immaterial." After all, in delivering "the most dramatic reductions in safety net spending in modern U.S. history," per The Washington Post, the bill could cause 17 million people to lose their health insurance and, according to some estimates, lead to tens of thousands of preventable deaths each year. It is also projected to add trillions to the deficit.

"If Republicans wanted to pass a big ICE funding bill they could," posted journalist Matthew Yglesias on X. "What they wrote is a bill that has trillions and trillions and trillions of dollars of regressive tax cuts partially offset by cuts in programs for poor Americans but that also massively increases debt." ...


#15 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-01 06:00 PM | Reply

@#12 ... I remember Harris' tie-breaking vote pushed through the [not really] Inflation Reduction Act]. ...

Did that tie-breaking vote give billions to the wealthy while depriving lower-income Americans of needed healthcare?

Or is your comment more of a false-equivalency comparison?


#16 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-01 06:03 PM | Reply

Republicans can never again claim to be fiscally responsible. They are super-charging the deficit.

#17 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2025-07-01 06:05 PM | Reply

@#17 ... They are super-charging the deficit. ...

And, in doing so, making it more difficult for the US to borrow, which leads to higher interest rates.

Yet Pres Trump has been badgering Chmn Powell to lower interest rates when it it seems to be his tax bill that is causing those interest rates to rise.


#18 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-01 06:12 PM | Reply

"Trae Crowder Rant - Senate Passes Trump's (Very Stupidly Named) Big Beautiful Bill

Well the BBB inches ever closer to being enshrined as law...and hey, at least it's one of the worst pieces of legislation (and most blatant cash grabs) any of us have ever seen. So that's nice."

www.youtube.com

#19 | Posted by Corky at 2025-07-01 06:13 PM | Reply

"Now, people ask me all the time how we got four surplus budgets in a row. What new ideas did we bring to Washington? I always give a one-word answer: Arithmetic."

Former President Bill Clinton

#20 | Posted by SomebodyElse at 2025-07-01 06:35 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

From another thread ( drudge.com )...

Johnson faces new GOP revolt on Trump's "big, beautiful bill"
www.axios.com

... House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is facing an explosion of internal anger among his members over the Senate's changes to President Trump's "big, beautiful bill."

Why it matters: The speaker has just days to pass the bill before Republicans' self-imposed July 4 deadline -- which will require flipping dozens of "no" votes and overcoming numerous procedural hurdles.

- - - "We knew the Senate would amend the House product. I encouraged them to amend it as lightly as possible. They went a little further than than many of us would have preferred," Johnson told reporters on Tuesday.

What they're saying: "Our bill has been completely changed ... It's a non-starter," Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) bemoaned to reporters on Tuesday,

- - - Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) said in a post on social media that he will introduce an amendment to the Senate bill that would delete all its text and replace it with the version passed by the House in May.

- - - One House Republican, speaking on the condition of anonymity, told Axios there are "well over 20" GOP lawmakers threatening to vote against the bill.

State of play: The Senate voted 51-50 to pass their own version of the bill on Tuesday, with Vice President Vance serving as the tiebreaker. ...


#21 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-01 06:42 PM | Reply

"Thoughts and prayers for the US economy. At least like half a dozen trans athletes can't compete in sports now. Fair trade."

Was dying on that hill worth it? The Republicans are frakking over the economy again, but hey at least some people can be proud of themselves for supporting things that helped get them into power.

"Republicans can never again claim to be fiscally responsible."

People were saying that even years before the 2008 meltdown, but it hasn't stopped them from making that claim. The public have very short memories.

#22 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-07-01 07:02 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Trump wins and Democrats lose as usual.

Honestly when I think of a Democrat I always think of the dangerous CARB Compliant 1, 2, 5 gal gas cans that have never done anything that improved their function or reduced emmisions. The spouts leak and are difficult to do anything except leak and become a hazard to all users. It is a basic function that Democrat losers made worse.

But Democrats will force you to use them as they are the fools that live by politics alone but are incapable of actual competence. I wish Trump would take every one of those stupid Democrat CARB reg gas cans and burn them.

#23 | Posted by Robson at 2025-07-01 07:23 PM | Reply

Trump wins and Democrats Americans lose, as usual.

How does Trump winning make any of you happy?

He gonna share it with you?

Not unless you're already a billionaire.

#24 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-07-01 07:28 PM | Reply

"CARB Compliant 1, 2, 5 gal gas cans"

If you smell gas when you step into your garage, you need better gas cans.

#25 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-01 07:34 PM | Reply

"Was dying on that hill worth it?"

You tell us.
What about BBB is worth it to you?

#26 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-01 07:35 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

@#23 ... Trump wins and Democrats lose as usual. ...

Seriously, when the GOP controls the Oval Office and both Houses of Congress, did you really expect a different outcome?


An outcome that didn't give the wealthy massive tax cuts while slashing the healthcare for lower income Americans?

Did you really expect a different outcome with the GOP in control?

Or is the GOP all and only about winning?

So, maybe, instead of gloating about that winning aspect, maybe try to discuss how this bill affects Americans?


#27 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-01 07:37 PM | Reply

Congratulations, MAGAdiots! You got what you wanted!

#28 | Posted by chuffy at 2025-07-01 07:49 PM | Reply

FDT wins and Democrats lose as usual.
ROBTROLL

What did FDT win, actually? Tell us.

#29 | Posted by chuffy at 2025-07-01 07:50 PM | Reply

All this doom and gloom predictions and none of it has happened.

The only thing that has happened is Trump is fulfilling his campaign promises.

If this continues, I dont think the mid terms is going to go the way yall progressives think it is.

#30 | Posted by boaz at 2025-07-01 07:57 PM | Reply

@#30 ... All this doom and gloom predictions and none of it has happened. ...

Well, yeah, because the bill has not yet gone into effect.

Duh.

Your alias cannot understand that simple fact?

Wow.

#31 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-01 08:08 PM | Reply

"All this doom and gloom predictions and none of it has happened."

No, dumbass.

It just hasn't happened to you.

If you were doing anything useful with your life, like cancer research, you would already be affected by the cuts.

#32 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-01 08:20 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

The GOP cowards all fall in line for the flimflam man, who throws them a circus.

The Democrat cowards stand on the sidelines and grind their teeth, powerless, afraid to draw attention.

The flimflam man smiles, fires up another stogie and audibly loads his diaper. A half-dozen Republican minions rush in with fresh replacements, begging to be given the task of changing him.

#33 | Posted by cbob at 2025-07-01 08:33 PM | Reply

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