Legislation Abomination
AKA The Big Bucket of Bullshit
Congressional republicans have done their job.
They can go home now and never set foot in the Capitol again.
Why would they? They were sent to Washington to do one job and one job only: slash taxes on the morbidly rich—again.
Yesterday—without a single Democratic vote—the republican congressional majority delivered on its promise to the pretend president to have his “Big Beautiful Bill” (its actual name) on his desk by today.
The now-law accomplishes the largest legalized transfer of wealth and creates the most significant debt increase in U.S. history.
It takes money from 90% of Americans like you and me who need it and hands it to the richest one percent who don’t.
It strips 11 million people of their health insurance, causing 16 million Americans to lose their healthcare.
Thousands of senior citizens will lose access to nursing home care.
Millions of children will go hungry due to food assistance funding cuts.
Greater New York Hospital Association President Kenneth Raske explained:
It is hard to identify a bill over the last few decades that does more damage to the American health care system than the Senate reconciliation bill. The bill cuts health care funding by a mind-numbing $1 trillion. In New York, we estimate that 1.5 million individuals will lose coverage. Cutting health insurance eligibility doesn’t stop people from getting sick and ultimately going to the hospital. But it does skyrocket hospitals’ uncompensated care costs.
North America’s Building Trades Union (NABTU) President Sean McGarvey added:
We are especially outraged, because all of this, all of these job losses for hardworking Americans, is being done for one reason only: to make room for more tax breaks for the wealthiest corporations and individuals in America.
Oh, and remember all that talk around election day about “inflation”? It was all the corporate media could obsess about. (Well, that and Joe Biden’s supposed “mental unfitness”). The talking heads in the for-profit billionaire-owned media industrial complex did not dare call inflation what it really was—post-pandemic corporate greed—lest it send shock waves through board rooms all across the business ecosystem.
The 34-count convicted felon and adjudicated sexual assaulter promised to end the “inflation nightmare”. That same convicted felon and adjudicated sexual assaulter promised tariffs would “drive prices down and make America affordable again”. He promised to pay off the national debt.
Millions of voters were—again—taken in. Despite adding $8.4 trillion to the national debt during his first term, millions believed the economy that was booming under former president Biden would be better under the tax cheat’s purview—again.
The tax cut to the economic royalists en route to the felon’s desk is about to blow a $4 trillion dollar hole in that debt republicans always pretend to care so much about when a Democrat is in the White House.
We will also now have to “get used to” more masked brown shirts kidnapping innocent people off the streets since the bill funds Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) better than most countries’ entire military.
If we were planning on taking advantage of green energy subsidies guaranteed under the Biden-era Inflation Reduction Act, better act now, as in today. This legislation abomination will phase out many tax incentives.
The bill also takes a meat axe to the national infrastructure that was getting a massive boost under the Biden administration.
Referring to the bill as “a direct attack on working families, shoveling tax breaks to the rich while turning its back on the people who power this country,” International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) President Kenneth Cooper said:
Make no mistake, this bill will cost hundreds of thousands of good-paying construction jobs, billions of work hours, and hundreds of billions in lost wages and economic benefits to America’s middle class. IBEW members and every average American will pay the price as congressional Republicans abandon critical investments in American infrastructure and the energy independence they have been tripping over themselves to take credit for the last few years.
Vt. Sen. Bernie Sanders—who needs no introduction—slammed the bill, exclaiming:
Make no mistake about it: This bill is a death sentence for working-class and low-income Americans.
And for what? The Republicans are inflicting all of this pain on the working class in order to hand out a $1 trillion tax break to the top 1% and a $900 billion tax break for large corporations.
Sanders added:
Every Member of Congress who voted for this disastrous piece of legislation must pay a price at the ballot box during the next election. They do not deserve to be re-elected and they must be defeated.
Well, now that they’ve given their billionaire donors exactly what they paid for, there is no need to be in Congress anymore. Republicans obviously aren’t there to represent the voters who sent them to Washington.
As Rep. Jasmine Crockett explained after the bill’s passage:
Republicans didn’t pass this bill for the people. They passed it to please Trump, protect the powerful and push cruelty disguised as policy.
Happy Independence Day!