♦ Some people just can’t take a win. For the “I need to be outraged” group I would suggest their best time for complaining would be to join the collective association of the tech crew (Musk/Thiel), the alligator emojis (DeSantis/Cruz Crew) and the CONservative free traders (Massie, Paul, Roy). That group of always unhappy, whining and never satisfied knuckleheads will welcome the griping, bitching and moaning.
However, that doesn’t work here. We have a big win to celebrate.
♦ The Senate version of the previously passed Big Beautiful Bill cuts more spending than originally delivered from the House. You might ask why then did spending opposition narratives surface now and not when it passed through the House? Good question, we’ll get to that ‘political answer’ in a moment.
For now, the BBB is on track as it was originally planned (by July 4th); albeit right at the outer limits of the predicted timeframe that was announced in January.
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The Senate BBB passed on a 50-50 vote split, highlighting it was the most conservative bill that could possibly squeak through the Senate. It is the culmination of MAGA interests -vs- MAGA opposition, with the biggest win being the $70 billion for border security and ongoing deportation operations.
The original plan was always to use rescission bills to cut out the DOGE waste. Per Senate rules, the rescissions/cuts cannot be done until after the initial funding bill is passed (that’s BBB). Timeline: July – BBB, Aug – Rescission bills to cut DOGE waste {examples}, and Sept – FY 2026 Budget bill which begins October 1st.
Additionally, the narrative about the Senate bill including Medicaid spending for illegal aliens is false.
♦ The ban on Medicaid for illegal aliens is actually stronger than initially thought [See page 602. Section 77109]. As noted by Senator Schmidt, “the bill actually goes much further than the house version – beyond banning Medicaid for 1.4 million illegal aliens, it: • Requires states to verify citizenship status before providing coverage • Bans automatic Medicaid enrollment for children of illegal aliens • Excludes DACA from Medicaid.”
♦ This brings me to the “political opposition” aspect.
The declared “spending opposition” to the bill is actually a cover narrative for those who demand expanded immigration (Wall Street) and stand against border control and deportation.
They are angry about the immigration enforcement aspect but must remain quiet about it because so many Americans support the border security part. So, the CONservatives and Tech bros attack based on spending, but that’s really just a Mick “Cantaloupes” Mulvaney maneuver.
In addition to destroying the “Green New Deal” fiasco, the Big Beautiful Bill gives $70 billion to President Trump to secure the border and get rid of criminal illegal aliens. The border security money is needed to exit the illegal aliens who Obama/Biden imported. Money for more ICE agents and repatriation flight costs.
The border wall needs to be finished and all measures to ensure the total lockdown. Trump is securing the border, the first step in any immigration reform effort. This was Ronald Reagan’s biggest mistake. If congress now wants to discuss what comes next after the criminal illegal aliens & Biden illegal aliens are removed…. with a secure border, that conversation is now possible.
♦ Spending? Congress and the media have a vested interest in hiding the truth from the American public because factually everything in the BBB is fully funded. I know, I know, many people are saying, “wait, fully funded? How is that possible?”
Here’s the part everyone keeps missing. Within the global trade reset President Trump has established a baseline 10% tariff. That means from this moment until the end of time every country will pay a minimum of 10% tariffs on every single import. Even if they get a free trade agreement (FTA) with the U.S. the baseline 10% remains, just like the U.K. deal recently completed.
Yes, steel and aluminum and other targeted tariffs may exceed the baseline 10%, but the baseline will always remain at 10% for everything imported. There will never be an item delivered to the USA that does not include a 10% baseline tariff.
That baseline 10% tariff revenue -in perpetuity- funds the BBB spending and all of the associated middle-class tax relief within it. Tariff revenues create a neutral state of spending impact. This fact is why and how the White House convinced the House and Senate on the deal.
In material fact, even a future Democrat political apparatus will never be able to discontinue the 10% baseline tariffs because they will be dependent on the revenue generated. Tariff revenue makes spending possible, that stops Democrats from withdrawing it. In a way President Trump has lowered the income tax burden by shifting revenue to tariffs.
