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The Farce in the Republican House
Mike Johnson and the art of kissing ass
It’s two weeks before the government shuts down without a continuing resolution (a temporary fix) to keep it open. And the Republican House is ignoring reality and kowtowing to Trump in the face of yet another embrassing financial catastrophe.
Trump wants a ‘big beautiful bill’ that is really a wish list with no connection to reality. Raise the debt ceiling so he can pass another huge tax bill as a giveaway to the very wealthy, a giveaway that would cost us $4.5 trillion (with a T) over the next five years. This from the great government cost cutter.
It also calls for $880 billion in cuts without detailing where they come from, because it is very likely that they will target Medicaid, which affects one in five Americans. But they won’t talk about that. Actually Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security have long constituted the third rail of American politics and if these goons mess with them they will be in for a shock.
What they passed was essentially a memorandum of intent, not any actual budget work, because the devil’s in the details and they are not good at details. Details are the hard part because their fellow congresspeople will see exactly what gets chopped and they won’t be happy. In other words this big ‘victory’ is nothing more than…
