Big beautiful bill clears hurdle, expected to be on President Trump’s desk on Friday
The Senate passed President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill”. Vice President JD Vance casted the tie breaking vote needed for it to go forward. It returns to the House, where Republicans are expected to clear the final hurdles for the bill to advance to Trump’s desk. One of the many things that this bill would do is require able bodied people on federal assistance to meet the minimum work hours requirement to continue to receive their assistance. Democrats voted against this bill.
From Fox News:
Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” is crammed with his and congressional Republicans’ legislative priorities, including billions for the Pentagon and to bolster the White House’s border and immigration agenda, the permanent extension of his 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, deep spending cuts and an effort to reform Medicaid.
Senate Republicans have pitched the bill as a way to both turbocharge the economy and as a means to prevent Trump’s first-term tax cuts from expiring. They have simultaneously used it as a vehicle to achieve deep spending cuts in the neighborhood of $1.5 trillion.
But Senate Democrats have railed against the package for the millions it could boot off of Medicaid and the trillions it could add to the federal deficit.
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released two sets of scores Saturday and Sunday that reflected both current policy and current law. Under current policy, the bill would tack on just over $507 billion over the next decade. But under current law, the package would add roughly $3.3 trillion.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., countered that when it came to spending, Senate Democrats were being hypocritical.
“I’ve been here a long time,” Thune said. “And I’ve not been involved in a single spending debate and fight in which Republicans were trying to spend less, and Democrats were trying to spend more, with one exception.
“And that’s national security,” he continued. “Democrats are always willing to cut defense but never want to cut anywhere else.”
Additional Reading:
Miller, A. (2025, July 1). Senate passes Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ after marathon vote-a-rama. Fox News. Link.
White House. (2025, June 29). Myth vs. fact: The one big beautiful bill. Link.
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“The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released two sets of scores Saturday and Sunday that reflected both current policy and current law. Under current policy, the bill would tack on just over $507 billion over the next decade. But under current law, the package would add roughly $3.3 trillion.”
What The Actual F*ck does that mean? Talk about your fuzzy maff, that even beats out toilet paper and paper towel package maff.
No matter what the fook it means, at the end of the day the taxpayer will be stuck with the “bill” and nothing is going to change. The Uniparty is alive and well and Kongress Klown Kritters are spending America to death.
Prepare
Saw your post on the LoTT thread.
I’ve reached my limit of civil words to-day, Reb.
Another generation doomed so we can live in the here-and-now. I wish somebody had mentioned this in The Good Book so many’v these fools
sweartaqiyya upon.Purely disgusted with it all myself, Good Sir. The Founders of this Great Republic weep at what We, The People have allowed to happen. I’m not concerned for myself, my time is much shorter than it has ever been and getting shorter. I am concerned for my for daughter (45yo), my Grandson (20 yo), and my Grand Daughter (16 yo). What kind of country will they live in when they are my age (72)? Will they curse my memory for not doing more to prevent what their world became? Our very learned and eloquent friend TL Davis has some interesting thoughts on all of this. Well worth the three (3) minute read.
Prepare
https://tldavis.substack.com/p/must-we-all-be-criminals-then
James Madison’s nightmare come true, there is no way to stop it, the leaders are too fraught with self import.
The House was $3,360,000,000,000. The Senate tacked on another $507,000,000,000. They rounded it up to $4,000,000,000,000. Three Repub Senators voted against it, Paul, Collins and Tillis.
Tillis was relatively unknown before the vote and now he says he is quitting. He was kind of an old school constitutional moderate. Liberal on a few social issues but conservative on most everything else.
We all know the Government set fires to piles of cash each and every year. Will this bill make things better or worse? Impossible to tell because the future variables are too many to count. Every politician and taxpayer has things they’d eliminate tomorrow, but have the same number of things they’d never cut a red cent.
You have the head of the Fed refusing to lower rates because he’s a dick, and he’ll do anything to hurt Trump policies regardless of public’s needs.
That sums up DC in a nutshell.
I don’t know if he is a dick. He was appointed by Trump but his mandate is to run the economy smoothly. I’m pretty sure he was waiting to see if this bill would pass and in what form. To make a rate change before that would be premature and foolish.