Elon Musk is a disgruntled Tech Bro who: (A) doesn’t like tariffs; (B) is worried about the new visa reviews and H-1B limits under Marco Rubio; (C) angered about the elimination of his Green New Deal subsidies; and is (D) directly attached to and dependent on China. Plus, wait to see the value loss in Palantir if Trump and Putin strike a deal. Musk is an evil person.
There is a massive amount of winning within this deal. Just remember, the better something is the more the opposition will use all the tools and puppets at their disposal to keep you from realizing its value.
CNN asked me “Why is @ElonMusk wrong about the Big Beautiful Bill?”
My answer. pic.twitter.com/lKoNeNTWrz
— James Fishback (@j_fishback) July 1, 2025
Big wins today.
Huge.
We’re only five months in….
Thank you, Sundance!
A bitching sailor is a happy sailor
When they turn quiet and speak in whispers and give the skipper the “eye”, there is a strong indicator that the skipper has lost the trust and support of the crew.
Bitching sailors are no picnic either. I employ a couple hundred people. The happy people are the ones who do great work, are excited to talk about it, and are largely oblivious to the bitching. (often, surprised by it)
My kids played in a youth orchestra for many years. I always loved the way the conductor would respond to problems the kids raised:
what have you already triedmove to solution
Bitching was not allowed and generally ignored.
So-called “conservatives” have conserved nothing in my entire adult life. I’m so done with the “conservative movement”. MAGA is not conservative as the latter is historically defined.
Constant complaining is tedious because most of those people just want to complain while others do the heavy lifting.
I would rather be around can-do, hard working, try/try/try, positive people than the constant whiners who would never have a nice thing to say. Never.
Of course, they are perfect and have all of the solutions, yeah right.
The main objection I have to the disaster is that it was written back when the world was still under the terrorist threat of nuclear annihilation.
That threat was eliminated {see footnote B2} from existence ten days ago.
People supporting this insanity have to pretend not to know things…
300 LEO’s…
Multiple helicopters with snipers…
FBI…
Against one twenty year old with a SHOTGUN !!!
THIS ^^^^^^^
Is what YOU are supporting with this “bill”.
A Government that cannot “afford” to make it’s own Lincoln Pennies out of copper…
Does not deserve a single ONE of them in “Revenue” !!!
In God We Trust
{All others pay cash}
Trust God
Fear not
The copper in an old-style penny is worth about 2 and 1/2 cents. Sure, the government could make them and take a loss, but why would they?
Currency has nothing to do with a return on investment. Based on your position, the government should close itself. BTW a dime costs more than 10 cents to make. This is to get you to accept a digital currency which costs practically nothing to make.
yea, the govt should close itself. Nuke DC
“a digital currency which costs practically nothing to make.” And they can make infinite amounts in seconds. And they can freeze yours in seconds. NO to government digital currency.
They charge transaction fees to you for your access to crypto.
Ponzi scheme ; a currency must exist in order to lessen the dangers of tyranny .
Currency debasement has more to do with that then anything else.
The US dollar has lost some 97+% of its value to inflation since the Federal Reserve was created.
Why switch to a ” currency ” that you have to pay to access that which you already own ? Sounds like something the moneychangers came up with .
then make them out of steel as they did during WWII.
The response was excessive – they like to show great force and do not much.
Yes, I have observed this behavior in the workplace.
On X, Sundance listed attendees at Sea Island. It is worth your time to revisit the list. They are not on our side.
Great couple of weeks for for our President and, more importantly, the country.
Feels like a giant hurdles have been cleared. Great way to go into Independence Day Weekend. 🥳
A glorious 4th of July. All we need now are some traitors in jail
“Musk is an evil person.”
Amen to that!
I was taken in (for a while, but taken in nonetheless) by Elon Musk and his fan boy act with President Trump. Eventually though the act wore thin and we who are always looking/listening saw his mask slip. Musk’s infamous tweet about the H-1B visas was the last straw for me.
