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Voters Will “Get Over It,” McConnell Tells GOP Colleagues About Medicaid Cuts

Polling consistently shows that voters strongly object to the Medicaid cuts proposed in the GOP reconciliation package.

https://voices.murica.website/?p=25040

Trump has put defense stocks back in play, Wall Street pros say

Defense contractor stocks may help protect your portfolio from a summer of geopolitical risks. “I think using an…
#UnitedStates #US #USA #Defensecontractor #defensespending #GEAerospace #InvescoAerospace&Defense #InvescoAerospace&DefenseETF #Iran #LockheedMartin #northropgrumman #presidenttrump #reconciliationbill #trump
https://www.europesays.com/2187420/

Walz and Johnson Make #MisleadingClaims About Bill’s Impact on #SNAP

#Republican and #Democratic leaders have either downplayed or overstated the estimated impact of the House #reconciliationbill on the #SupplementalNutritionAssistanceProgram, formerly known as #foodstamps.

https://www.factcheck.org/2025/06/walz-and-johnson-make-misleading-claims-about-bills-impact-on-snap/

Trump-Voting States Take Their Lumps As Republicans Target US Solar Industry For Elimination

https://cleantechnica.com/2025/06/10/high-energy-bills-blame-a-republican/

#bigbeautifulbill #reconciliationbill #ushouse #ussenate #republicans #highenergybills #energybills #utilitybills #energycosts #solarindustry #ussolarindustry #greenjobs #greeneconomy #budgetbill #taxcredits #solarfactories #greenenergy #sustainability

Trump-Voting States Take Their Lumps As Republicans Target US Solar Industry For Elimination

https://cleantechnica.com/2025/06/10/high-energy-bills-blame-a-republican/

Elections have consequences, part infinity.

https://cleantechnica.com/2025/06/10/high-energy-bills-blame-a-republican/

Elections have consequences, part infinity.

https://cleantechnica.com/2025/06/10/high-energy-bills-blame-a-republican/

This week's Skinny timed out with the end of the month, and a season change on my website; needless to say I'm a little exhausted. I'm fond of this one tho, there's several pieces I wrote this week that when cleaned up clearly could have been full essays. Not that I had the time to source them, but some of this was pretty good for a social media blog for sure.

This week we're talking about how the budget bill fuels the fascist anti-trans pogrom, the multiple purposes of the surveillance panopticon, ICE agents setting traps for migrants at courthouses nationwide, and the banality of the open white nationalism the regime engages in daily. Oh, and Senate Democrats could stop the GOP homicidal class war Billionaire Bill in its tracks; do they want to? Check out this week's Skinny for more:

https://www.ninaillingworth.com/2025/05/31/the-skinny-banality-of-evil-in-trumps-america/2/

The Skinny: Banality of Evil in Trump’s America

"Which brings us to the vague wording, and potentially broad applications of this ideological screening. As we’ve learned to watch for from studying the Heritage Foundation’s Project Esther, and the Trump administration’s clear adherence to its doctrines, there is nothing in any of the administration’s orders targeting dissidents that essentializes being pro-Palestine, or anti-genocide. The regime has already asserted the power to define anything as terrorism, or material support, and even casual criticism as being a threat to US national security, so why would they stop at anti-genocide protestors or foreign students at all for that matter? A vast digital panopticon relying on “AI-processing” technology to sort through every aspect of a targeted individual or group’s lives can and almost certainly will be repurposed to identify and surveil the regime’s political and ideological opposition in broader American society until such a time as a ghoul like Marco Rubio, or Pam Bondi finds a way to declare that their constitutional rights too, are null and void."

#Fascism #USPol #ReconciliationBill #TransRights #Trump #GOP #ICE #MarcoRubio #StudentVisas #WhiteNationalism #TheSkinny #Newsletter

Unfortunately we still haven't run out of terrible things to talk about in the Republican Party's homicidal class war budget, the Billionaire's Murder Bill if you will, while it percolates in the GOP-controlled US Senate. I'm a little late to the party, but I'd like to talk a bit about the bill's proposed changes to immigration policy and funding, because I think it exposes how the absurdly-named "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" is as much a vehicle to prosecute a white nationalist policy agenda, as it is a piece of budget legislation that openly robs the American labor class on behalf of uber-wealthy oligarchs.

Using this May 17th, 2025 article from The Guardian, I want to focus in on two key areas of discussion here: funding, and ethno-nationalist policy. For clarity's sake however, I'm going to look at them in the opposite order they're presented in the article, starting with funding.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/17/us-house-republicans-fees-immigrants

US House Republicans propose fees on immigrants to fund Trump’s crackdown

"More than $50bn is allocated in the legislation to construct a wall along the border with Mexico, as well as fortifications elsewhere. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) will receive $45bn for detention facilities, $14bn for its deportation operations and billions of dollars more to hire 10,000 new agents by 2029."

