Showing posts with label CBO. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CBO. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 2, 2025

Senate reconciliation bill gives chipmakers like TSMC more tax credits while cutting Medicaid

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  Chipmakers get larger tax credits in Trump’s latest ‘big beautiful bill’    ... Under the bill, passed by the Senate Tuesday, tax credits ...
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

The US Senate's biggest phony, Republican Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, boasted he had enough votes to stop Trump's bill, but voted for it all three times in the end

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    The roll call votes are here , here , and here . June 4, 2025, here : Republican Sen. Ron Johnson on Wednesday blasted President Donald ...
Monday, June 30, 2025

Phony Republican current policy baseline says Trump tax cuts will cost $0 going forward, Congressional Budget Office says $3.5 trillion

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 Graham claims sole authority to decide if GOP megabill complies with budget laws ... Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), the ranking member of the...
Sunday, June 29, 2025

Republicans are doing an end-run around the Senate parliamentarian to make novel use of the current policy baseline instead of current law, asserting a Democrat precedent from 2022

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 Senate GOP declines to meet with parliamentarian on whether Trump tax cuts add to deficit ... Republicans, however, say that the parliamen...
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

GOP in both House and Senate seem to agree that re-upping the 2017 Trump tax cuts won't cost anything even though it did the first time lol, $1.9 trillion over ten years according to the CBO

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The Party now says ignore the evidence of your memory. Reported here :  ... At this point, senior House Republicans privately say they thin...
Friday, June 21, 2024

Biden's forgiven student loans are nothing but new spending obligations of the American taxpayer financed by more borrowing: Big jump in the 2024 deficit due to student loan bailouts

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   Student loan relief contributing to 27% jump in projected federal budget deficit, per CBO  The federal budget deficit will hit $1.9 trill...
Friday, March 22, 2024

Compromise spending bill passes US House 286-134 bringing fiscal year 2024 federal discretionary spending to $1.659 trillion through September

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 WASHINGTON — The House voted 286-134 on Friday to pass a sweeping $1.2 trillion government funding bill , sending it to the Senate just hou...
Wednesday, May 31, 2023

The US House passed the debt ceiling compromise 314-117 this evening

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  Seventy-one Republicans and 46 Democrats voted against the bill in the House — mostly liberals and conservatives protesting specific pro...
Monday, August 8, 2022

The Federal Government has been collecting record taxes for months, but that's not good enough for The Beast: The Manchin inflation bill gives the IRS $80 billion to collect even more, $204 billion extra in the next ten years

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Meanwhile Sean Hannity on the radio is talking about anything but. FEDS COLLECT RECORD TAXES...   ^ FEDS COLLECT RECORD TAXES...   ^   FED...
Saturday, November 20, 2021

$2.2 trillion Build Back Butter bill Democrats insisted would cost nothing CBO estimates would cost $367 billion over ten years

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            So-called Democrat moderates in the House voted for it anyway, 220-213, undermining Republican claims their votes could be peele...
Monday, November 8, 2021

Republicans voted for the Biden infrastructure bill despite the CBO's estimate it would add $250 billion+ to the national debt over 10 years

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 Is $25 billion a year a big deal? We're already paying $500 billion+ EVERY YEAR in interest expense on the debt. Nobody cares.    
Saturday, November 6, 2021

Bipartisan Senate infrastructure plan authorizing $550 billion in new spending passed the House late last night and goes to Biden for his signature

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The bill was opposed in the House by almost all Republicans, and by six far-left Democrats who were outmaneuvered by thirteen moderate Repub...
Monday, August 2, 2021

"two-year suspension of the debt ceiling expired at the end of July"

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Pure gobbledygook. The limit, a facet of American politics for over a century, prevents the Treasury from issuing new bonds to fund governm...
Thursday, July 27, 2017

CBO says overturning individual mandate would mean 15 million would drop health insurance in a heartbeat, so to speak

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Reported here .
Sunday, July 2, 2017

I got your frickin' CBO score right here

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Government at all levels now costs 36% of GDP. We can't afford another pencil.
Friday, June 30, 2017

The servile Kim Strassel has no fight in her, thinks the Senate healthcare bill simply comes down to pre-existing conditions

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                                          From the story here , where Strassel counsels bowing to federal mandates, which means bowing to...
Thursday, May 18, 2017

US House hasn't sent Obamacare repeal to Senate, waiting for budget score from CBO

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It's been two weeks already. These people are soooooooooooooooo unserious. Story here .
Wednesday, January 4, 2017

WaPo and White House, but I repeat myself, lie about Obamacare enrollments by 100%

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WaPo implies more than 20 million are enrolled in a story out today here : White House press secretary Josh Earnest said that Obama to...
Sunday, December 11, 2016

The Obamacare failure: 10 million buy plans on exchanges, 9 million buy off-exchange

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Sally Pipes, here : These off-exchange plans were never expected to be popular, especially compared to the government's marketplac...
Sunday, June 7, 2015

Democrats broke nearly every promise about ObamaCare

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Jack Kelly here : Nearly every promise Democrats made has been broken. The average family pays more (some much more) for insurance, no...