Thank you Sundance for keeping all of us focused. You are – simply put – brilliant.
When I heard that he and Peter Navarro had a kerfuffle that is when I knew that he was being unprofessional and angry aggressive. Then he had an ugly interaction with Scott Bessent.
I think that he was disrespecting PDJT’s Economic Team.
They way he speaks disparagingly about PDJT tells me all that I need to know about who he is.
Trump and Musk disparage each other, neither one looks very mature doing it.
PDJT punches back at those who punch him. He is very gracious as long as you are also being gracious.
Most Republicans are RINOs, they don’t punch back. They are willing to take the abuse and lose, as long as they get a little share of the MONEY.
At this point I think he’s really revealed his character…
We knew he’s had a very broken relationship with his father = red flag.
We knew he has a dozen or so ‘baby mamas’ = red flag.
We knew he’s an absentee father with just about all of them = red flag.
We knew that just a few months ago another woman appeared out of the woodwork to complain about no child support = potential red flag (as she seemed somewhat sketchy, but still not a positive optic).
We knew there were allegations of drug use = red flag.
We knew his tweet about H1B visas was bizarre = red flag.
We knew his threatening tweets to PDJT were bizarre and beyond the pale = red flag.
And finally, his assault on the Secretary of the United States Treasury, which may have resulted in getting that black eye, lying that it was from tussling with X = red flag.
So, there’s a clear established pattern. Time to completely cut him off before something worse happens.
I think the cord is severed.
Musk being impetuous and aggressive make his brilliance doubly concerning.
I’ve read both versions of the bills and I must say, it sure did take a lot of sugar for that medicine to be shoved down everyone’s throat and barely anyone, questioned the medicine.
Wait till the new Senate version comes out (which none will see) and what they whittled away.
There was a reason Lindsey Graham released it early and why it was read on the senate floor on Sunday, it wasn’t to stall time, it was designed to fool everyone. Ask yourselves, when was the last time that’s happened? Never!!
President Trump has no idea what’s in the bill except for the things he wanted, that’s it.
Gonna be a lot of angry people who will be talking about wool or something.
Sundance already prepped the stage for your arrival.
Here, Here
Congratulations, you have been the subject of a Sundance post. See bullet 1 of his excellent post.
While I did not run out of Winnamins, I did run out of wine to wash them down with…off to the store for some non tariffed, big and beautiful, 100% American Cab (although from a blue state) 🙁
There are conservatives & MAGA in “blue” states, too.
Yes….there are many more than our debased voter rolls would indicate.
When WNY developer Carl Paladino ran against Andrew Cuomo in 2012, Mr. Paladino won most of upstate, except for a few of the larger urban areas.
If NYC would be split off from upstate, the (D) party would not have much of a chance outside of some urban area races.
It was only the NYC vote that gave Cuomo the win. We do not know the extent of the voter fraud that occurs there.
Cuomo did not want fracking the Marcellus shale upstate because it would have resulted in a massive economic boom and accompanying population growth that voted (R).
So the fracking ban was esconsed into the state constitution under the false premise of “protecting the environment “.
This practically guarantees the (D) party will have a monopoly in securing statewide offices.
We do exist! NJ and NY are filled with us. We just can’t outvote the crooked city machines.
Thank you! I would love to leave but circumstances don’t allow it now or will they ever? Idk…
Johnson needs to get the ducks in order to get this done, arm twist ala Lyndon Johnson style, whatever it takes.
my disappointment is them removing the HPA and the SHORT Act.
The NFA of 1934 and its progeny are unconstitutional and need to be removed/repealed.
Had our chance and now it’s gone.
wyn: Dangling rumors about relaxing or removal of firearms regulations is an old trick. All the pro-2A and anti-2A politicians get to make noise, cheer, or complain, and then, nothing happens.
^^^^ YEP. Now we wait for cases to percolate up through the courts….AND, hope SCOTUS hears them and rules Constitutionally on them.
