Congress Catch-All | Laken Riley Act is first bill passed by House

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“… A handshake agreement was made Friday to address the debt ceiling in the new year.

Johnson flashed the draft agreement in a House GOP conference meeting that afternoon that said they would raise the debt ceiling by $1.5 trillion in a packaged deal that would include Trump’s border security and economic reform asks, “with an agreement that we will cut $2.5 trillion in net mandatory spending” throughout the legislative process.

Many House Republicans, particularly those responsible for allotting government spending, knew that was an impossible goal unless the party went against its campaign promise to not cut Medicare or Social Security.

Hard-liners also knew an agreement in principle would likely be broken, but could no longer protest as the train was leaving the station on a funding bill that mirrored Thursday’s failed proposal, except that it no longer included the debt ceiling hike.

“They call that a gentleman’s agreement, but there are no gentlemen out here,” Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tennessee) said. …”
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Johnson = capo
Trump = consigliere
Elon = don

There’s no honor, or honesty, among thieves.
 
“… The Senate passed the Gabriella Miller Kids First Research Act after it passed legislation to fund the government until mid March. The Gabriella Miller bill gives the National Institutes of Health $63 million over five years to conduct childhood cancer and disease research, according to Ellyn Miller, founder of the Smashing Walnuts Foundation that pushed for the bill, which is named after her daughter who died of brain cancer.

But Congress did not pass other pediatric cancer research measures that had been stripped from the government-funding bill.

… It’s not clear why Republicans dropped the health care package. The cost of the package was offset, according to a congressional cost estimate reviewed by STAT. So it wasn’t the cost itself that led to it being stripped. …”

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The research dollars extension ain’t nothing, but here is what was not included:

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  • A program that rewards researchers for approvals of pediatric cancer drugs with valuable vouchers that require faster Food and Drug Administration reviews of another drug application of any kind. The priority review voucher program was to be extended until 2029.
  • A program that would allow kids with cancer who are covered by Medicaid and the Children’s health insurance program known as CHIP to receive out-of-state treatment.
  • New authority for the FDA to fine companies when they don’t complete required pediatric studies. The FDA already has this authority for adult studies.
  • New FDA authority to require that companies study pediatric drugs in combination with other treatments for the same disease when those treatments are owned by the same company or are available as generics. “
Now, maybe some version of these bills will get revived and passed as part of a more comprehensive and systematic budget overhaul that is intended by some in the GOP to include $2T in spending cuts.

But maybe not. Our resources are not infinite and as always something has to give. If we have an orderly debate of debt, taxes and spending priorities, these might or might not make the cut. And if I though we were about to have a realistic debate and overhaul of the U.S. budget, I would be hopeful some of these programs have a real chance of passage (many of which are intended to provide services for childhood cancer patients that are already available to elderly cancer patients — which may be the real issue, a perceived mission creep toward Medicare for all who need it).
 


GIFT LINK —> https://www.wsj.com/politics/gop-sp...2a?st=RsVKAD&reflink=mobilewebshare_permalink

“The DOGE caught the CR, and the road only gets bumpier from here.

The latest episode of House Republicans’ fiscal-policy psychodrama featured a familiar problem—how to unite a fractious and slim majority around a continuing resolution, or CR, to keep the government open. That was tough enough before Elon Musk, co-head of President-elect Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, spurred Republicans to chuck a bipartisan agreement that included a series of unrelated deals. …”
 
nycfan said:


Shocked GIF by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
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A speakership battle will significantly delay anything Trump wants to get done in 2025 -- at least through Congressional action. I know Trump can be dumb sometimes, but that would be especially dumb if this is anything more than a brushback pitch.
 
lawtig02 said:
The man won't even be president for another month and he's ALREADY starting to line up more members of his administration who will call him unfit to serve.
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Please name the GOPers, especially members of the Trumplican Administration, who are willing to call Trump “unfit to serve.”

I have a list. It has ZERO names.
 
