#reconciliation-bill — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #reconciliation-bill, aggregated by home.social.
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https://www.europesays.com/people/185234/ Thune, Trump, Senate conservatives reach deal to set aside budget, SAVE America Act impasse #BudgetResolution #JohnThune #MikeLee #PresidentTrump #ReconciliationBill #RonJohnson #SAVEAmerica #Senate #SenateMajorityLeader #SenateRepublicans
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https://www.europesays.com/people/180005/ GOP infighting erupts as Thune warns of legislative ‘trainwreck’ #BudgetResolution #ContinuingResolution #GOP #JohnThune #ReconciliationBill #RepublicanColleagues #SusanCollins #WhiteHouse
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https://www.europesays.com/people/162336/ Can Republicans require voter ID, proof of citizenship through reconciliation? #AdditionalFunding #align='center #BudgetBlueprint #BudgetReconciliation #citizenship #Congress #Enforcement #HouseRepublicans #HouseSpeakerMikeJohnson #MikeJohnson #PresidentDonaldTrump #proof #ProofOfCitizenship #reconciliation #ReconciliationBill #Republicans #SaveAmericaAct #Senate #Source=''][/related]onWednesday #StockTradingBan #vote #VoterID
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https://www.europesays.com/people/153732/ House GOP fast-tracks reconciliation 3.0 with farm aid, Save America Act #Budget #Congress #DonaldTrump #E15 #Elections #FarmBill #FarmEconomy #GTThompson #HouseSpeakerMikeJohnson #Immigration #Iran #JDVance #MikeJohnson #Politics #ReconciliationBill #WhiteHouse
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https://www.europesays.com/people/152520/ Thune’s Senate Warning & The Israel Aid Divide #BudgetCommittee #HakeemJeffries #HouseBudgetCommittee #Israel #JohnThune #LindseyGraham #ReconciliationBill #RonJohnson #Sen #SenateBudgetCommittee #SenateMajorityLeader #ThomasMassie
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https://www.europesays.com/people/152031/ Mike Johnson Pushes Reconciliation Bill to Fund Defense, Agriculture #AgriculturalFunding #FarmAid #MikeJohnson #Politics #Reconciliation30 #ReconciliationBill #SaveAmericaAct
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Defense Funding in Jeopardy as Reconciliation Bill Fades
Defense funding is in limbo after Senate leaders, including Appropriations Chairman Susan Collins and Senator Mitch McConnell, effectively ruled out a third reconciliation bill, dashing Pentagon hopes for a boost in next year's budget. This development puts crucial defense funding in jeopardy.
#DefenseFunding #NationalSecurity #GovernmentPolicy #Pentagon #ReconciliationBill
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https://www.europesays.com/people/100974/ House passes agriculture and FDA appropriations bill #AppropriationsBill #AppropriationsBills #FoodAndDrugAdministration #house #HouseAppropriationsCommittee #MikeJohnson #ReconciliationBill #RuralDevelopment
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Trump Administration Halts $1.8 Billion Fund Amid Republican Oversight Concerns
📰 Original title: Republicans aren't done with Trump's slush fund even as admin surrenders: DC insider
🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
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Trump Administration Halts $1.8 Billion Fund Amid Republican Oversight Concerns
📰 Original title: Republicans aren't done with Trump's slush fund even as admin surrenders: DC insider
🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
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Trump Administration Halts $1.8 Billion Fund Amid Republican Oversight Concerns
📰 Original title: Republicans aren't done with Trump's slush fund even as admin surrenders: DC insider
🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
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Trump Administration Halts $1.8 Billion Fund Amid Republican Oversight Concerns
📰 Original title: Republicans aren't done with Trump's slush fund even as admin surrenders: DC insider
🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
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https://www.europesays.com/people/95508/ Chuck Schumer Hatches Plot To Tank Weaponization Fund #ChuckSchumer #ReconciliationBill #Republicans #SenateDemocrats #SenateMinorityLeader #SenateRepublicans #SlushFund
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Pentagon Explores Foreign Shipbuilding Amid US Capacity Constraints
The Pentagon is eyeing a game-changing strategy: tapping into foreign shipbuilding capacity to bolster its own fleet, with a whopping $1.85 billion request to explore building US Navy ships in Japan or South Korea. This bold move could be a major shake-up in the making.