Nope. It could happen next session. It’s not like this was the only attempt ever and it’ll never be tried again.
Sundance and folks on this site need to take notice what happened today at the Big Cypress Preserve in the dynamic Florida Everglades and about 50-60 miles East from where I live.
On Tuesday, President Trump raised his prior battles with DeSantis directly, indicating the relationship has been repaired. He even joked DeSantis would make a strong replacement for Jerome Powell, the chair of the Federal Reserve whose term ends next year.
“You’re my friend and you’ll always be my friend,” Trump said to DeSantis as he kicked off a roundtable after taking a tour of the detention facility. “We may even have some skirmishes in the future, I doubt it. But we’ll always come back because we have blood that seems to match pretty well.”
Asked by reporters about the relationship, Trump joked that he “didn’t notice” the tangling they got in during the election. He described the relationship with the governor as “a 10 — maybe a 9.9 because there might be a couple of little wounds. I think we have a 10. We get along great.”
“We had a little off period for a couple of days, but it didn’t last long,” Trump added. “We have a lot of respect for each other.”
Trump’s Florida new detention center visit marks the first time in years that he and DeSantis have made a joint appearance. It’s time to deal with it because President Trump has and I might add that the probability or likelihood of Trump giving Gov. DeSantis a job in his Administration early in 2027 is very high.
Trump has learned to play the political game when needed.
PDJT can speak in nice terms about someone if the two of them can find common ground and get what needs to save the USA done. Public flattery really does mend relationships even if for a short term project.
I noticed RDS wasn’t clapping with the others as word came that the BBB had passed.
Glaring omission.
leadership 101 identify your replacement and prepare them.
I bet POTUS has a real pen waiting, it will be something to watch….
Sore loser Shumer had to get in one last-minute swipe, by stripping the title, “Big Beautiful Bill” to simply, “The Act.” Sheesh.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/schumer-forces-name-change-big-beautiful-bill-moments-before-passes
The petty, neutered Senator from Palestine will soon be just another piece of dog excrement to kick off of America’s boots.
He needs to eat some of his raw hamburgers.
What about the changes from the unelected deep state agent LIZ MacDonough?
The GOP has a majority in the Senate, but somehow allowing this unelected bureaucrat, Elizabeth MacDonough to dictate policy:
You are allowing a Parliamentarian
to dictate what goes into Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ legislation.Somebody explain this.
https://x.com/i/status/1939905914397671692
It sounded to me like a maneuver by Thune to stay in his paymasters good graces, but avoid the optics of weakening President Trump’s BBB by shifting blame to this Parliamentarian, of whom I have never heard until a week ago…
I heard of her under Biden when she was preventing some of the dem garbage. I now think she’s just the whipping boy!
Not entirely sure that’s an automatic plus.
Automakers have to build to California’s ridiculous regulations due to the potential number of sales and it not being worth making a California and “rest of the country” model.
Now, imagine California passes a law requiring all AI operating in California, even if the main database is in Texas, requiring Woke standards be used for all training models. Just like with Europe’s digital services tax, companies are going to have decide between implementing those standards or banning service within California.
The original restriction in the bill was only that the states could not implement regulations, not that the federal government couldn’t impose them.
It could be good (California isn’t the heavyweight it once was), it could be bad (enough upset TechBros might love offloading responsibility for anti-MAGA code onto California politicians so they get what they want and others take the blame for it).
As President Trump has often said, “We’ll see what happens.”
And Texas passes a law prohibiting the use of woke for training models. Cali can go suck an egg.
California’s every chicken has to have it’s own bed law effected the whole country.