This is the most straightforward part of the bill's odious support for Trump's fascist mass deportation scheme, and since it actually deals with allocating funds, this is the part you're supposed to put in a budget reconciliation bill. Frankly speaking however there is nothing appropriate about spending $50B on a border wall we know won't "work" to keep out migrants and as recently as five years ago at least one side of the US political establishment recognized would be a grotesque monument to American nativism; a formerly partisan principle that tragically seems to have fallen by the wayside in the Democratic Party's desperate quest to court suburban cracker voters in the lead up to an election they'd go on to lose anyway. Given that Trump is already using ICE as his white nationalist Gestapo, does anyone who isn't a raging nazi think it's a good idea to let DHS hire 10,000 more ICE goons? Whose interests does it actually serve to hand $45B to private prison contractors, and budget another $14B for fascist mass deportations? Please keep in mind here that you can't divorce these expenditures from the massive cuts to social safety net programs specifically targeting the American labor class; in addition to murdering people for bonus billionaire yacht money, the GOP is saying that your kids should go hungry and poor people should hop in the woodchipper so Trump can build his absurd and racist border wall.

As disgusting as all of that is however, the real kicker here is the way the proposed budget bill works to create a de facto, albeit loose, white nationalist ban on immigration, through the application of unprecedented fees for sponsors of would be immigrants, including asylum seekers.

"Heidi Altman, vice-president of policy at the National Immigration Law Center, said the new fees appeared targeted at the sorts of immigrants that the Trump administration has prioritized keeping out, such as asylum seekers, who arrived in large numbers during Joe Biden’s term.

“It’s part of the administration’s assault on humanitarian protections for immigrant communities,” Altman said. “This is an entire new way of thinking about fees as a penalty, essentially, for an immigrant status.”

Under the bill, immigrants would have to pay $1,000 to apply for asylum, $100 to keep an application active each year as it makes it through the overburdened immigration system, and $550 for a work permit. People requesting humanitarian parole to enter the United States would have to pay $1,000, and abused or neglected children who qualify for a program called Special Immigrant Juvenile Status would have to pay $500. Immigration cases can take a long time to resolve in court, but if a defendant asks a judge for a continuance, they would have to pay $100 each time.

These fees do not exist under current law, and the bill specifies they cannot be waived in almost all circumstances."

Look folks, the "both sides" muppets in our discreetly white supremacist media aren't going to grapple with what this bill does because they're terrified of being sued by the Klepto Kaiser, but this is pretty obviously some cracker nazi shit. By putting un-waivable and arduous fees on even asylum processes, the regime is actively working to screen out migrants from poorer, browner countries in the global South in a way that won't immediately be flagged as illegal ethno-nationalist bullshit in the larger discourse; because newsflash, America is kinda racist. Practically speaking however, this is an attempt to enshrine Trump's project to whiten America into law, by abusing the budget reconciliation process.

#GOP #ReconciliationBill #WhiteNationalism #Trump

I hate to keep harping on the same point, but it's almost as if the fascist GOP knows they're probably not going to be able to pass very much legislation before the midterms, so they're determined to squeeze every ounce of authoritarianism and legalized political persecution they can into what is ostensibly, a reconciliation budget bill. Take for example this recent Intercept report revealing that hidden deep inside the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" is a provision that would drastically increase criminal penalties for whistleblowers who leak unauthorized disclosures of tax records, and those who “print or publish in any manner” leaked tax return information.

ttps://theintercept.com/2025/05/21/big-beautiful-bill-republican-tax-return-leaks/

Why Does GOP Budget Bill Focus on Punishing People Who Leak Tax Returns?

"As the Trump administration vows to crack down on leakers, Republicans in Congress want to hand the Justice Department even more power to punish one extremely specific type of leak: unauthorized disclosures of tax records, which in recent years have exposed the creative accounting of the Trump family and wealthy allies like Elon Musk.

A provision tucked near the end of the GOP’s massive budget bill — at page 1,081 of the 1,082-page text circulated late Sunday — would double the maximum prison sentence for leaking tax returns to 10 years and increase possible fines from $5,000 to $250,000 per violation.

Boosting penalties for leakers may seem an odd fit for a budget bill, much like the “nonprofit killer” provision that was recently nixed without explanation. Because of their tenuous relationship to fiscal matters, the provisions potentially aren’t allowed under the rules for Congress’s budget reconciliation process."

