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BREAKING: The House passes Trump's domestic policy bill after GOP leaders win over holdouts. It next goes to the Senate.

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-- CNN (@cnn.com) May 22, 2025 at 6:59 AM

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"Even with the cuts, the measure is expected to cost $3.8tn over the next 10 years, according to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office. Its passage in the House comes less than a week after credit ratings agency Moody's stripped the US of its top-notch triple-A rating and warned of its large national debt and federal budget deficit.

House Democratic leaders have decried the bill as a "tax scam" that "is deeply unpopular, which is why Republicans made every effort to advance it during the dead of night".

"This fight is just beginning, and House Democrats will continue to use every tool at our disposal to ensure that the GOP Tax Scam is buried deep in the ground, never to rise again," the minority leader, Hakeem Jeffries, the whip, Katherine Clark, and the caucus chair, Pete Aguilar, said."

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Musk's 300+ billion dollar investment in Trump is paying off... he'll get that back in tax cuts financed by the poor and middle class this year alone.

Speaker Mikey gave praises for the victory to God, who immediately threw up.

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2025-05-22 01:36 PM | Reply

Alright, buckle up buttercup, because we're diving headfirst into the political mosh pit, and let me tell you, it ain't pretty. We're talking about that glorious, shambolic institution we lovingly (and sometimes less than lovingly) call the GOP. Now, they've been flogging this line about Donald Trump being the savior, the only guy with the guts to finally, *finally* punch the "establishment" square in its pasty, moderate face. It's been their mantra for, what, a decade now? Ten years of MAGA-splaining, where every dipstick with a red hat will tell you the same tired fairy tale. Before Trump, they moan, the Republican Party was overrun by a bunch of pantywaist, country club types, all talk and no trousers. They *said* they'd cut taxes, dismantle Obamacare, and whip those welfare slackers into shape. But when push came to shove? Zilch. Nada. They were all hat and no cattle, and they reserved their special brand of venom for the actual conservatives trying to rattle the cage.

And then, boom! Along comes The Donald, riding in like a platinum-haired, golden-escalator-descending Valkyrie, ready to "fight." He was the corrective measure, they say. The one to fix all the "failures." Well, color me unimpressed. This whole narrative? It always smelled fishier than week-old mahi-mahi, and now? It's a full-blown comedy. Because guess what? Trump and his crew have turned out to be exactly the same as the so-called "establishment" they claimed to despise. Old Donnie promised to balance the budget, for crying out loud! Said he'd do what hadn't been done in 24 years. Two months later? He's throwing money around like a drunken sailor on shore leave, blowing up the deficit, and attacking any Republican who dares suggest a hint of fiscal responsibility.

Honestly, it's like watching your grandpa put on your dad's old leather jacket and trying to convince you he's now a rebellious biker. He's still your grandpa, and he's still wearing plaid pants under that leather. You can dress it up, but it's still the same song and dance. Politics is not some newfangled invention. Coalitions? They need wrangling. Electoral math? It's as constant as gravity, and it doesn't change just because some reality TV star decided to run for president. So, save me the sermons about Trump being "different." He's just another guy playing the same game, and frankly, he's not playing it any better.

#2 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2025-05-22 02:23 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

#2

Post 'O the Year... so far.

#3 | Posted by Corky at 2025-05-22 02:32 PM | Reply

Trump Thinks He's a King " George Washington Disagrees

www.youtube.com

1 mins

#4 | Posted by Corky at 2025-05-22 05:14 PM | Reply

And it's everything the right whined about, claimed to be against and derided Biden for from 2020-2024. Over 1,100 pages, non-budget stuff being forced into budget bills, deficit spending and solidifying POTUS power in ways that violate the separation of powers.

I'm sure they'll be silent when it comes to any of that but will happily chirp the latest talking points and excuses when needed.

#5 | Posted by jpw at 2025-05-22 05:34 PM | Reply

He's just another guy playing the same game, and frankly, he's not playing it any better.

Great post, but I disagree with the final line.

He's not playing the same game in that Trump is the most shamelessly corrupt, money grabbing conman to hold office at the national level in our lifetimes.

So, in a way, he is playing it better...or worse depending on your perspective.

#6 | Posted by jpw at 2025-05-22 05:37 PM | Reply

OpEd: Attack of the Sadistic Zombies
paulkrugman.substack.com

... Republicans in Congress, taking their marching orders from Donald Trump, are on track to enact a hugely regressive budget " big tax giveaways to the wealthy combined with cruel cuts in programs that serve lower-income Americans. True, the legislation suffered a setback last week, initially failing to make it out of committee. But that was largely because some right-wing Republicans didn't think the benefit cuts were vicious enough.