“AI” (which is nothing more than probabilistic, stochastic, statistical pattern matching that finds patterns in the mountain of data already created by human intellect) is about to collapse on itself because future model iterations are just going to ingest its own slop. It creates nothing new at all. The tech AI bros are LYING about the future capabilities because achieving something that can reason, think, understand context, etc…, if that is possible at all (I do not think it is, IMHO), cannot be accomplished by throwing more compute at stochastic pattern matching algorithms. While people might be wowed when they first load up ChatGPT (otherwise known as glorified autocomplete) or DALL-E (which works the same, but with pixels) or that stupid Google Veo (creepy, uncanny video generator) – the wow wears off quickly when they discover it’s not nearly as useful as advertised. I don’t want code that’s less than 80% accurate out the gate when I can just go to Stack Overflow and get it right (with supportive human commentary). Other developers are quickly figuring it out as well. In the not so distant future, I sense investor lawsuits and investigations a-la-Enron. We are all being deliberately mislead about “AI”
“We are all being deliberately mislead about “AI” “.
I agree. IMO you wrote an excellent summary of AI.
To me, AI vaguely resembles the climate computer models predicting the end of mankind.
In the future after the close of this dispensation of grace, I see nothing about AI controlling things in the book of Revelation, etc.
Ephesians 3:2-5 KJV
If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward:
[3] How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words,
[4] Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ)
[5] Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit;
There is the issue of “the mark of the beast”; however, the beast and false prophet are not AI.
And we are not all going to be done in by a giant asteroid or nuclear war, either.
I think AI will be part of the surveillance state, that’s where it will play a role in the End Times.
Agree ; tech AI bros are just looking for the next money stream .
If the Fed can say a state can’t regulate AI then they could have said a State can’t regulate/infringe on the 2nd amendment. Yet they did not.
I agree. I’m not sure if it’s in this article, however, somewhere I read that the proposed BBB ban State on regulations was partially in response to this new educational model/paradigm:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rayravaglia/2025/02/10/alpha-school-using-ai-to-unleash-students-and-transform-teaching/
Amen Sundance!
A “W” is a “W”!
It could have been Kakkling-Kammy up their casting the final death blow to America.
Get f****n’ happy damn it!!
😋😁😋
Kind of like a Cubs fan flying their Big Beautiful “W” flag….
Go Cubs Go!
Go BBB Go!!
Go President Trump Go!!!
I heard Chuck Schumer agreed on this Bill to send it to the house
and nothing is codified so the no taxes on tips and overtime goes away in ’28
another wait to see what we get
Huh????
Ugh.
Cuck Schummer took out BBB in the title, it’s now called “the act”.
If they pass it in a bill I believe it is codified. Executive Orders are the thing easily discarded.
<I heard Chuck Schumer agreed on this Bill to send it to the house…>
To hear that…
You would have had to be a fly on the wall 🙂
Meanwhile, Barry and Little Bush attack President Trump for ending USAID.
Most expect BO to oppose Trump on wiping out the toxic USAID crew.
But it is Little Bush who can’t be kept away from a camera when he wants to attack Trump.
Little Bush couldn’t be kept away from other male cheerleaders when he went to a rich boy New England boarding school.
Laura Bush couldn’t be stopped by traffic devices. That’s why she rammed and killed another high school kid in Texas.
And speaking of Little Bush, his girl Jenna couldn’t be stopped from airing her plumbing in public to change undies in a Texas parking lot after her Knix presumably couldn’t hold that much water. Classy crew. Did she ever cop to showering with Daddy, like Amber Biden did?
Anyone tired of winning? Raise your hand.
I’m tired from trying to keep up with all that President Trump has accomplished in the last 5 months.
Seneca! I had not seen you comment in a while and hope you are well dear friend. Was about to send out an SOS.
Hey there Bucknut guy- thanks for the shout out! I am still around, not going anywhere; however, life in Realville has been pretty crazy as I will start to share on these pages once again. We are fighting the good fight, trying to organize MAGA NY. NY is not really a Blue Commie state after all- take a look at a map of our counties.
Rumors Scott Pressler might be moving your way….
I live in West Seneca. Is there a website for this MAGA NY?
Amen to that!
There are several poster above that are tired of winning but not tired of whining.
That’s a nice take! Thanks for the short take on this. I look forward to more analysis as you have a chance to read thru it.