Obviously this is nowhere near as serious an issue as banning Medicaid coverage for gender affirming care, or carving a trillion dollars out of Medicaid and SNAP programs that keep labor class Americans alive, so you can give billionaire broligarchs like Peter Thiel more spare yacht money; there is however a lot of weird and repressive bullshit going on here. Most importantly, the proposed penalties for publishing leaked tax information is a clear attempt to suppress journalists and free speech rights in general; it almost certainly isn't constitutionally legal, although the jury is very much still out on how much that actually matters in Trump's brave new fascist America.

The other half of this story then is the reality that this provision is all part of a longstanding Republican grievance over Trump's leaked tax returns, and the maximum five year sentence given to the man who leaked them, Charles Littlejohn. You can check out the linked story for more details, but I would still advise against assuming this is purely just a genuflection to Swine Emperor Trump's bruised ego and vengeance complex. The reality is that what the fascist GOP is proposing here amounts to increased targeting of a form of modern whistleblowers, who are only denied that designation because they're targeting the secrets of a wealthy ruling class who employ their considerably financial power to dictate the political possibilities in our society. As climate crisis transforms into climate catastrophe, billionaires buy more Pig Empire governments, and undisclosed wealthy funders pay to disseminate anti-protest, fascist, and even eliminationist propaganda in our discourse, Charles Littlejohn will not be the last whistleblower exposing the tax records of our ruling classes; and the Republican Party clearly means to discourage that behavior with provisions like this one slipped into the reconciliation budget.

#Budget #USPol #GOP #RepublicanParty #BillionaireBill #Trump #Fascism #TaxReturns #Whistleblowers #ReconciliationBill #Media #FreeSpeech #1stAmendment #ClassWar #Billionaires

I know some of you folks struggle with the massive amount of reading it takes to really get a handle on the GOP's class war reconciliation budget, so today I'd like to mix in this eighteen minute video by Mike Figueredo of The Humanist Report that covers a couple of the topics we've been discussing in this thread, and includes analysis of some (horrible) aspects of this bill I haven't even had time to touch on yet.

Mike opens up with a discussion about why House Republicans don't want to talk about their sociopathic theft and murder bill that enriches billionaires at the cost of labor class American lives, and some of the ways they're working to obfuscate the truth and discredit accurate analysis of what the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" actually does; including obtaining injunctions against Democrat-funded billboards warning people that the GOP would gut Medicaid funding, on the grounds that the accusations were "false" - which is funny not only because the GOP just advanced a bill that guts Medicaid funding exactly like the Democrat billboards said they would, but also because I don't recall any injunctions ever being awarded to stop the GOP from lying to the public on billboards.

This then transitions into a surprisingly thorough overview of what the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" does; including tax cuts for billionaires, paid for by slashing funding for Medicaid, SNAP, climate crisis mitigation, and student loan reductions. As clips provided by Figueredo demonstrate this is going to harm Americans in all sorts of ways that aren't being discussed very much right now in our political discourse, including forcing the closure of rural hospitals, reducing Veterans services, defunding disability support, driving up unemployment, and of course the elimination of gender affirming care, including life-saving HRT, for hundreds of thousands of Americans. Finally as in my analysis, Mike brings the whole story home by focusing on why this bill will literally destroy America, and represents an active class war against labor class people, on behalf of the very richest members of our ruling class.

It's a slick little presentation, and watching it is worth your time.

The Humanist Report: Republicans DESPERATE to Hide How They Just Voted to Destroy Their OWN Constituents' Lives

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hv7Imk4rbN0

"House Republicans just passed Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” which transfers wealth from the poorest Americans to the richest. After getting what they wanted, they’re not too happy about people asking them about their deceit. For example, multi-millionaire Republican Virginia Foxx condemned the “extreme” language used to describe their disastrous bill, while other millionaire Republicans like Marianette Miller-Meeks ran away from advocates when she was asked about the bill. In this video we’ll look at the pathetic response from the GOP and talk about the most harmful elements of the bill."

#USPol #ReconciliationBill #MikeFigueredo #TheHumanistReport #Video #GOP #ClassWar #TransRights #Medicaid #Snap #Capitalism

When examining the GOP's homicidal class war budget reconciliation bill, I think it's crucial to also look at why this horrible Frankenstein's monster that now exceeds a thousand pages, is being stitched together in secret and released under the cover of darkness. The fact is Republican strategists know that voting to rob and murder labor class Americans to empower and enrich billionaire broligarch nazis, while legally enshrining a fascist administrative order over US life to defend these changes, is not going to be popular with the American people once they figure out what this bullshit mega-bill actually does. Furthermore, given that there's absolutely nothing subtle about the ways the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" transforms our society at a pen stroke, it is impossible for GOP politicians to lie and deflect their way through discussions about the bill; so they'd simply prefer you didn't know about all the awful shit inside it.

