Showing posts with label The National Debt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The National Debt. Show all posts
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 ...
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...
Wednesday, June 4, 2025

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.
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...
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 16, 2025

USA loses last AAA rating, from Moody's, perfectly timed for after GOP can't move a budget out of committee lol

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Moody’s downgrades U.S. credit rating, citing rise in government debt ... Moody’s had been a holdout in keeping U.S. sovereign debt at the ...
Friday, May 9, 2025

The chairman of the House Fweedom Caucus is calling for tax increases on the rich

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 Not to reduce the deficit, but to pay for all the new Trump goodies. $50 trillion in debt in ten years is a lead-pipe cinch.  
Thursday, April 10, 2025

Democrat Pete Aguilar (CA-33) predicted the House Freedom Caucus would cave to the Senate budget proposal, and every last one of them did lol

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They have no principles. The national debt is going to soar just like it would have under Harris. Spartz and Massie, the lone Republican Nay...
Tuesday, April 8, 2025

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard: Trump will stop at nothing in his quest for imperial power and will destroy the credibility of US Treasury debt

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  telegraph.co.uk If you think it’s alarming now, just wait for Trump to wreck the bond m...
Wednesday, April 2, 2025

The GOP US House was so proud of passing its budget framework at the end of February, too, but Trump just threw them under the bus for the Senate plan, which will put the country $50 trillion in debt by 2034

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 ROFLMAO.    
Thursday, March 13, 2025

Republican Senator Mike Crapo is full of Orwellian crap, says extending the Trump tax cuts which increased deficits by $1.7 trillion won't keep increasing deficits

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   If you're not changing the tax code, you're simply extending current policy—you are not increasing the deficit. The bottom line h...
Monday, March 10, 2025

War is the father of everything awful

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     War is the father of debt, and of the Navy Seal barbarians in Congress who know how to destroy but not how to build: ...  a lethal band...
Saturday, March 1, 2025

House Republicans everywhere are taking incoming at townhalls and district office protests over DOGE layoffs and cuts, budget bill is full of more of the same

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Republicans fear their big budget win is a 2026 time bomb ... Some Republicans already see signs that the backlash to the Trump administrati...
Friday, February 28, 2025

If you thought the GOP pretending that Ukraine started the war with Russia was nuts, behold Senator Mike Crapo of Idaho who wants to pretend that Trump's 2017 tax law wasn't passed under reconciliation rules

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   Honest to God, these people are clowns. Republicans consider major budget change to obscure deficit impact of extending Trump’s tax cuts ...
Wednesday, February 26, 2025

The National Debt has been at $36 trillion plus change since Nov 21

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   Three months and counting. The federal government is expected to blow through $7.266 trillion in fiscal 2025. That's $20 billion EVER...
Sunday, February 23, 2025

Now the Trump administration is imitating the most odious revolutionary rhetoric of the Obama administration

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  WH's Karoline Leavitt: Trump "Is Fundamentally Transforming Our Country For The Better"   We are fundamentally transforming ...
Thursday, February 13, 2025

The billionaires never say, Raise taxes now or face an economic heart attack

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  The word "tax" appears nowhere in this story. Ray Dalio is worth $19 billion.   Ray Dalio to the Trump administration: Cut debt ...
Sunday, February 2, 2025

Trump's new Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent, has given Elon Musk control of the payment systems which control everyone's Social Security and Medicare benefits

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   Billionaire Elon Musk’s deputies have gained access to a sensitive Treasury Department system responsible for trillions of dollars in U.S...
Friday, January 24, 2025

Repealing the 22nd Amendment is a great idea, but not Republican Andy Ogles' (TN-5) idea of revising it to allow Trump a third term but not Clinton, Bush 43, nor Obama

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 Constitutional amendment to allow Trump third term introduced in the House Ogles' idea that Trump was denied the power inherent in two ...
Tuesday, January 14, 2025

Deficit spending 40% worse than a year ago, national debt climbs to $36 trillion

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