U.S. Budget & OBBB | Fall Gov’t Shutdown risk

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Donald Trump says he wants to rebrand his 'big, beautiful bill'​

The president, who has leaned into his branding skills, said the name he selected "was good for getting it approved, but it’s not good for explaining to people what it’s all about."

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Donald Trump says he wants to rebrand his 'big, beautiful bill'

The president, who has leaned into his branding skills, said the name he selected "was good for getting it approved, but it’s not good for explaining to people what it’s all about."
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“…"Last month, in a landmark achievement, I also proudly signed the largest working-class tax cuts in American history. So the bill that — I’m not going to use the term 'great, big, beautiful' — that was good for getting it approved, but it’s not good for explaining to people what it’s all about," Trump said. "It’s a massive tax cut for the middle class."…”
 
Under the proposed cuts for 2026, the congressional districts that make up the core of the Triangle would lose $2.1 billion and 9,000 jobs, according to projections by the Science & Community Impacts Mapping Project, a project by an interdisciplinary team of data researchers.
North Carolina’s 4th Congressional District — home to Duke University and the University of North Carolina’s flagship campus in Chapel Hill — would be the hardest hit district in the country, according to SCIMaP, which estimates the district would lose $1.2 billion in direct funding and indirect economic impact, accounting for 5,300 jobs and researchers.
 
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Under the proposed cuts for 2026, the congressional districts that make up the core of the Triangle would lose $2.1 billion and 9,000 jobs, according to projections by the Science & Community Impacts Mapping Project, a project by an interdisciplinary team of data researchers.
North Carolina’s 4th Congressional District — home to Duke University and the University of North Carolina’s flagship campus in Chapel Hill — would be the hardest hit district in the country, according to SCIMaP, which estimates the district would lose $1.2 billion in direct funding and indirect economic impact, accounting for 5,300 jobs and researchers.
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That’ll set off a localized Depression that’ll spill over the entire state.
 
Shut it down and let Republicans never figure out how to get their ahit together to reopen it. Because we all know they cant.

Its not like Trump is going to be any more or less abusive of his power one way or the other.
 
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Senate Republicans Speed Towards Rules Change

"Senate Republicans are coalescing around a rules-change package that would effectively steamroll Democrats’ blockade of President Donald Trump’s nominees," Punchbowl News reports. "And they want to move fast." "After a two-hour meeting in the Capitol
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But protect the filibuster at all costs …
 

Healthcare at Center of Government Shutdown Fight—and Democrats Insist They Won’t Blink​


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Healthcare at Center of Shutdown Fight—and Democrats Say They Won't Blink

Democrats say healthcare is be the battlefield, and they won't help Republicans avert a government shutdown without concessions
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“… Party leaders have signaled that they plan to use the looming funding showdown to press for reversals of Medicaid cuts, extensions of expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies, and limits on President Donald Trump’s spending authority—even if it means shouldering the political risk if negotiations collapse.

“Healthcare is a clear red line,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York told reporters on Thursday. “We will not support a partisan Republican spending bill that rips health care away from the American people.”

Government funding expires at the end of the day on Sept. 30, and without action, much of the federal government would close. Republicans narrowly control both chambers of Congress but need some Democratic votes to reach the required 60-vote threshold to pass a funding bill in the Senate. Jeffries, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, and other Democrats are signaling they intend to use that leverage to reopen the fight over Trump’s domestic agenda, particularly provisions in his “one big, beautiful bill” that cut deeply into Medicaid and jeopardize subsidies under the Affordable Care Act. Together, the two policies threaten to raise costs or strip coverage from millions of Americans—and Democrats say they will not sign off on another spending bill without concessions….”

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Color me skeptical of the Democrats’ resolve.
 
If I'm the Democrats, I press three issues that require progress in exchange for a funding resolution:

1) Health care - extension of ACA subsidies and full reversal of Medicaid cuts. This is the tangible part of what we are fighting for.
2) The administration agrees to spend what's currently been authorized by Congress. What's the point of negotiating a funding and spending resolution if it's not be going to be followed.
3) A statutory tightening of when emergency powers can be invoked and how long they last as they pertain to national guard and military operations in domestic arenas.
 
"...“There is something wrong with them,” Trump said about Democrats in a rare in-studio “Fox and Friends” interview. “If you gave them every dream right now ... they want to give away money to this or that and destroy the country. If you gave them every dream, they would not vote for it.”

“Don’t even bother dealing with them,” he added. “We will get it through because the Republicans are sticking together for the first time in a long time.”

Lawmakers have until midnight on Sept. 30 to reach a funding deal. GOP congressional leaders are eyeing a “clean” stopgap that would keep current spending levels in place, with a few exceptions, until late November.

But Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said this week that Democrats will not vote for any such bill absent bipartisan negotiations. Both leaders have said that health care concessions, such as extending soon-to-expire insurance subsidies or restoring Medicaid cuts made in the GOP megabill, are essential to a deal.

Democrats have say in the matter because any funding deal will need 60 votes in the Senate, where the GOP has a 52-vote majority. But Trump on Friday suggested he was not aware of the mathematics.

“We have to get Republican votes. That’s all,” Trump claimed. Pressed about the 60-vote threshold, Trump responded: “No. We’re gonna do a — probably a continuing resolution, or we’re gonna do something. So we’re gonna do something,” he said.

“Here is the problem,” Trump quickly added, “the Democrats have: They’re sick. There is something wrong with them. Schumer is at end of the rope.” ..."

 
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