U.S. Budget & OBBB | OCT 1 - Gov’t Shutdown Begins

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


“…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. …”
 

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 ?

 
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 ?

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.
 
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.
Glad someone else noticed it. I don't know why they go out on a limb with this stuff. "I will never support a bill that . . . " and then they end up supporting it a week later. What was the point?

It's always interesting to me, in a bad way, when reading stories about how the GOP has "five or six holdouts but they are expected to come around." If everyone expects you to come around, what's the point? It's like Trump folding left and right and thinking he still has leverage.
 

House Republicans Worry Trump’s Rescission Package Might Endanger Reconciliation​

“Trump is running out of political goodwill with members, and if he tries to codify the unpopular cuts and reconciliation at the same time, he might not get either done,” one GOP member told NOTUS.


“The White House wants to send Congress a rescission package — essentially legislation to codify the administration’s DOGE cuts and send the money back to the Treasury — as soon as lawmakers return from their two-week recess.

House Republicans are hoping President Donald Trump might hold off for a bit.


A second GOP member told NOTUS that the smartest thing to do would be for the administration to lay out what rescissions they want privately as opposed to making a public, formal request. That would allow Republicans to simply put the rescission requests into reconciliation and count the savings toward the final cost of the bill.

That move would also prevent Congress from having to work on two controversial pieces of legislation at the same time and save vulnerable Republicans from yet another tough vote. …”

I Guess If You Say So GIF
 
Yeah they are slowly moving some content behind a paywall, didn’t notice this was one example.
Back in the 90s, there was quite the debate as to whether information wanted to be free. I was on the side of, "no, information does not want to be free" and I think our camp has prevailed.
 
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