Praise The Lord they got the Attempted Intelligence free for all disaster out of the Senate Version.
Sen. Blackburn really surprised me. This is may now be the most palatable spending Bill I can remember in 33 years since Pops got me interested in El Rushbo. I see Tillis voted Yea for AI..
There you are! Have missed you here and there!
Something about that FL water…same with my Dad…
Dad made me build a fence with him around the 3 acres in the Summer of 92 at the first house we moved to in SE Idaho in 1990. I heard Rush over the speakers of our ‘83 Dodge Ramcharger parked in the field next to where we toiled.
Both my parents grew up Military Brats to Officers and Pops was a gig worker before it was cool so we moved every 3 years or so until I was 12.
Would Anti Trust Laws be applicable here? Maybe to spread the nexus of power out a bit? Wishful thinking is a speciality of mine.
Did the protections for self replicating mRNA mutation jabs make it through unscathed?
Admittedly underinformed regarding AI’s potential for good and for bad within this BBB. It needs to pass, anyway for so many positive reasons.
But whatever evil may descend upon society down the road, it doesn’t really matter right, as long as the foreign import tariffs completely pay for our destruction. No looking under the rug can be tolerated. Look, an evil squirrel named Elon!
Sundance – THIS 10 YEAR AMNESTY Was MY HARD –> NO !
GLAD It’s Up to the States.
( AND WATCH for ” The End Around ” during Finalization of the Bill – HAT TIP to MIKE DAVIS and the Patriots that Hit the Phones ! )
https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/a-big-beautiful-bill-provision-to-prevent-states-from-regulating-ai-for-10-years-got-nixed-by-the-us-senate/
https://rumble.com/v6vl9in-we-lit-up-the-senate-mike-davis-takes-victory-lap-on-defeating-ai-amnesty-9.html?e9s=src_v1_sa%2Csrc_v1_ucp_a
I was unaware of this…As I am sure a lot of folks were, with our great “mainstream media”…
Bravo Sundance!
The ban on Medicaid for illegal aliens is actually stronger than initially thought [See page 602. Section 77109]. As noted by Senator Schmidt, “the bill actually goes much further than the house version – beyond banning Medicaid for 1.4 million illegal aliens, it: • Requires states to verify citizenship status before providing coverage • Bans automatic Medicaid enrollment for children of illegal aliens • Excludes DACA from Medicaid.”
This is the part that scared me===
Thank you Sundance—Media crap even from media one trusts can be scary.
Another thank you for you, Sundance. The best explanation I’ve read and you have nailed down the opposition to the bill. It is not about all the spending that all of Congress had previously voted for, but it is about the stuff they don’t like. Just wish these people could be honest and maybe put US citizens first. Trump is the first President in my lifetime that truly wants to help everyone, particularly the poor and middle class that just want to work and make an honest living. He is a true populist and has shown he is smarter than most if not everyone else.
Maybe sit this one out?
Elon?
No, it was a reply to a comment that has been removed. Someone whining about the bill and which side to join (winners vs whiners). Not sure why my response didn’t disappear when that post did.
But tell Elon it applies to him, too. Maybe he should move to Mars.
You must have posted your comment at the exact same time as the other comment was deleted. It happens maybe once in a hundred times. 🙂
Many, many thanks to our amazing Sundance for providing one of the best, most coherent and easy to understand explanation of the role that tariffs play with regard to the BBB!
I don’t know why it is that none of the super well credentialed politicians, economists and financial geniuses couldn’t explain it as nearly as well. If they had, there would have been no problem getting it passed.
Instead they just kept feeding the confusion and hysteria.
God bless Sundance and President Trump- two of our greatest heroes.
President Trump is transforming this country into the powerhouse it USED to be. The bad guys, who hate America, and only use it for their own purposes, will try and stop him, every single step of the way. If you’re not supporting President Trump and his mission to Make America Great Again, then you are un-American. The End.
And those ‘Un Americans’….”must not rise again”….