OK, news at 11.

Isn't this what Republicans always do? But this reconciliation bill -- that is, legislation structured in such a way that it can't be filibustered and may well pass with no Democratic votes -- is different in both degree and kind from what we've seen before: Its cruelty is exceptional even by recent right-wing standards.

Furthermore, the way that cruelty will be implemented is notable for its reliance on claims we know aren't true and policies we know won't work -- what some of us call zombie ideas.

And it's hard to avoid the sense that the counterproductive viciousness is actually the point.

Think of what we're seeing as the attack of the sadistic zombies. ...



#7 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-05-22 06:34 PM | Reply

CBO Report Shows Trump-GOP Bill Would Spur Unparalleled Wealth Transfer From Poor to Rich

"If enacted, this would be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in U.S. history."

May 21, 2025

www.commondreams.org

THANKS, TRUMPERS!!

#8 | Posted by Corky at 2025-05-22 07:15 PM | Reply

"Senator Rand Paul, Republican of Kentucky, said he simply would not vote for a measure that increases the federal debt limit, as the House bill would, to stave off a potentially calamitous federal default later this summer.

"I'm not voting to raise the debt ceiling $4 trillion to $5 trillion," said Mr. Paul who also criticized the push for billions of dollars for new border security and fencing, arguing that the Trump administration had already successfully clamped down. "There's nothing conservative about this, and I just can't be supportive."

"Let me just say," Mr. Schumer said at a news conference, "what the House just passed last night makes it significantly easier for us to take back the Senate."

Following the House approval, Democrats and their political allies immediately unleashed a barrage of political attacks on the legislation and the vulnerable Republicans who supported it.

There are enough republicans in trouble and very vulnerable after this bill just in NY and CA for the Democrats to take back the House"

AP

#9 | Posted by rstybeach11 at 2025-05-22 07:18 PM | Reply

#2 | Posted by lee_the_agent

This is AI in the tone and writing style of George Carlin, yes?

#10 | Posted by rstybeach11 at 2025-05-22 07:18 PM | Reply

NO TAXES ON SOCIAL SECURITY! What happened?

Yeah, they changed that in the middle of the night.

Now they're actually doubling the taxes on Social Security.

It's the Republican way.

#11 | Posted by rstybeach11 at 2025-05-22 07:19 PM | Reply

"The "Oligarch's Budget" Wages War on Poor Americans

Unless you're very wealthy, this bill will ultimately leave you worse off and more economically vulnerable."

truthout.org

a lot more at the link about the programs, many of them primarily based in Red states, this will end or cut

#12 | Posted by Corky at 2025-05-22 07:26 PM | Reply

It's gonna be really, really funny
to see that stupid AARP magazine that shows up uninvited every month
try to play this one down the middle.

#13 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-22 07:30 PM | Reply

Companies like Walmart had been overstocking with purchases the last few months to stave off price increases from Traitor Trumps Terrible Tariff Tiff.

That's all over now, and Trumpers are going to, according to most companies, be paying more for most things they buy.

Wonder how they are going to like that? How will it help them own a lib?

#14 | Posted by Corky at 2025-05-22 07:34 PM | Reply

"Yes, Trump's Budget Bill Is Really That Bad, That Cruel, and That Billionaire Friendly

Cuts to Medicaid. Sale of public land. The big, stupid wall. It's a conservative wish list, and Christmas came early."

www.esquire.com

#15 | Posted by Corky at 2025-05-22 07:41 PM | Reply

similar headlines appearing around the country:

"PA Republicans vote to cut taxes for billionaires, take healthcare away from their own communities"

keystonenewsroom.com

#16 | Posted by Corky at 2025-05-22 07:49 PM | Reply

@#9 ... "Senator Rand Paul, Republican of Kentucky, said he simply would not vote for a measure that increases the federal debt limit, ...

Yeah, and the Republican zombies in the House were saying similar things.

But, in the end, they caved to Pres Trump cruel desires, as brain-dead zombies seem to do.


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#17 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-05-22 08:01 PM | Reply

When this is over, there'll be a list of all the bribes these clowns got for their votes.

Trumpers won't care.

#18 | Posted by Corky at 2025-05-22 08:19 PM | Reply

Where's the MRGA crowd on this thread to argue that the bill does not specifically say, in writing, "we're going to add $3 trillion in debt to the economy over the next 10 years," and then argue that it's a good thing to take health care away from millions of people because some grandma in Kansas defrauded Medicare by getting an extra mammogram a couple of years ago? They are cheering for billionaires being able to buy another super yacht by stripping food money from poor people ... just what Jesus would've done!

#19 | Posted by chuffy at 2025-05-23 04:35 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

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