Fortunately however there are a lot of groups forensically dissecting the GOP's budget reconciliation bill, which may well be the worst piece of legislation I've ever seen the US House actually pass. Take for example recent analysis by Public Citizen showing that by forgoing the proposed increases to US military spending and ballooning funding for the Trump regime's objectively illegal and unconstitutional mass deportation program, the government could keep literally millions of labor class Americans (already being ground up by capitalism) from losing healthcare and food assistance through Medicaid and SNAP.

https://truthout.org/articles/gop-bills-militarized-funding-boost-could-instead-keep-millions-on-medicaid/

GOP Bill’s Militarized Funding Boost Could Instead Keep Millions on Medicaid

"According to a report released Thursday by Public Citizen, the reconciliation bill proposes a boost of over $163 billion to militarized spending, including funds for the Pentagon and for the Department of Homeland Security’s mass deportation campaign. This would bring the Pentagon’s yearly budget to over $1 trillion and triple the budget for mass immigration detention, the report says.

Further, this funding boost alone could more than fund Medicaid for nearly 14 million people at risk of losing their health care coverage under the reconciliation bill, as well as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), or food stamps, for 11 million who may lose food assistance under the bill.

Shifting funding away from these lifesaving programs and instead allocating it to militarization is effectively “trading life for death,” the report says.

“This reconciliation package is a direct redistribution of resources from struggling Americans to the Pentagon and militarization,” said Lindsay Koshgarian, report co-author and Program Director at the National Priorities Project, in a statement. “Protecting families from losing health care and going hungry is as simple as rejecting new spending on dangerous and unnecessary weapons and indiscriminate mass deportations.”

The purpose of producing reports like this one is to demonstrate that the Regime is actively choosing to prioritize militarization, violence, and white supremacy over the healthcare and food security of labor class Americans; if somehow massive tax cuts that benefit only the top 10% of Americans, and primarily enrich the literal top 1% of earners in the country, while stacking almost another four trillion (with a t) dollars onto the debt, didn't make the point abundantly clear - this should. Naturally, this kind of analysis is rarely going to be featured in corporate media which largely supports a trillion dollar pentagon budget, and funding for militarized policing (of a particular flavor), so it behooves Americans who're aware of this objectively fascist bullshit to share this information widely; hence, this post.

If we step back to examine the broader picture here however, it's difficult to ignore the message this entire bill sends about what these nazi sociopaths want for our collective future. This is a bill that signs the death certificate for thousands, if not millions of labor class Americans, in order to enrich and empower a ruling class that bought itself a fascist government to prosecute the final stages of a real-as-fuck Pig Empire class war; while actively funding and drastically increasing the Trump regime's ability to prosecute that homicidal agenda by force, both within and beyond American borders. As the planet turns to ash, our civil rights are eroded across the entire Pig Empire, and fascist movements identify an ever-expanding circle of "others" who must be targeted for elimination, passing the One Big Beautiful Bill Act is an open signal by the ruling fascist party in America that they are preparing to wage, and win, that war immediately; and if the dystopian future they clearly envision for us is any indication, these nazis are playing for keeps.

#Fascism #Trump #Imperialism #ReconciliationBill #BillionaireBill #ClassWar #Theft #Murder #Migrants #MassDeportation #WhiteNationalism #Pentagon

As more information leaks out about how objectively horrifying the Big Billionaire Bill the GOP is ramming into law and hoping nobody notices it will kill their own voters actually is, it's becoming clear that the Act is also a way to prosecute the Trump regime's eliminationist agenda at the same time. We've already uncovered a GOP plot to defang judicial oversight over Trump's illegal and unconstitutional mass deportation campaign, and now observers have exposed another last minute change that would deny gender affirming care to, and likely cause the forced detransition of, hundreds of thousands of transgender Americans.

https://theintercept.com/2025/05/22/big-beautiful-bill-trans-medicaid-healthcare-minors-adults/

Republicans Launch Midnight Attack on Health Care Access for Trans Americans

"Late Wednesday, Congressional Republicans amended the bill to prohibit the use of Medicaid funding for gender-affirming care, potentially ripping healthcare access away from hundreds of thousands of transgender Americans.

An earlier version of the legislation targeted Medicaid funding for gender-affirming care for minors. In a midnight-hour maneuver, Republicans removed the word “minors” from that provision, prohibiting the use of Medicaid funding for “gender-transition procedures” for children as well as adults.

