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

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Listen, let them cut whatever the fuck they want. The Democrats are like a NBA fringe playoff team, not good enough to win, not bad enough to get a top pick so that they can compete. You need to let the GOP implode, even if it is painful for a lot of people. The only way through the current mess is hitting the rock bottom of GOP austerity.
 
Since I noted that their absence might make things easier for Pubs to clear their procedural budget vote tonight, here is an update that two of the three Dems who have been missing votes for legit health reasons showed up for a losing effort voting against the GOP budget …





 
Sounds like Rep Raúl Grijalva (Ariz.), a 77-year-old who has been getting treated for lung cancer and hasn’t been in DC much since the first days of this Congress, could not make it.
 
It's hard to believe Congress will pass the type of Medicaid cuts needed to satisfy the budget resolution.
 


By their own (sketchy) accounting the GOP plan that passed last night would add nearly $20 Trillion to the National Debt over the next decade.
 
Any Trumplicans ever going to comment on all this DOGE slashing spending just so that billionaires can get another unneeded tax cuts AND the deficit increases?
This is what you voted for?
Not a Trump voter, but I do appreciate some of the spending cuts. I do think there is bloat in some of the USAID grants that can be pared down, and I think some of the research grants had some problems with their overhead spending formula. I wish we would see them going after defense bureaucracy instead of medicaid.

I don't appreciate it going to the tax cuts although our family did very well with the last round, especially getting rid of AMT. My kids and future grandkids didn't do so great.
 

It's only about half as bad as it appears to be. Only one R had the guts to not vote for this monstrosity.

WASHINGTON (AP) — With a push from President Donald Trump, House Republicans sent a GOP budget blueprint to passage Tuesday, a step toward delivering his “big, beautiful bill” with $4.5 trillion in tax breaks and $2 trillion in spending cuts despite a wall of opposition from Democrats and discomfort among Republicans

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The vote was 217-215, with a single Republican and all Democrats opposed, and the outcome was in jeopardy until the gavel.


 
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By their own (sketchy) accounting the GOP plan that passed last night would add nearly $20 Trillion to the National Debt over the next decade.

Let me get this straight. By this vote, they are planning a 2 trillion a year deficit for ten years. That's the number........that they, the Republican Parting is planning on and voted for.

I don't think we need to let them forget that this is the number they voted for and if it comes in any less then that by some miracle, then I guess the Democrats are to blame.
 
So after all the spending cuts they are making, not to mention the crap they are putting the country thru, they are still coming up with 2 trillion in deficits? What does that tell us, and what should it tell the country when its pointed out?

From a political point of view, this ain't hard.
 
So after all the spending cuts they are making, not to mention the crap they are putting the country thru, they are still coming up with 2 trillion in deficits? What does that tell us, and what should it tell the country when its pointed out?

From a political point of view, this ain't hard.
Much like plane crashes and near misses, it's price we have to pay in order to own those goddamn libs.
 
Let me get this straight. By this vote, they are planning a 2 trillion a year deficit for ten years. That's the number........that they, the Republican Parting is planning on and voted for.

I don't think we need to let them forget that this is the number they voted for and if it comes in any less then that by some miracle, then I guess the Democrats are to blame.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems like the $2T figure is only IF they find $2T in savings first. So it requires a gutting of major social services to even get to a $2T per year deficit.
 
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