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[superrific]

Between Trump’s tariff shenanigans, erroneous and/or misleading DOGE cost-saving claims and the Senate GOP’s magical accounting, MAGA, DOGE and the entire GOP are at war with math.

Math has been taking advantage of us for decades. It's time to fight back.

 

[JCTarheel82]

Between Trump’s tariff shenanigans, erroneous and/or misleading DOGE cost-saving claims and the Senate GOP’s magical accounting, MAGA, DOGE and the entire GOP are at war with math.

Math is a tool of the Deep State.

 

[Calheel]

Math is a tool of the Deep State.

In fairness, math is why we have national debt. If we could get rid of math, we could get rid of the national debt.

 

[nycfan]

 

[HintonJamesHeel]

Trump told Republican senators he’s open to raising taxes on highest earners

The president’s private comments weren’t seen as full-throated support, but they could change the course of his party’s debate.

www.semafor.com

President Donald Trump told Republican senators in private last week that he’s open to raising tax rates on some of the highest-earning Americans, according to three people familiar with the meeting.



Trump’s comments came during a sitdown about his agenda with Senate Budget Committee Republicans and Majority Leader John Thune. After Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., asked Trump how he’d view a proposal to let taxes increase on the highest earners, the president replied that he’d be fine with that idea, the three people told Semafor.

 

[nycfan]

 

[Bobfripp]

Rebuking folks in Jesus' name is the nuclear option!

 

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[nycfan]

$1 Trillion is a lot less than they want to cut and he separately said he wants a $1 Trillion military budget.

 

[nycfan]

 

[HintonJamesHeel]

“Cutting $1 trillion sounds nice until you realize we are up $2 trillion since 2019. That’s not super.

 

[nycfan]

 

[nycfan]

 

[Healing]

 

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[nycfan]

“…This week, as part of the process to develop a budget for fiscal-year 2026, the Trump White House shared the draft version of its budget request for NASA with the space agency.

This initial version of the administration's budget request calls for an approximately 20 percent overall cut to the agency's budget across the board, effectively $5 billion from an overall topline of about $25 billion. However, the majority of the cuts are concentrated within the agency's Science Mission Directorate, which oversees all planetary science, Earth science, astrophysics research, and more.

… Although the budget would continue support for ongoing missions such as the Hubble Space Telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope, it would kill the much-anticipated Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, an observatory seen as on par with those two world-class instruments that is already fully assembled and on budget for a launch in two years.

…Other significant cuts include ending funding for Mars Sample Return as well as the DAVINCI mission to Venus. The budget cuts also appear intended to force the closure of Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, where the agency has 10,000 civil servants and contractors. …”

 

[nycfan]

 

[heelinhell]

So there are 12 GQPers in the House who have had a come to Jesus moment and suddenly do not want to punish the vulnerable ?

Have we reached a point where dogs and cats are living together ?

'Cannot and will not support': 12 Republicans just dealt a blow to Johnson’s budget bill

President Donald Trump is hoping that Republicans in Congress will pass a "big, beautiful bill' sooner rather than later and get it onto his desk for signature.But within House Speaker Mike Johnson's (R-Louisiana) caucus, there are some major differences over what should or shouldn't go into the...

www.rawstory.com

 

[nycfan]

So there are 12 GQPers in the House who have had a come to Jesus moment and suddenly do not want to punish the vulnerable ?

Have we reached a point where dogs and cats are living together ?

'Cannot and will not support': 12 Republicans just dealt a blow to Johnson’s budget bill

President Donald Trump is hoping that Republicans in Congress will pass a "big, beautiful bill' sooner rather than later and get it onto his desk for signature.But within House Speaker Mike Johnson's (R-Louisiana) caucus, there are some major differences over what should or shouldn't go into the...

www.rawstory.com

Those guys always fold. Like always. I would not hold my breath for them to do otherwise now, though they certainly should have the leverage.

 

[nycfan]

Congress Prioritizes Tax Break That Few Will Claim

"The state and local tax deduction — the subject of one of the most contentious fiscal fights in Congress — is a write-off that most Americans will never claim, even in the districts of the

politicalwire.com