The legislation broadly defines “gender-transition procedures” as everything from surgery to hormone therapy. It needs only a simple majority to pass the Senate.

Experts on transgender health care said that if this provision advances, it could make an already-dire landscape for transgender care significantly worse. They described devastating consequences for the hundreds of thousands of transgender Americans who rely on Medicaid that will be further compounded by the roughly $700 billion in cuts to the health program in the GOP bill."

For the past three years, and in response to a dangerous shift in rhetoric and tactics by the fascist Pig Empire right, I've been trying to explain to cis het people that Trump and the GOP's anti-trans policies are unquestionably part of a larger anti-trans pogrom designed to eliminate or otherwise end by any means possible, the existence of trans people in America. The accuracy of that analysis was demonstrated on day 1 of Downmarket Mussolini's second term as President when Der Leader issued an executive order declaring there were only two legally recognized "biological sexes" in America; thereby decreeing that trans people effectively don't exist. This should have been a massive wake up call for cis people who don't want tens of thousands of dead trans people, particularly trans women, on their hands, because historically when a state says that you do not exist, it's because they mean to make it so.

Unfortunately, this warning, which was also supported by multiple leaked GOP and far right strategy sessions in which elected Republican politicians and think tank minions openly admitted their ultimate goal is ending trans care in American entirely, and Donald Trump's repeated public campaign promises to do the same, has largely gone unheeded; particularly by a Democrat establishment much more interested in blaming Harris's 2024 US election loss on her utterly nonexistent defense of trans rights. Well folks, we're here in the exact place I always told you would be arrive at, and my only question is "what now, wise centrists?"

The fact is this article doesn't even come close to properly articulating what a horrifying development this is for both trans people, and anyone who doesn't want to live under a fascist dictatorship where a reality TV show nazi President gets to decide who has a right to merely exist. The Republican Party knows full well that the US Constitution and international human rights law will make it extremely difficult to just round up trans people in concentration camps to force detransition them and start murdering folks, so they've settled on a subtler but no less homicidal strategy. The fascist right is thus working to eliminate gender affirming care for trans people entirely, while threatening anyone who employs or financially supports trans people to drive us out of the work force. These guys know all about the mental health problems and suicide rate increases brought on by untreated gender dysphoria, community isolation, and poverty; in fact, they're counting on it to allow them to wipe out trans people without getting any blood directly on their hands as they let "nature take its course."

Of course, I expect this warning to once again fall on the deaf ears of Very Serious People TM in the American liberal establishment, where transphobia runs almost as rampant as it does inside GOP war rooms. Who cares if labor class trans people die without gender affirming care when the point here is to signal to suburban white crackers who will never vote for you that you're just as anti-trans as the Pork Reich, right?

#Fascism #Trump #GOP #AntiTransPogrom #TransRights #Medicaid #GenderAffirmingCare #Budget #ReconciliationBill

Under the cover of darkness House Republicans slipped a provision into their budget bill that would, at least temporarily, allow Donald Trump to be the dictator of his wildest dreams.

https://www.ninaillingworth.com/2025/05/22/nina-bytes-reconciliation-and-a-us-enabling-act/

Nina-Bytes: Reconciliation and a US Enabling Act

"In the past I’ve written about the many ways we can observe the Trump administration trying to create a patchwork “Enabling Act” out of emergency powers, novel interpretations of decades-old legislation, and even the resurrection of rarely-invoked war powers to fight a wholly fictitious “invasion” by gangs. With the One Big Beautiful Bill Act in his pocket, the Swine Emperor might finally have the vehicle he needs to fully transform America into a fascist dictatorship. The plain truth here is that the Republican politicians who voted to ram this bill though Congress last night were already would-be thieves and murderers; this provision now makes them the willing architects of Trump’s Pork Reich."

#Fascism #Trump #Courts #PoliceState #GOP #ReconciliationBill #USConsitution #USPol #MikeJohnson #Dictatorship #EnablingAct #SCOTUS #Contempt #RepublicanParty

As I've pointed out repeatedly in this thread, there are literally so many things wrong with the GOP's homicidal class war reconciliation bill that it's hard to talk about them all, and observers are discovering new awful things about it all the time. For a pretty terrifying example of this phenomenon, we need look no further than the discovery of a hidden provision in the "Big Beautiful Bill" that will essentially unravel the US constitution, and grant Swine Emperor Trump the fascist dictatorship of his dreams.

I'm absolutely not being hyperbolic, and to prove the point I'd like to examine this late night blog post by former US Labor Secretary Robert Reich.