#UsNavy #ForeignShipbuilding #ShipbuildingCapacity #Pentagon #ReconciliationBill
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Army's Munitions, Industrial Plans Hinge on Reconciliation Bill
The Army's ambitious plans for munitions and industrial upgrades are hanging in the balance, awaiting crucial support from the reconciliation bill to accelerate progress. Without it, the pace of modernization and vital factory upgrades may stall, warns Maj. Gen. Rebecca McElwain, the Army's budget…
#DefenseBudget #ReconciliationBill #MunitionsProcurement #IndustrialModernization #DepartmentOfDefense
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https://www.europesays.com/people/81158/ Senate Ditches D.C. For Memorial Day Without Passing $72B Border Funding Bill #BrianFitzpatrick #CustomsAndBorderProtection #ImmigrationEnforcement #JohnThune #PresidentDonaldTrump #ReconciliationBill #RepublicanLawmakers #SenateMajorityLeader #SenateRepublicans #SenatorThune #TheSenate
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https://www.europesays.com/people/78174/ Trump pressures Senate majority leader to fire parliamentarian #DonaldTrump #JohnThune #MacDonough #NOTUS #PrivateConversations #ReconciliationBill #RepublicanBudgetBill #SenateMajorityLeader #SenateParliamentarian #SenateRepublicans #WhiteHouse
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CW: ICE / immigration enforcement
Republicans released a reconciliation bill with ~$70 billion for ICE and CBP and $1 billion for a White House ballroom renovation, with no cost-of-living relief. Call Republican members to oppose it, email Democrats to fight it, and join a phonebank targeting red-district voters. #ICE #ReconciliationBill #Congress #Indivisible
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CW: ICE / immigration enforcement
Republicans released a reconciliation bill with ~$70 billion for ICE and CBP and $1 billion for a White House ballroom renovation, with no cost-of-living relief. Call Republican members to oppose it, email Democrats to fight it, and join a phonebank targeting red-district voters. #ICE #ReconciliationBill #Congress #Indivisible
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CW: ICE / immigration enforcement
Republicans released a reconciliation bill with ~$70 billion for ICE and CBP and $1 billion for a White House ballroom renovation, with no cost-of-living relief. Call Republican members to oppose it, email Democrats to fight it, and join a phonebank targeting red-district voters. #ICE #ReconciliationBill #Congress #Indivisible
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CW: ICE / immigration enforcement
Republicans released a reconciliation bill with ~$70 billion for ICE and CBP and $1 billion for a White House ballroom renovation, with no cost-of-living relief. Call Republican members to oppose it, email Democrats to fight it, and join a phonebank targeting red-district voters. #ICE #ReconciliationBill #Congress #Indivisible
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CW: ICE / immigration enforcement
Republicans released a reconciliation bill with ~$70 billion for ICE and CBP and $1 billion for a White House ballroom renovation, with no cost-of-living relief. Call Republican members to oppose it, email Democrats to fight it, and join a phonebank targeting red-district voters. #ICE #ReconciliationBill #Congress #Indivisible
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https://www.europesays.com/people/49217/ Senate GOP pushes back on Trump ballroom amid affordability worries #GOP #JohnThune #LindseyGraham #PresidentTrump #ReconciliationBill #SenateRepublicans #TaxpayerMoney #WhiteHouse #WhiteHouseBallroom
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https://www.europesays.com/people/47238/ This week on The Hill: Lawmakers head into ‘hell week’ with FISA and reconciliation 2.0 #FISA #house #HouseFreedomCaucus #HouseRepublicans #HouseRulesCommittee #JohnThune #KingCharlesIII #MikeJohnson #RalphNorman #ReconciliationBill #Republicans #Section702OfFISA
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https://www.europesays.com/people/46221/ This week on The Hill: Lawmakers head into ‘hell week’ with FISA and reconciliation 2.0 #FISA #house #HouseFreedomCaucus #HouseRepublicans #HouseRulesCommittee #JohnThune #KingCharlesIII #MikeJohnson #RalphNorman #ReconciliationBill #Republicans #Section702OfFISA
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https://www.europesays.com/people/38342/ Trump Rallies GOP Unity As Senate Moves On High-Stakes Border Funding Bill #ImmigrationAndCustomsEnforcement #JohnThune #PresidentDonaldTrump #ReconciliationBill #Senate #SenateDemocrats #SenateMajorityLeader #SenatorLindseyGraham #USBorderPatrol
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https://www.europesays.com/people/36939/ House GOP resists passing Senate DHS bill until after ‘skinny’ ICE, Border Patrol funding #BorderPatrol #DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity #DHSBill #HouseRepublicans #JohnThune #MikeJohnson #ReconciliationBill #SenateBill #SteveScalise #TheSenate #WhiteHouse
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Graham Weighs Defense Spending in Reconciliation Bill
Senator Lindsey Graham is walking a tightrope on defense spending, resisting pressure from defense hawks to expand a reconciliation bill while trying to keep costs in check. He's aiming for a lean and focused measure, but will it be enough to satisfy lawmakers on both sides?