Right now the economy has defied every economist expectation and is doing awesomely great. This makes Trump look like a genius and them look like chumps. However; this huge tax cut bill combined with an energetic economy will likely cause inflation by increasing the money supply. Cutting the interest rates would very likely make inflation worse.
That said, by far, most economists are anticipating the economy will tank and a two point rate cut will occur within 12 months. The banks are currently cutting CD rates in anticipation of this. But that won’t happen unless the economy dips. Remember Greenspan always said that the in job of the Fed was to lean against the wind, not blow the house down.
I’ve heard (don’t know how accurate it was, maybe someone can shed some light) that Thune failed to fire the Senate Parliamentarian who is blocking the removal of illegals from Medicaid. I’ve also see reports that removing suppressors / short barreled rifles from the NFA was also removed.. sounds as if the spineless rino’s are at it again..
They were doing the hokey-pokey with tax stamps. Last I heard they were in again. They could have pulled them out today; but I doubt it, it wouldn’t change a single Senate vote.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5374948-senate-gop-gun-silencer-short-barrel-rifle-fees-gop-megabill/
Carl Higbe on NewsMax just mentioned the NFA still has the Suppressors and shor barreled rifles on the list thanks to I forgot her name already.
Yeah, still the paperwork nutroll but the $200 tax itself is gone. This is due to the appropriately named (shooting you the) Byrd Rule that requires bills be devoted to a purpose. This is a tax bill not a gun (and accessory) control bill.
But the NFA is a tax bill.
The tax on suppressors is still in the law, it is just set at zero. It can easily be raised in subsequent legislation. The gun haters would like to ban them or make the tax stamp fees so high and the paperwork so onerous few will apply.
I’ll take it. I’ve already paid Uncle Sam four figures for no reason. Ill take this opportunity to fill in my collection.
The D-rats have a lot of chutzpah whining about adding to the national debt. These congress-rats were all onboard with the six trillion Gropey Joe and his band of ho’s added in only four years, which was mostly absorbed by their legions of grifters and fraudsters.
The party that isn’t in power ALWAYS complains about the debt.
Then when their hand is on the purse strings “abracadabra”, *poof* no more debt problem, gotta spend it like you stole it.
Winning… more to come at signing. (Lars, comments?)
Ow! Ow! You said you would use lube you son of a bitch!
I find it hard to see this as ‘winning’ when the pitch was to reduce the debt, and this adds trillions to it.
So, sure, some conservative legislative agendas are funded, but at what cost? If that’s a win, it’s a pyrrhic one.
Said every opposition party member on both sides of the aisle for the last 25 years.
One thing at a time. He is already taking care of illegal immigration, so maybe next year. If not, ……..
Anyway, I have not seen any actual definite numbers yet (an innocent oversight, no doubt), so I will wait until I get something a bit more concrete that I can compare to last year.
‘Tis passed the House… Lars should get ready to scream, cry and make comment:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/house-gop-clears-key-hurdle-075405529.html
Anon – join me in thanking Hakeem Jeffries? Without him and his tireless (tiresome) efforts, the vote may have been closer.
Ideed– thanks, Hakeem!
Showing everyone the length of the last dong he guzzled.
I have no confidence in the proposed budget and would prefer to force them to operate on a quarterly limit until some provision is invented that will let Americans read these things before the reckless, feckless, derelict House of Cards and more destitute Senate can commit anyone to anything that goes 10 years into the future.
At a minimum, every member of congress needs to sign a sworn statement that they have read the damned thing, under penalties of perjury. Then there needs to be a period of public comment during which registered voters may challenge the representatives of their respective districts.
In the event that a representative cannot demonstrate a competent understanding of the bill then they will not be able vote on it.
Congress is obviously no in a hurry to ever get this thing done but Voters can put some fire under their asses by ceasing to pay them until they bring their “accounts” current.
Surely there are better ways to think about this than leaving it up to the cretins who have so done very badly with it.
“I have no confidence in the proposed budget”
Amen. “Man proposes, God disposes”.
*”The Stars and Stripes Forever” playing in the background*
Ooooh, sweet, sweet schadenfreude, liberal heads exploding en masse, sounds even sweeter than fireworks!
And yes, a thank you to the “Dollar Store 0bama”, Hakeem Jeffries, who caused a few more to vote for it!!!