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-hidden-provision-in-the-big-ugly

The hidden provision in the Big Ugly Bill that makes Trump king

The key thing to understand here is that the hyper-targeted provision Reich is talking about effectively obliterates the only real power federal judges have over Trump, in relation to multiple high-profile lawsuits and court orders stopping the regime from doing illegal, unconstitutional, fascist bullshit as we speak. Things like abducting and attempting to deport foreign student anti-genocide protestors, or kidnapping migrants and trafficking them to a torture prison in El Salvador, for example.

"Not if the Big Ugly Bill is enacted with the following provision, now hidden in the bill:

“No court of the United States may use appropriated funds to enforce a contempt citation for failure to comply with an injunction or temporary restraining order if no security was given when the injunction or order was issued….”

"Translated: No federal court may enforce a contempt citation.

Obviously, courts need appropriated funds to do anything because Congress appropriates money to enable the courts to function. To require a security or bond to be given in civil proceedings seeking to stop alleged abuses by the federal government would effectively immunize such conduct from judicial review because those seeking such court orders generally don’t have the resources to post a bond.

Hence, with a stroke, the provision removes the judiciary’s capacity to hold officials in contempt."

Okay, I want to make sure everyone understands what we're talking about here. While the provision the fascist GOP has snuck into the reconciliation budget bill doesn't specifically empower Trump to rule as a dictator, in enables it in practice and we have a metric fuck-ton of evidence that Downmarket Mussolini will use it to do so. This is an administration that's already openly defying court orders, disingenuously interpreting decades-old legislation to grant the President unconstitutional powers, and publicly trying to dismantle judicial oversight of its again, illegal, fascist activities. Literally the only thing hemming the regime in right now, is that the de facto immunity granted to the President by a disastrous 6-3 fascist high SCOTUS decision last summer, doesn't extend to the rest of the regime. Trump's minions and lawyers can be held in contempt and prosecuted for ignoring or violating court orders; in fact that's currently a very real possibility in two separate and ongoing cases about the El Salvador migrant trafficking operation, which should tell you an awful lot about why House Republicans snuck this provision into the bill under the cover of darkness.

Unfortunately however, and as Reich notes, overpowering a couple of federal judges trying to stop the Trump regime from shredding the US Constitution isn't even rock bottom for this fascist bullshit. The effective elimination of contempt citations would not only render the entire US judiciary impotent and merely advisory, but it would also render the legislative branch (so, Congress and the Senate) unable to curtail, punish, or even investigate executive branch activities; since the President could simply ignore that too without courts being able to hold the regime in contempt. In other words, there would no longer any restraints on the Trump administration except those their consciences provided; and given that these are unhinged genocidal Christian Nationalists, I'm gonna avoid betting on the better angels of their nature. These folks are fascists, and now House Republicans would like to make Trump their dictator; there is no other way to interpret this provision.

"With this single provision, in other words, Trump will have crowned himself king. No Congress and no court could stop him. Even if a future Congress were to try to stop him, it could not do so without the power of the courts to enforce their hearings, investigations, subpoenas, and laws."

Folks, the people who voted to ram this bill though Congress last night are already would-be thieves and muderers; this provision now makes them the willing architects of Trump's Pork Reich. As I've said many times, the courts will not save us; we fight, or this nazi shit walks and heaven help us all.

#Fascism #Trump #Courts #PoliceState #GOP #ReconciliationBill #USConsitution #USPol

Well, we're in the shit now. In the event you haven't heard, House Republicans rammed through their nightmare class war reconciliation bill in the dead of night, because when you're voting to murder and rob your own voters, it's best to wait until everyone is asleep. This is of course, bad. The "Big Beautiful Bill" does however still have to make it past the Senate, where there has been pushback over Mike Johnson's proposed $715B in Medicaid cuts; most notably from faux-populist Josh Hawley. Of course, in the US system of government the Senate has the power to alter the bill before voting; which means things could easily get worse too. The long and short of the situation is that we're probably still fucked, but we get to spend multiple weeks agonizing over whether or not we're completely fucked; because American politics is basically the meatspace answer to the Torment Nexus.

All of which means that we're still breaking down the most horrifying aspects of the GOP's homicidal class war reconciliation bill; which honestly might have so much nightmare shit inside that it'll fully pass into law before analysts get a chance to talk about all of the reasons this is a terrible bill. Take for example the unhinged and highly-partisan assault the Republican Party is conducting on green energy initiatives and subsidies. We already know the Trump regime is committed to burning the planet to ash as fast as possible purely as a matter of ideology, but did you know that eliminating everything about Biden's 2022 Inflation Reduction Act will also increase household costs for everyday Americans and eliminate as many as 830,000 jobs? These guys sure are good at "the economy."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/22/trump-republican-tax-bill

Trump’s tax bill to cost 830,000 jobs and drive up bills and pollution emissions, experts warn

The analysis in this article is kind of all over the place, but we're essentially looking at three issues here: job losses, increased household expenses, and climate damage that will be directly caused by this bill.