#DefenseSpending #ReconciliationBill #NationalSecurity #GovernmentBudgeting #Senate
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https://www.europesays.com/people/27584/ Senate moves forward with plan to fund ICE, Border Patrol for 3 years #ImmigrationAndCustomsEnforcement #JohnBarrasso #JohnThune #LindseyGraham #PresidentDonaldTrump #ReconciliationBill #SenateMajorityLeader #TheSenate
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https://www.europesays.com/people/16693/ Trump Rejects John Thune’s DHS Funding Proposal To End Shutdown: Report #democrats #DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity #DonaldTrump #GOPSenators #JohnThune #PartialGovernmentShutdown #PunchbowlNews #ReconciliationBill #SenateMajorityLeader #SenateRepublicans
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https://www.europesays.com/people/15037/ Republicans Face Internal Revolt Over Their Own Plan to End Shutdown #DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity #HouseFreedomCaucus #MikeJohnson #PresidentTrump #ReconciliationBill #Republicans #SpeakerMikeJohnson
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https://www.europesays.com/people/11281/ Trump Killed TSA Funding Deal in Fiery Private Exchange With John Thune: Report #DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity #DonaldTrump #ImmigrationAndCustomsEnforcement #JohnThune #PunchbowlNews #ReconciliationBill #SenateMajorityLeader #SenateRepublicans #TSA
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https://www.europesays.com/people/5500/ House Republicans seek to fund ICE before passing Senate DHS bill, complicating plan to end shutdown #BorderPatrol #DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity #GOP #GOPLeaders #house #HouseFreedomCaucus #HouseRepublicans #ImmigrationEnforcement #JohnThune #MikeJohnson #ReconciliationBill #Senate #SenateBill
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Medical Debt Expected to Grow as Premiums Rise and Trump Slashes Regulations
The Trump administration has gutted rules and programs meant to protect people from ever-increasing health care costs.
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Medical Debt Expected to Grow as Premiums Rise and Trump Slashes Regulations
The Trump administration has gutted rules and programs meant to protect people from ever-increasing health care costs.
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Hunger Threatens to Plague “Golden Years” of Older Americans Due to Trump’s Cuts
Malnutrition and food insecurity are set to soar among vulnerable older populations due to aid cuts in Trump’s budget.
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Trump’s Tax Law Seeks to Override Rules Protecting Children in Immigration Jail
Tucked into the legislation are provisions that pave the way for migrant children to face longer periods in detention.
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Trump Is Trying to Dismantle Public Health — and Replace It With a Police State
From the streets to town halls and the courts, it’s a race now. The Trump administration is fighting to remain a step ahead of the growing popular backlash to its draconian cuts to social programs that millions of Americans depend on — at least until the administration operationalizes enough of the police state it’s practicing on immigrants to put down any such objection.
This post has been syndicated from Truthout, where it was published under this address.
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Sanders: Members of Congress Who Voted for “Big Beautiful Bill” Must Be Ousted
Democrats must make the bill “the defining issue of the 2026 campaign,” Sanders said.
