From Heather Cox Richardson: Budget Facts and GOP strategy to get a tax Reconciliation Bill. Not so fast.
DOGE has walked back all their savings, though they’ve destroyed people’s lives and breached our privacy. Why did accept this job? It appears, he’s won another government contract . Now Starlink will be used by the air traffic controllers.
Either Musk’s mission was to stop the Regulators from harassing his Corporations or he wanted more contracts. He never encountered Fraud, but he did succeed in Illegal overreach and violated our privacy and the Constitution.
More about the Budget. If you’re protesting about loss of revenue in your State because Agencies were closed illegally, you’ll continue to protest to the cuts to Medicaid, Medicare? , and Snap. 72 million Americans will be affected by these cuts. Our kids ability to learn will decrease. Kids can’t concentrate unless they have full bellies. This is draconian.
Especially when we’re going to increase the deficit by providing tax cuts to the wealthy.
If the wealthy were taxed, we’d have no deficit. If we decreased subsidies to the Fossil Fuel Industry we’d reduce our deficit. Cut out Agriculture subsidies and we’d have no annual deficit. Tax risky financial products and we’d have a surplus and less risk in the market. There’s lots to think about and more importantly, call your Congressional representatives and protest! Do it now!!
The Facts on the Budget Cuts by Heather Cox Richardson. Read on.
As Buttigieg noted, this budget cuts benefits for the poorest Americans in order to give tax cuts to the wealthiest, but the proposed cuts are not enough to get all MAGAs, many of whom want far more draconian cuts, on board. Johnson needed either to corral them or to get Democratic votes.
For their part, the Democrats rejected the proposal, concerned about the concentration of wealth in the U.S.: on Sunday, economist Robert Reich noted that “[t]he top 0.1% of Americans control $22 trillion in wealth,” while “[t]he bottom 50% control $3.8 trillion in wealth.”
Shauneen Miranda of the New Jersey Monitor reported the statement of Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) today that 24% of Americans get their healthcare from Medicaid, while the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services say that two thirds of nursing home patients receive Medicaid. Cuts would devastate American families. “For what, because Elon Musk needs another billion dollars?” Murphy asked. “The scope of this greed is something that we have never, ever seen before in this country, and we should not accept it as normal in the United States of America.”
At a press conference, House Democrats called out what Representative Greg Casar (D-TX) called “this billionaire budget resolution.” “I know that I and my colleagues here today are ready to go to the mat and fight all the way until we stop this budget and finally demand that, instead of a tax break for greedy billionaires, that we actually tax those greedy billionaires and expand the programs that working people deserve,” Casar said.
It took pressure from Trump to get the House resolution across the line this evening. It ultimately passed by a vote of 217 to 215, with only one Republican, Representative Thomas Massie (R-KY), voting with all the Democrats against it. Earlier this year, Republicans killed a bipartisan push to enable representatives to vote remotely while on maternity leave, so Representative Brittany Pettersen (D-CO) flew across the country with her one-month-old son to “vote NO on this disastrous budget proposal.”
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