Originally published at: Many ‘Big Beautiful’ Losses Won’t Be Felt Til After Midterms, And That’s Intentional
House Democrats have shifted to a new messaging strategy now that their Republican colleagues have given in to President Trump’s wishes and passed the devastating “big, beautiful” bill despite many Republicans’ supposed concerns about the legislation. A sneaky, midterms-proofing provision is baked in to many of the unpopular impending cuts to social safety net programs…
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The cuts will hit in 2027 and it will effect the 2028 presidential year election. It will be felt then and the Dems will need a trifecta to clean up this huge mess.
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It was very important to make permanent those tax cuts to the billionaires, but the program cuts really aren’t that important until after they get re-elected. Do they think they are smart or something? (rhetorical, no need to answer).
Yes (@nydan516 ) they will hit the '28 elections - and big. That’s when the senior tax deduction stops and seniors do vote!
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Updated.
GOP Government at work. Or more to the point, not working.
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Health care businesses – doctors, hospitals, diagnostic testing sites – make their business plans in advance, a year or more out from where these cuts will affect the entire health care industry. Republicans in Congress won’t be able to escape this with the delay until after the midterms. Those businesses are starting to close up right now in rural areas, and soon elsewhere.
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Absolutely correct and I wish the so called liberal mainstream media would drop their squirrel!/shiny object mentality and report this, but instead many of those useless brunchlords are only interested in the “who’s up/who’s down” DC bullshit.
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Then Democrats need to get on the stick and start planning their “messaging” and selecting evocative words and phrases, honing attacks RIGHT NOW.
We, the voters, will need to tell them this, and tell them over and over and over, because effectively using the years/months prior to an election to campaign seems to be a foreign concept.
Also note: The Evil Rs timed their damage to go into effect after the upcoming distant mid term. And they forced the Democrats to write the Inflation Reduction bill so that the good it delivers would not be seen until well into the next President’s term. Thus, voters won’t experience what Republicans did, nor will they appreciate work done on their behalf by Democrats.
Democrats sucker into this every time. They’ve got to learn to hold the line, probably with hardball tactics, as naked power is all Republicans understand.
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Exactly. Instead of just reporting who will lose coverage, report on what this will do to the employment rate and GDP.
Lots of health care workers going to get laid off. Good paying jobs. And then the multiplier effects from all the money those workers are no longer spending.
Small towns dying.
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Well, I have to say that all comments so far are more optimistic than I am about there even being midterms. Trump has no reason to let those happen. A few well timed ICE raids during primaries followed by calling out National Guard and the Marines to quell “ violence “ and he’ll declare martial law and suspend elections for “public safety “ concerns. The callouts in LA were just rehearsals and to get the courts on record that he can do it. And who’s going to stop him ?
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As of now, elections are controlled by and under the authority of the individual states.
So, while he certainly can and perhaps will, declare martial law and flood blue states with masked pseudo-law-enforcement thugs, he can’t actually suspend their elections.
As of now. But if a Supreme Court ruling next year places all State elections under the authority of the Federal Government, regardless of the clear wording of the Constitution…
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Ghostbusters!
Or a bad hamburger.
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Republicans want women to have 6 or 7 babies. If women are stupid enough to do this, they will find out that there is no rural hospital for them to go to.
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Yes, but you have checked out, and no longer live in this country, right?
Republicans want white women to have 6 or 7 babies.
FIFY
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Yup, I’m down in Belize now. This is like political rubbernecking for me. But i have plenty of family and friends still Stateside who are being affected by it all
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Love Belize. Stuck out to me as such a multi-cultural society… Caribes, Mayans, mestizos, Britts, Rastas, Menonites, Chinese…
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It’s a wonderful place. I’m in Punta Gorda, way down south. Predominantly Mayan but as you say truly multicultural. With us white folks definitely not in charge of anything, and I like that. It’s a young country, not even 50 years old yet and they are trying to get things right
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Or OB/GYN’s near where they live.
Mike Johnson must have had his “porn alert” app turned off because the so-called “Big, Beautiful” legislative bill was pornographic.
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Musk and Yang have connected on the billionaire’s third party threat - POLITICO
As Elon Musk moves to create a third party to upend America’s political system, he’s spoken with one-time Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang about the nascent effort.
Yang, the 2020 White House contender and founder of the independent Forward Party, said in an interview that he has been “in touch” with Musk and his team.
I.R.S. Says Churches Can Endorse Candidates From the Pulpit - The New York Times
In a court filing, the tax agency said a decades-old ban on campaigning by tax-exempt groups should not apply to houses of worship speaking to their own members.
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