July 4, 2025 (165/1461)
No holiday for the assault on American values and common decency. Some parts of the Bully’s Big Bill that you likely aren’t aware of. Beyond the egregious acts of defunding Planned Parenthood, increasing costs for Medicare and Medicaid recipients, and slashing SNAP access for hundreds of thousands of children, veterans, and homeless.
“Creating a slush fund for unaccountable Trump administration overreach. The OBBBA provides nearly $30 billion to immensely expand enforcement and deportation operations of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), tripling its 2024 annual budget. These funds will supercharge lawlessness by an agency that the Trump administration has operated without accountability, causing chaos in communities across the country.”
“Giving Trump’s radical OMB director and Project 2025 architect a $100 million slush fund The OBBBA appropriates $100 million in funding for the White House Office of Management and Budget, led by director and Project 2025 co-author Russell Vought, “for the purposes of finding budget and accounting efficiencies in the executive branch.” Vought is the architect of the administration’s efforts to illegally impound funds, violating budgetary requirements to spend funds duly appropriated by Congress, pursuant to funding laws themselves, the relevant authorizing laws, and the Impoundment Control Act.”
“Gives startup investors an additional $5 million in tax-free income The OBBBA’s “qualified small business stock exclusion” allows wealthy venture capitalists to claim $10 million in income tax-free for investing in certain startup companies. The Treasury reports that over 75 percent of the benefits of this provision flow to millionaires.”
“Diverting public school funding to benefit wealthy families. The OBBBA includes a federal 100 percent tax credit for individuals who donate to private school voucher funds. Private school voucher programs have been shown to benefit wealthy families over those in-need; harm rural communities and students with disabilities; and enable discrimination against students—all without improving academic achievement.”
“By stripping away health care and food assistance from working-class people and undermining production of American-made energy, the OBBBA will increase the cost of living and lower after-tax income for the bottom 40 percent of earners while giving the top 20 percent of earners a $6,000 per year average tax cut. Several lesser-known, yet no less extreme, changes to the bill will further increase costs, embolden the Trump administration’s overreach, and waste taxpayer dollars.”
Always the showman, TOM is looking to bring UFC bouts to the White House. Yup. And we all thought it was just a joke about Musky and Zucky cage fighting. Seems like we’re hailing back to Caesar and the days of Gladiator Games. Next up, a replica of the Colosseum in the Rose Garden. Now TOM might have to let Julio Caesar Chavez back into the country, of course with terms that he has to fight at the White House arena (and win) to stay in the country.
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