Calheel said:
. . .. I know Trump can be dumb sometimes, but that would be especially dumb if this is anything more than a brushback pitch.
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When I read the above, the expression, "hold my beer," just sorta popped into my head.
 
TangledUpInBlue06 said:
Just to drive this home: Every dollar of funding for the IRS nets more than a dollar of revenue for the US. The CBO estimated that a $20 billion rescission in funding would reduce revenues by $44 billion, increasing the deficit by $24 billion. (How Changes in Funding for the IRS Affect Revenues)
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Biden had the audacity to increase IRS funding to enable the agency to go after wealthy tax cheats...

www.cbsnews.com

Richest Americans fail to pay $163 billion in taxes, Treasury estimates

The so-called "tax gap" could total $7 trillion over the next decade.
www.cbsnews.com www.cbsnews.com
 
lawtig02 said:
Congrats, calla! Nice work by the spending cutters in the GOP!!! And just in time for Christmas!
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Yep, it was fantastic work. Not surprising you would look at a gotcha headline like the one NYC posted and make your comment or completely disregard everything else that got cut. The simple fact is trump created DOGE to highlight and eliminate wasteful spending. That your side would ridicule that speaks volumes. However, it also highlights just how out of touch this board is with reality. DOGE will be a huge hit among voters. Just wait and see.
 
heelinhell said:
Biden had the audacity to increase IRS funding to enable the agency to go after wealthy tax cheats...

www.cbsnews.com

Richest Americans fail to pay $163 billion in taxes, Treasury estimates

The so-called "tax gap" could total $7 trillion over the next decade.
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"Tax evasion is concentrated among the wealthy in part because high-income taxpayers are able to employ experts who can better shield them from reporting their true incomes, the Treasury Department argued in a blog post. More complicated incomes such as partnerships and proprietorships – more frequent among high earners — have a far greater noncompliance rate that can hit as high as 55%."

Change the effing laws then. Nothing like a democrat to participate in creating an extremely complex tax structure that requires "experts" and an entire specialty of law to administer, then complain that people who can afford to hire them are taking advantage of the very system democrats helped create. Quit bitching and lead the effort to rewrite the tax code. If its so bad, shift more resources to auditing rich people and less to the middle class. The answer isn't hiring more overhead. The answer is simplifying the code or focus more on the wealthy. I'm all for people paying the taxes they legally owe. Hell, I'm all for taxing the wealthy in different ways. But I also fully support the 50% who pay nothing having to have some skin in the game as well.
 
Callatoroy said:
"Tax evasion is concentrated among the wealthy in part because high-income taxpayers are able to employ experts who can better shield them from reporting their true incomes, the Treasury Department argued in a blog post. More complicated incomes such as partnerships and proprietorships – more frequent among high earners — have a far greater noncompliance rate that can hit as high as 55%."

Change the effing laws then. Nothing like a democrat to participate in creating an extremely complex tax structure that requires "experts" and an entire specialty of law to administer, then complain that people who can afford to hire them are taking advantage of the very system democrats helped create. Quit bitching and lead the effort to rewrite the tax code. If its so bad, shift more resources to auditing rich people and less to the middle class. The answer isn't hiring more overhead. The answer is simplifying the code or focus more on the wealthy. I'm all for people paying the taxes they legally owe. Hell, I'm all for taxing the wealthy in different ways. But I also fully support the 50% who pay nothing having to have some skin in the game as well.
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i know this is going to blow your mind, but the complexity of the tax code owes primarily to the gop. back in the 1980s, the tax system was simplified in the bipartisan reform act of 86. since then, the gop has added back the complexity because of their love of tax expenditures. virtually all of the gop's domestic policy involves tax credits. child tax credit from w. opportunity zones. special tax treatment for professionals and a different tax treatment for passive income. special treatment for various corporate entities. so on and so forth.

it is not solely the gop but it is primarily, because they use the tax code for social policy. it isn't the fucking democrats who are driving this.

hiring more overhead is called investment. we can add "running a business" to the list of things you know nothing about.
 
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