Separate from the headline, clearly so since these are gentlemen as seen by the cut of their jib, per reporting: Senate Republicans pass Trump’s sweeping policy bill, clearing major hurdle | US Senate | The Guardian -
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The vote for passage came just after noon on Tuesday, and required the vice-president, JD Vance, to break a tie that resulted after three Republicans joined with all Democrats in voting against it.
In a joint statement, the speaker, Mike Johnson, and the House Republican leadership said: “Republicans were elected to do exactly what this bill achieves: secure the border, make tax cuts permanent, unleash American energy dominance, restore peace through strength, cut wasteful spending, and return to a government that puts Americans first. This bill is President Trump’s agenda, and we are making it law.”
Hogshit! But Johnson is right about what he did not directly say - it gives billionaires yet more tax avoidance ammo, a bonanza for them in the class war the wealthy have been waging over decades against THE PEOPLE.
And in detail -
[...] It funds Trump’s plans for mass deportations by allocating $45bn for Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facilities, $14bn for deportation operations and billions of dollars more to hire an additional 10,000 new agents by 2029. It also includes more than $50bn for the construction of new border fortifications, which will probably include a wall along the border with Mexico.
To satisfy demands from fiscal conservatives for cuts to the US’s large federal budget deficit, the bill imposes new work requirements on enrollees of Medicaid, which provides healthcare to low-income and disabled Americans. It also imposes a limit on the provider tax states use to fund their program, which could lead to reductions in services. Finally, it sunsets some incentives for green-energy technologies created by Congress under Joe Biden.
Because of the tax break for the rich the deficit grows larger.
JD? His vote was the 51st. Putting the abomination across the finish line,
JD used to have a future, but now, just one more like the opening pictured three.
Who votes for assholes like that? Lame brains? The rich of course. But, who else? And why?
The suspicion is it's the other party's fault, for being butt stupid and abandoning workers. The rhetoric even changed to Schumer's "two in the burbs" false math.
But cut some slack, the other party has wealthy donors too. THEIR MAIN CONSTITUENCY.
So --- Look at the "revenge" those white Trump voters got from their Trump of the United States. What they deserve.
Drive a pick-up truck for Jesus; all that. This as their payoff. And they earned it.