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[ponchi101]

I love it that it is almost impossible for any Trump follower to write a full comment without one blatant spelling mistake.
And then they complain when called stupid.

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Make of this what you will.

[ponchi101]

Post was removed, but the comments say a lot.

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The cuts to Medicaid are set to kick in around time for the Midterms so guess who they're going to blame?

[dryrunguy]

Um, the bill isn't law yet. Or did I miss something? I know it passed the final House vote. It's more likely they had grants cancelled. But I could be wrong.

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House passes tax and immigration bill, sending it to Trump’s desk
The legislation, which extends tax cuts and funds border and defense programs, would increase the national debt by close to $4 trillion over the next decade.

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July 3, 2025 at 6:23 p.m. EDTtoday at 6:23 p.m. EDT

By Jacob Bogage and Marianna Sotomayor
Republicans notched their first major legislative victory of President Donald Trump’s second term Thursday, passing a mammoth tax and immigration bill the GOP hopes will reshape the U.S. economy and unwind many of the Biden administration’s accomplishments.

The House, in a 218-214 vote, approved Trump’s self-named “One Big Beautiful Bill,” a $3.4 trillion measure to extend tax cuts from Trump’s first term and implement new campaign promises — such as eliminating income taxes on tips and overtime wages — while spending hundreds of billions of dollars on immigration enforcement and defense. It raises the country’s borrowing cap by $5 trillion, staving off a debt default that the Treasury had warned was just weeks away.

To offset some of the cost of the bill, the legislation cuts about $1 trillion from Medicaid, the federal health insurance program for low-income individuals and people with disabilities, and other health care programs. It reduces spending on anti-hunger programs, including SNAP, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program formerly known as food stamps, by $185 billion.

Nearly 17 million people will lose health care coverage or health care subsidies over the next decade if the bill becomes law, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, and the bill would add roughly $4 trillion to the debt over the next decade, when factoring in debt service payments.

The House vote sends the bill to Trump’s desk to be signed into law in time to beat a self-imposed July 4 deadline. The Senate passed its edition of the legislation Tuesday.

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Republicans heralded the legislation as a boost for the working-class coalition that swept the party to victory in November’s elections, giving it unified control of Congress and the White House.

“It is the principal vehicle for advancing President Trump’s “America First” agenda, unleashing a rising tide of prosperity, securing our border, modernizing our national defense and supercharging energy, agriculture, all the sectors of our economy that our government has kept in a chokehold for too long,” Budget Committee Chair Jodey Arrington (R-Texas) said during debate.

“No one puts a deal together like President Trump. He’s a master. But I think one of the other persuasive things was just looking at the Democrats’ reaction to it,” said Rep. Warren Davidson (R-Ohio), who voted against an earlier iteration of the package. “Maybe the bill is better than I thought.”

But for the lowest-income Americans, the benefits of those provisions are wiped out by the cuts to social safety net programs, and its gargantuan debt impact could slow the U.S. economy, according to independent analyses of the bill.

By 2033, the bottom 60 percent of U.S. taxpayers would be worse off because of the measure, the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton Budget Model reported. The top 0.1 percent of taxpayers — those earning at least $5.1 million — would be more than $83,000 better off.

“This bill is a middle finger to working people,” Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Massachusetts) said on the House floor.

Ultimately, Reps. Thomas Massie (Kentucky) and Brian Fitzpatrick (Pennsylvania) were the only House Republicans who joined Democrats to vote against the measure.

Republicans, citing their own rosy economic growth projections, say that the bill will improve working Americans’ fortunes and that hundreds of billions of dollars of homeland security and defense spending will boost job-creating industries.

Nearly $170 billion in the bill funds the Trump administration’s border and immigration crackdown. The measure imposes $69 billion in new fees on immigrants and visitors to the country. An additional $160 billion would flow to the Defense Department, partially for Trump’s proposed “Golden Dome” continental missile defense system.

The legislation would make permanent a trio of corporate tax deductions that make it easier for companies to invest in research and purchase new equipment while rescinding more than half a trillion dollars in clean-energy programs from President Joe Biden’s 2022 Inflation Reduction Act.

Many of the tax proposals changed as the bill pinged between the two chambers of Congress. The House passed legislation in May that had a smaller debt impact while cutting less from Medicaid.

The Senate swiftly overhauled the measure, making it simultaneously more expensive and more punitive toward Medicaid recipients. Republicans used the budget reconciliation process to bypass a Democratic filibuster in the Senate; that meant when the upper chamber sent its approved legislation back to the House, the lower chamber was unable to alter it and still beat Trump’s deadline. Amendments would have restarted many of the cumbersome processes needed to pass tax legislation on party lines.

The Senate made the corporate tax cuts more generous and temporarily preserved some of the climate credits. On health care, it imposed strict limits on taxes that states charge medical providers as a roundabout way of collecting more federal Medicaid dollars.

That prompted concern among some lawmakers about the fate of rural hospitals, which rely heavily on Medicaid patients.

The Senate’s changes managed to frustrate both ends of the House’s GOP conference. From the center, moderates raged about the approach to health care spending.

“I’m not happy with it at all,” said Rep. Greg Murphy (R-North Carolina), a practicing physician. “That’s horrible policy.”

From the right, lawmakers grumbled about the bill’s debt effects. A group of budget hawks in April extracted a promise from Johnson that the amount in tax cuts would not exceed the amount of spending the bill cut.

“It wasn’t achieved. It was failed,” Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) harrumphed. “The Senate failed.”

Members of the archconservative House Freedom Caucus circulated a three-page memo with a list of nearly two dozen deficiencies with the legislation at a Wednesday meeting at the White House.

“Leave it to the Senate to find a way to aggravate both the moderates and the conservatives in the Freedom Caucus,” said Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-New Jersey), who had concerns about cuts to health care programs. “That’s extraordinary that they did that. That is a real art and science to be able to aggravate everyone in the House. We had a really good bill, a good work product, got everybody on board, and they just had to play with it.”

That White House meeting, though, seemed to be enough to unify Republicans.

Mariana Alfaro, Liz Goodwin, Theodoric Meyer, Paul Kane and Emily Davies contributed to this report.

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They won’t even realize that their lives are more (expletive) with this bill. As soon as it takes effect all republicans and Trump will divorce themselves from this bill. They passed the 2017 tax cuts which were awful and continue to be and they think that it was Biden or Obama’s. They passed the PPP loans and they blame Biden. Then they’ll blame the stimulus checks for inflation but at the same time believe that Trump did it with his own money.

There is no reasoning or logic just vibes.

The WaPo won't let you use FaFo or the word "porn" in a comment. Just a point of information.

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This is the state of Oklahoma.

[Owendonovan]

I think I'll eventually feel bad for these people, not yet.