Originally published at: House Passes Trump’s Reconciliation Bill After Shoving In Larger Medicaid Cuts At Last Minute
After weeks of intraparty fighting, House Republicans passed the reconciliation package that addresses President Donald Trump’s fiscal agenda in a largely party line 215-214 vote early Thursday morning. Reps. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Warren Davidson (R-OH) voted against the bill, joining all Democrats in opposing the package. House Freedom Caucus Chair Andy Harris (R-MD) voted…
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A despicable clown show.
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I can’t wait to see what senators like Markwayne, Tommy, Rojo, Lindsey, Chuck, Marsha, Rick, and our Texas two-steppers will do with this bill when they get their hands on it. These folks will make Tillis look like Fulbright.
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“Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.” ― Hubert H. Humphrey
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Expect lots of “confrontations” such as the lie-fest in the Oval Office yesterday with the South African president in the coming days to distract from this obscenity.
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Trump voters on Medicaid, told ya so.
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The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates that President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” would pile another $3.8 trillion to that mountain of debt.
“The US is heading in the wrong direction. This bill would be one more nail in the coffin of a country falling under an enormous debt burden,” said Kristina Hooper, chief market strategist at Man Group, the world’s largest listed hedge fund.
Spending on interest has more than tripled since 2017.
The more leveraged that investors believe the federal government to be, the more they will likely demand in compensation in the form of higher interest rates. And that has significant consequences.
The higher interest rates will make it more difficult for consumers to buy a home and for businesses to expand operations. Since this administration has screwed up the United States credit score, as reflected in Moody’s bond quality ratings that Moody’s has kept for the past 108 years. The reduced quality rating means it will now cost more money for the US and individual states to fix bridges and roads
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Lots of deadly GOP cowards.
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Johnson will vote against because it doesn’t do enough to reduce the deficit?
Performative BS from his mouth.
No GOP tax cut bill, dating back from St. Ronnie of Simi Valley has ever cut the deficit. Cutting revenue does not raise revenue.
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Reagan tripled the national debt.
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Here is one of those craven cowards: US Representative Mary Miller Meeks of Iowa. Apparently, she has no comment. She must think that her vote is no concern to the people the United States who pay her salary and the cushy US representative health insurance. No comment for the taxpayers that will have to forgo bridge and road repair, and assistance during disasters and mishandled pandemics. All for the benefit of billionaires.
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Yup. After campaign against Jimmy Carter’s budget deficit and out of control spending…
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And if SNAP is cut by $300 billion, what will that do to the farm economy of her home state, Iowa? Where they grow food.
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MMM doesn’t want to be mean-tweeted.
Maybe dear leader will invest the national treasury into meme coin with the intent of tripling the money!
He really is that savvy!
/s
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I believe that was part of the plan when the trump family started issuing memecoins. He and Elon are planning to loot the treasury and dump it into their bitcoins. Bye bye US Treasury!!
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Does the fatwad know they f*cked with Medicaire? He told them not to do that. (We didn’t get to see him winking as he said it.)
Another day, another outrage. Next up, performative “concern” by senators before they pass it. Deficits don’t matter (h/t: Dick Cheney) so it’s time to start stamping out trillion dollar Krasnob coins.
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It is actually half a trillion dollars. $500 billion
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A bit better captioning on this one of Dr. Miller-Meeks voting for death in America:
https://bsky.app/profile/rvogfifi8.bsky.social/post/3lpprc2nyjc2g
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And fingers crossed behind his back.
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The R’s are trying to frame this as only kicking people off Medicaid with work requirements and tougher qualifications who don’t deserve to be on the program in the first place. See, nobody who deserves Medicaid will lose their coverage! Let’s see if the MAGAts buy this when it hits them.
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