"And the legislation will cost the US 830,000 jobs by 2030 compared with the status quo, Energy Innovation found. That includes the direct loss of jobs in fields such as solar panel manufacturing and electric vehicle production, indirect job loss from the decreased investments and lower clean energy demand, and induced cuts resulting from consumer spending cuts attributable to layoffs, higher fuel costs, and other third-order effects.

“The Inflation Reduction Act was carefully crafted to create good-paying jobs in deindustrialized communities, underserved communities, and coal communities. We have seen that it is doing just that, creating good jobs you don’t need a college degree to get and opening up pathways to the middle class across the nation,” said Ted Fertik, vice-president of manufacturing and industrial policy at climate and labor advocacy group Blue Green Alliance. “Killing the tax credits in the Inflation Reduction Act is a direct attack on working Americans.”

I think these devastating numbers speak for themselves, but it's also worth pointing out that because the IRA's green energy spending was specifically targeted at rural, deindustrialized communities, this is going to result in significantly more job losses in Republican voting areas than "blue" states. Whether that matters to you is a question of opinion, but it again exposes that the GOP is actively voting to harm its own supporters at every turn in this bill.

"The bill as it stands will cause Americans’ energy bills to spike by stymying new renewable energy – often the cheapest form of new electricity generation – the non-partisan thinktank Energy Innovation calculated. The average household will see their bills rise by more than $230 by 2035."

I mean who doesn't love paying higher power bills, am I right? Obviously nobody is going to lose their minds over an additional $230 per year in energy costs, but this must be understood in the context of all the *other* ways this bill is going to increase household costs for American families; more expensive power, combines with higher medical costs, and reduced food subsidies to add up to an insurmountable barrier for low income families pretty fast.

“This will all come at the expense of the environment,” said Orvis.

The new bill will also cause the US to emit 260m tonnes more pollution than it would’ve otherwise in 2035, which is more than the entire annual emissions of Spain."

And of course it wouldn't be a Trump-approved bill if it didn't literally kill the planet faster.

Naturally, all this nightmare bullshit is being sold as "ending subsidies for woke corporations" because not getting black lung is apparently woke now. The obvious truth here however is that this ENTIRE bill is a subsidy for rich people, paid for by literally robbing and murdering labor class Americans.

#GOP #Budget #USPol #MikeJohnson #ReconciliationBill #Austerity #ClassWar #Theft #Murder #Capitalism #ClimateCrisis #energy

I bet you thought you'd escaped budget stories, didn't ya? Sadly the joke's on us all because the GOP's homicidal class war reconciliation budget can now be fairly described as *historically* awful. As more people analyze the CBO report on the "Big Beautiful Bill" Mike Johnson is ramming through the house for Swine Emperor Trump, it's becoming clear that this is literally an unprecedented high speed robbery of the American labor class, to fatten the pockets of the already obscenely wealthy.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/republican-wealth-transfer

CBO Report Shows Trump-GOP Bill Would Spur Unparalleled Wealth Transfer From Poor to Rich

"The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said Tuesday that the Republican legislation speeding through the U.S. House of Representatives would cut household resources for the bottom 10% of Americans while delivering gains to the wealthiest in the form of tax breaks.

"If enacted, this would be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in U.S. history," Bobby Kogan, senior director of federal budget policy at the Center for American Progress, said in response to the CBO analysis, which was released shortly before the start of a dead-of-night House Rules Committee hearing on the Republican reconciliation package."

I mean, if I'm being honest I feel like we could just wrap this discussion up right there; it doesn't really get more direct than "the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in U.S. history." Let's go get some pizza?

Okay fine; there is a little bit of obtuse CBO report language to wade through in this article. Fortunately however the final breakdown isn't all that complex. In addition to stripping over a trillion and a half dollars in long term funding from life-saving social assistance programs like Medicaid, SNAP, and Medicare, this bill also shifts the tax burden onto the least wealthy Americans, to benefit more wealthy Americans in higher tax brackets. Particularly the very wealthy ruling class. Folks already being ground up by capitalism suffer more hardships and worse health outcomes, so rich people can buy more shit that helps them extract even more value out of the American labor class.