I sincerely hope that Johnson has been working hard these past weeks to “whip” the House GOP members to just pass this bill as is.
Make even one change, and it goes back to the Senate….and this time that harridan Murkowski will vote “no”. Or the Turtle will. Or both.
Take this win. It really IS a big one!
The leader of the House Freedom Caucus was all over Fox proclaiming that they are a NO. As usual.
That’s why it was so brutal that the Dems stole those late House seats this past election. We have GOT to stop voter fraud somehow, some way!
The counting that goes on and on and only ends when the democrat is declared the winner. It’s ridiculous.
Excellent!!! What a great POTUS and a super team he’s built around him!
Who’s the current House Parliamentarian?
Look, I’m for passing the bill for the win. BUT, I’m sick and tired of the lip service given to the deficit spending and the debt ceiling. If we are going to go Keynesian, then let’s all have everyone that is on board with that just say so. Musk, Massie, et.al., have a point, and have been pretty consistent. I know, I know – grow the economy and the spending doesn’t matter! Except it does. An no one, and I mean no one of consequence, wants it to stop.
Now, there are three and a half years of POTUS Trump’s term left. The Pubbies have another 16 months to figure it out or screw up again and give the loons the keys to the kingdom. Let’s see if the “Pass it now and we PROMISE we will cut spending later,” crowd actually has the balls and ovaries to do it. I sincerely doubt it, and that’s not because I’m a negative thinker. I’m a student of history. And history over the past 60 years has taught me that the political/corporate class want what they want, and they don’t give a damn about anyone else.
So you would have thrown out all the good just so you could feel better about the “bad” stuff not getting passed? I would have been highly ticked off at having to pay considerably more in taxes….
Did you even read what Sundance wrote? The tariffs compensate for the feared spending/deficit. In fact, that is how the Republic used to be funded… tariffs.
East began by saying he supported passing the bill. Yet you say he wants to throw out all the good to feel better. Not sure what exactly you’re observing but it was disconnected from reality.
Geez… I completely missed the very first part of the post!
Very sorry, EastTNRenegade.
Sorry, I stopped at you post and responded. Thanks, I appreciate it.
That’s not what I said at all. I’m sick of the dishonesty about dealing with deficit spending and booming debt. As for tariffs, we’ll see. Continuity of policy is what matters. Right now, yes, the tariffs are a win. But politics change at the drop of a hat. I am hopeful that Trump sets the table so that future leaders can make the run and finish what he has started. All it takes is a weak president (and many are) to turn back the clock on progress that Trump makes.
I concede that the price for this progress is likely deficits for the foreseeable future. But, the bill will come due and our children will have to pay it – in treasure, in blood, or both.
Without a doubt, one of the greatest Presidents of this nation.
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
I shoulda scrolled.
<I shoulda scrolled.>
I could have scrolled all night…
I could have scrolled all night…
And still have begged for more. 🙂
I watched 99% of the BBB voterama (yes overnight). I don’t sleep much anyway. I am. 3 -5hr sleeper.
It was painful to watch the Dems trying to come up with amendments to send the bill back to committee. Doom and gloom statements about medicare and medicaide that tried to sound different but saying the same thing. Very cringe worthy.
I am afraid there will be holdouts in the house..
MTG is a major dissenter. Searching for the perfect only means failure.
The AI section was stripped from the bill but that was not enough for MTG. Now she has come up with several other issues. I like her but she is really feeling her oats. We could end up with nothing and a huge increase in taxes among other things if she keeps this up. This is Congress, Not her private business where the outcome of a failed deal will only affect her. Failure to pass the bill will effectively hurt everyone , even those she feels she is working for.
There is a lot of good in this bill, along with some not so great things. I hope cool heads prevail and we take the major wins in this bill.
It is going to be a rocky couple of days.