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Weekly output: Android and Wear OS updates, Gmail’s Manage Subscriptions tool, Grok coming to Teslas, clean-energy rebates and tax credits
This week saw the return of one of Washington’s most treasured rites of summer: the free outdoor concerts at Fort Reno Park in Tenleytown. Unfortunately, I let myself get spooked by the weather forecast for Monday’s show and then had a schedule conflict for Thursday’s show–and now I see that the forecast calls for rain tomorrow evening.
7/9/2025: Google Unpacks Another Round of AI Features, Starting With Gemini On Wear OS, PCMag
SamsI contributed a tiny bit of PCMag’s coverage of Samsung’s latest Unpacked product-announcement event with this writeup of some new features Google announced for some of Samsung’s new hardware.
7/9/2025: Gmail’s New ‘Manage Subscriptions’ Feature Is Here, But It Doesn’t Go Far Enough, PCMag
If I had written about this new Gmail feature only from Google’s announcement of it, this might have been a much more positive piece. But what they rolled out doesn’t come close to helping Gmail users cope with their overflowing inboxes.
7/10/2025: After Elon Musk Says Grok Is Coming to Teslas, the Jokes Drive Themselves, PCMag
Writing this short post took longer than I expected because it represented my belated introduction to the content-embedding feature in PCMag’s CMS.
7/11/2025: Interested in Clean-Energy Tax Credits? The Clock Is Ticking Thanks to Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’, PCMag
Researching this piece felt like doing my taxes, with the added annoyance factor of my knowing that we were never eligible for some of the Inflation Reduction Act’s incentives anyway.
#android #cleanEnergy #ElonMusk #gmail #greenEnergy #Grok #heatPump #InflationReductionAct #IRA #ManageSubscriptions #OneBigBeautifulBill #reconciliationBill #Samsung #SamsungUnpacked #Tesla #WearOS
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Weekly output: Android and Wear OS updates, Gmail’s Manage Subscriptions tool, Grok coming to Teslas, clean-energy rebates and tax credits
This week saw the return of one of Washington’s most treasured rites of summer: the free outdoor concerts at Fort Reno Park in Tenleytown. Unfortunately, I let myself get spooked by the weather forecast for Monday’s show and then had a schedule conflict for Thursday’s show–and now I see that the forecast calls for rain tomorrow evening.
7/9/2025: Google Unpacks Another Round of AI Features, Starting With Gemini On Wear OS, PCMag
SamsI contributed a tiny bit of PCMag’s coverage of Samsung’s latest Unpacked product-announcement event with this writeup of some new features Google announced for some of Samsung’s new hardware.
7/9/2025: Gmail’s New ‘Manage Subscriptions’ Feature Is Here, But It Doesn’t Go Far Enough, PCMag
If I had written about this new Gmail feature only from Google’s announcement of it, this might have been a much more positive piece. But what they rolled out doesn’t come close to helping Gmail users cope with their overflowing inboxes.
7/10/2025: After Elon Musk Says Grok Is Coming to Teslas, the Jokes Drive Themselves, PCMag
Writing this short post took longer than I expected because it represented my belated introduction to the content-embedding feature in PCMag’s CMS.
7/11/2025: Interested in Clean-Energy Tax Credits? The Clock Is Ticking Thanks to Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’, PCMag
Researching this piece felt like doing my taxes, with the added annoyance factor of my knowing that we were never eligible for some of the Inflation Reduction Act’s incentives anyway.
#android #cleanEnergy #ElonMusk #gmail #greenEnergy #Grok #heatPump #InflationReductionAct #IRA #ManageSubscriptions #OneBigBeautifulBill #reconciliationBill #Samsung #SamsungUnpacked #Tesla #WearOS
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Weekly output: Android and Wear OS updates, Gmail’s Manage Subscriptions tool, Grok coming to Teslas, clean-energy rebates and tax credits
This week saw the return of one of Washington’s most treasured rites of summer: the free outdoor concerts at Fort Reno Park in Tenleytown. Unfortunately, I let myself get spooked by the weather forecast for Monday’s show and then had a schedule conflict for Thursday’s show–and now I see that the forecast calls for rain tomorrow evening.