In the final analysis the CBO report proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that House Republicans are actively planning to rob and murder poor people, to pay off the rich; which some of you may remember I've been telling you all along. We just have it writing now.

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I'm not sure what it's going to take for mainstream media to admit the GOP reconciliation budget bill is absolutely a plot to murder labor class Americans for the benefit of the wealthiest people in our society, but the evidence that this is precisely what's going on here continues to mount. A breaking Congressional Budget Office estimate released last night shows that precisely because the Republican Party's class war murder and theft bill does *not* reduce the deficit, but will in fact increase it, passing this budget reconciliation bill will automatically trigger sequestration under the Statutory Pay‑As‑You‑Go Act; which is a fancy way of saying it will result in over $500 billion in cuts to Medicare over the next 10 years. This is of course despite President Donald Trump's promise that the so-called "Big Beautiful Bill" wouldn't touch funding for either Medicaid or Medicare.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/cuts-to-medicare

'They're Not Just Cutting Medicaid': GOP Bill Would Trigger Over $500 Billion in Medicare Cuts

"This Republican budget bill is one of the most expensive—and dangerous—bills Congress has seen in decades," said Boyle, the top Democrat on the House Budget Committee. "The nonpartisan CBO makes it clear: The deficit will explode so badly it will trigger automatic cuts, including over half a trillion dollars from Medicare."

"This is what Republicans do—pay for massive tax breaks for billionaires by going after programs families rely on the most: Medicaid, food assistance, and now Medicare," Boyle added. "It's reckless, dishonest, and deeply harmful to the middle class."

Boyle highlighted the CBO's findings during his testimony at the House Rules Committee hearing, which began in the early hours of Wednesday morning.

"This is really the breaking news," Boyle said. "Over the last several months, there's been no discussion of Medicare at all. There has been of Medicaid, but not of Medicare."

"Because of the size of the deficits, because of the PAYGO or Pay-As-You-Go Act, that would trigger sequestration of Medicare, and it would total over $500 billion," Boyle continued. "The official figure that CBO confirms is $535 billion in cuts to Medicare."

For those of you who are unaware, Medicare is the federal health insurance program that typically provides coverage for Americans 65 and over; it's at least partially funded by payroll taxes and in a country that does almost nothing to help seniors who are no longer in the workforce, it's a program that saves lives every single day. The GOP has been trying to eliminate or privatize this program for decades, and as such I have a hard time believing these proposed cuts, which again add up to like $550B over the course of ten years, are in any way accidental even if they are automatic. These GOP nazis know what they're doing, and the rest of their budget is devoted to the same goal: killing poor and marginalized people so the wealthiest individuals in our society can pile up more money they won't live long enough to spend. Peter Thiel needs more cheddar to mainstream dystopian fascist propaganda, so Grandma is going in the woodchipper; that's literally the plan here, and it is both entirely predictable and intentional.

Which of course brings up the question of why American corporate media isn't just up and telling you that the Republicans want to kill poor people and seniors to pay for Elon Musk's quest to birth himself a child army by bribing social media influencers to accept his sperm? Could it be because the people who own those media outlets stand to make a pretty penny from the GOP's reconciliation budget bill and they hate poor people almost as much as rich Republican nazis do? Who can say...

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The GOP is giving rich people hundreds of billions of dollars in tax breaks and they want to pay for it by slashing healthcare and starving poor people.

Nina-Bytes: Theft, Murder, and the GOP Reconciliation Budget

https://www.ninaillingworth.com/2025/05/13/nina-bytes-theft-murder-and-the-gop-reconciliation-budget/

"Since killing your constituents so rich people can buy another yacht isn’t a popular policy decision, Trump and the GOP promised to pay for these cuts by hunting out “waste, fraud, and abuse” through DOGE cuts and the implementation of tariffs that were going to make us rich enough to end income tax; predictably neither of those schemes worked out. The most generous verifiable estimates have DOGE finding $63B worth of “waste” to cut with a difficult to confirm promise the department will save $160B by the fiscal year 2026. I understand that might sound like a lot of money to you or I, but it’s miniscule compared to the $2 trillion Elon Musk claimed DOGE would find and also isn’t enough to pay for $880B in tax cuts for rich people. Trump’s unhinged tariff policies have predictably been an even bigger joke, and Der Leader is already trying to roll back most of his trade war. These numbers simply don’t add up, so now the quest to find “waste, fraud, and abuse” to pay off the billionaire donor class means throwing poor people off Medicaid and calling that efficiency.)

(Note: I wrote 90% of this last week, then got sick and had zero time to finish it till last night; hunting source links and editing take time, and I just didn't have it till now. My bad.)

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