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

House GOP can't agree to proceed to debating Senate reconciliation bill, vote stands at 206 Yea, 216 Nay (4 GOP against), with 10 GOP not voting

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Yikes.  Even if all not voting GOP vote Yea, there's a tie. Not good enough. And moments ago Thomas Massie changed his Yea to Nay lol.  ...

Don Bacon: Please stop hating me

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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

The current policy baseline helps Republicans hide the fact that they are spending like drunken sailors

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Tuesday, June 24, 2025

Because the BBB is a GOP Christmas tree of policy-change goodies masquerading as a reconciliation bill

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This was taken down pretty early this morning by the suck-ups at Real Clear Politics. I guess the bosses come in a little later than the hel...
Saturday, June 21, 2025

The U.S. Senate parliamentarian still has not ruled on the GOP's wacky current policy vs. current law baseline

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The current policy is the temporary Trump tax cuts from 2017.  The current law is the tax compromise worked out by Barack Obama and John Boe...
Wednesday, June 11, 2025

I guess stocks didn't like the monthly Treasury statement indicating worsening fiscal conditions lol

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Five months in, the Trump administration still doesn't have spending under control with the fiscal year to date deficit running 13.5% higher than last year to this point

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Deficit FY 2024 through May: $1.202 trillion Deficit FY 2025 through May: $1.364 trillion Difference: $162 billion MORE in the hole than las...
Thursday, June 5, 2025

It took only a few months of intense familiarity for Elon Musk to develop his complete contempt for Donald Trump and Capitol Hill

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 Elon made his Oval Office farewell just six days ago, and now look at them. Elon is an exceptionally accomplished person in the auto indust...

Not your daddy's Republican Party

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The Republican claim that the Big Beautiful Bill's cuts to Medicaid coverage will be offset by enrollments in employer-provided health insurance is a bad joke

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The enrollment rate in employer provided health insurance is down four points 2008-2021, from 54% to 48%. Why? Costs. The average premium f...
Wednesday, June 4, 2025

Mad King Ludwig's soul is in chaos, full of conflicting desires which he is utterly unable to satisfy: Trump now calls for letting Congress spend without limit weeks after touting tax increases on the rich to pay the bills

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 Trump calls for scrapping debt limit  (June 4) Trump pushes Republicans to have rich pay more taxes (May 8) Trump pivots, says GOP should...

Interest on the national debt has to be paid out of current tax receipts, crowding out other spending

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 Defense department spending in fiscal 2025 is estimated to clock in at $873 billion.
Tuesday, June 3, 2025

Tesla sales must be worse than we thought

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  Musk torches Trump budget bill: ‘Disgusting abomination’      
Thursday, May 29, 2025

These lunatics are their own worst enemies

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 The guy with the common sense about the national debt who stands in the way of Trump's Big Beautiful Bill wants to re-litigate 9/11. Se...
Wednesday, May 28, 2025

The lead actor in the sequel to the Grace Commission didn't realize it was just a show

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  Elon Musk says Trump’s spending bill undermines the work DOGE has been doing   ... “I was, like, disappointed to see the massive spending ...
Sunday, May 25, 2025

House Speaker Mike Johnson's spending bill is in big trouble with the US Senate's Ron Johnson

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  Sen. Ron Johnson: Spending Cuts In House GOP's Budget "Basically A Rounding Error," Adds $22 Trillion In Debt ... You have h...
Friday, May 23, 2025

The complaisance is amazing, we are the French

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 Yes mon ami, there are Muslim-controlled no-go zones in gay Paris, but what can we do? 🤷 2 Cheers for Passing Tax Bill. Too B...
Thursday, May 22, 2025

Paper tiger Donald Trump March 2018: I will never sign another bill like this again

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He's signed them ever since lol. Nothing's changed.   Trump signs $1.3 trillion spending bill into law despite being ‘unhappy’ about...

So-called fiscal hawks of the House GOP totally cave and narrowly pass Trump's omnibus tax and spending bill 215-214: Massie of Kentucky and Davidson of Ohio were the sole Nay votes

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 The House Freedom Caucus is a joke, along with the rest of them: At least $20 trillion in new debt over ten years, increases the SALT cap f...