7/9/2025: Google Unpacks Another Round of AI Features, Starting With Gemini On Wear OS, PCMag
SamsI contributed a tiny bit of PCMag’s coverage of Samsung’s latest Unpacked product-announcement event with this writeup of some new features Google announced for some of Samsung’s new hardware.
7/9/2025: Gmail’s New ‘Manage Subscriptions’ Feature Is Here, But It Doesn’t Go Far Enough, PCMag
If I had written about this new Gmail feature only from Google’s announcement of it, this might have been a much more positive piece. But what they rolled out doesn’t come close to helping Gmail users cope with their overflowing inboxes.
7/10/2025: After Elon Musk Says Grok Is Coming to Teslas, the Jokes Drive Themselves, PCMag
Writing this short post took longer than I expected because it represented my belated introduction to the content-embedding feature in PCMag’s CMS.
7/11/2025: Interested in Clean-Energy Tax Credits? The Clock Is Ticking Thanks to Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’, PCMag
Researching this piece felt like doing my taxes, with the added annoyance factor of my knowing that we were never eligible for some of the Inflation Reduction Act’s incentives anyway.
#android #cleanEnergy #ElonMusk #gmail #greenEnergy #Grok #heatPump #InflationReductionAct #IRA #ManageSubscriptions #OneBigBeautifulBill #reconciliationBill #Samsung #SamsungUnpacked #Tesla #WearOS
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Weekly output: Android and Wear OS updates, Gmail’s Manage Subscriptions tool, Grok coming to Teslas, clean-energy rebates and tax credits
This week saw the return of one of Washington’s most treasured rites of summer: the free outdoor concerts at Fort Reno Park in Tenleytown. Unfortunately, I let myself get spooked by the weather forecast for Monday’s show and then had a schedule conflict for Thursday’s show–and now I see that the forecast calls for rain tomorrow evening.
7/9/2025: Google Unpacks Another Round of AI Features, Starting With Gemini On Wear OS, PCMag
SamsI contributed a tiny bit of PCMag’s coverage of Samsung’s latest Unpacked product-announcement event with this writeup of some new features Google announced for some of Samsung’s new hardware.
7/9/2025: Gmail’s New ‘Manage Subscriptions’ Feature Is Here, But It Doesn’t Go Far Enough, PCMag
If I had written about this new Gmail feature only from Google’s announcement of it, this might have been a much more positive piece. But what they rolled out doesn’t come close to helping Gmail users cope with their overflowing inboxes.
7/10/2025: After Elon Musk Says Grok Is Coming to Teslas, the Jokes Drive Themselves, PCMag
Writing this short post took longer than I expected because it represented my belated introduction to the content-embedding feature in PCMag’s CMS.
7/11/2025: Interested in Clean-Energy Tax Credits? The Clock Is Ticking Thanks to Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’, PCMag
Researching this piece felt like doing my taxes, with the added annoyance factor of my knowing that we were never eligible for some of the Inflation Reduction Act’s incentives anyway.
#android #cleanEnergy #ElonMusk #gmail #greenEnergy #Grok #heatPump #InflationReductionAct #IRA #ManageSubscriptions #OneBigBeautifulBill #reconciliationBill #Samsung #SamsungUnpacked #Tesla #WearOS
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The US Public Loves the National Park Service. Trump Is Destroying It Anyway.
Trump is pushing for cuts that could require 350 of the 433 sites run by the National Park Service to shut down.
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Decades of Neoliberalism Entrenched US Inequality. Trump’s Budget Made It Worse.
Factoring in tariffs, the lowest 20 percent of income earners may lose $300; the top 1 percent will be $58,000 richer.
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Decades of Neoliberalism Entrenched US Inequality. Trump’s Budget Made It Worse.
Factoring in tariffs, the lowest 20 percent of income earners may lose $300; the top 1 percent will be $58,000 richer.
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Decades of Neoliberalism Entrenched US Inequality. Trump’s Budget Made It Worse.
Factoring in tariffs, the lowest 20 percent of income earners may lose $300; the top 1 percent will be $58,000 richer.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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