This is the Big Kahuna! When the Speaker delivers this to President Trumps desk.. the Trump Train goes immediately into Overdrive. Get on board or get outta the way, cause it’s coming fast and picking up speed! 🚂. 💥🇺🇸💥🇺🇸💥
Retired Magistrate here: I am thrilled that President Trump’s tax cuts will be made permanent, that there is money for border security and money to deport dangerous illegals, getting rid of tax incentives for electric vehicles, no funding for Planned Parenthood, no taxes on tips, funding for rural hospitals and other items that will actually benefit citizens.
Is it a perfect bill, of course not; however, I am hopeful that the House can get the bill reconciled quickly and get it to President Trump for his real signature before July the 4th.
when has there ever been a perfect bill? Politics is the art of what is possible. We got what is possible, which is FAR more than we would have had under a disastrous Harris/Walz administration. I will gladly take my Winnamins on this one!
Democrats will brag about how their opposition made sure the Big Beautiful Bill came out President Trump promised.
Politics has zero Principles.
“We have a big win to celebrate.”
But the chickens haven’t hatched yet. The House has yet to vote on what is now the Senate bill.
Thank you Sundance for another clear and concise explanation of current events.
King Solomon would have to hold President Trump’s beer!
If hypothetically he drank beer 😆
What they aren’t telling the rules committee has a 9R-4D. A no vote by one gop member is meaningless. You need 3 gop no votes.
Thanks for explaining it so that people will finally understand, Sundance!
Not tired of winning! 😀
“Some people just can’t take a win. For the “I need to be outraged” group I would suggest their best time for complaining would be to join the collective association of the tech crew (Musk/Thiel), the alligator emojis (DeSantis/Cruz Crew) and the CONservative free traders (Massie, Paul, Roy). That group of always unhappy, whining and never satisfied knuckleheads will welcome the griping, bitching and moaning.”
its remarkable watching this supposedly “MAGA” board turn so cleanly to advocatin g for Truimp wins instead of advocating for that which might keep america from collapsing, whoever gets the W. and increasingly, openly demeaning.
there are a whole bunch of very reasonable objections to the BBB. the most obvious of which is that it is yet another spending spree with loads of pork that will not fix what is about to happen. it takes none of the real obligations and oncoming economic cliffs seriously. at all.
perhaps the average age of this board leans to those who will not be around when it happens… but i am probably younger than y’all, and circumstances notwithstanding, the debt bomb WILL occur in MY lifetime, and my childrens. this is not what i voted for, but i was already pretty cynical about how much that counts.
my entire political life i’ve heard that we should take the context and circumstances into account when deciding what policy to enact – and i am not deaf to that. but who here thinks there is another super-Trump coming right after him, with a super majority of patriots (note – NOT republicans) who will actually tackle any hard problems? when is this “we’ll clean it up next time” that i keep hearing about? spoiler alert: THIS IS the next time.
that said, since i am pretty skeptical of our odds as a republic surviving much longer, the best thing i can say is that it still contains a bunch of provisions so i can buy suppressors and other gear without being on a fascist ATF/DOJ list. that stuff is a helluva lot more valuable than all the dollars we are about to print.
Amazingly Spectacular ! ! !
Nice. Great read!
Bigly.
I already contacted my House Rep and told him to get’er done
Thank you
you made feel so much better
Yes I’m very thankful I’ve should known TAW (Trump Always Wins)
Musk is very unstable like a loose cannon 4 sure.
With the passage of the BBB, the Trump Administration is now at escape velocity. It is now impossible for the Democrats and allied teeth gnashers to pull down or block the President’s agenda in his term. This is the juncture, where news segues into history. We have to stay vigilant, of course, but his promise is being fulfilled. MAGA
America endured four years of occupation by a hostile power intent on destroying our history, values, heroes and everything we hold dear. That hostile occupying force was the Biden administration.
I’m trying not to be giddy about what’s happening now under President Trump, (like BBB morphing from build back better to Big Beautiful Bill), because I’ve been jaded by all the criminals and grifters who gave each other presidential medal of freedom awards in a White House surrounded by chain link fences and razor wire.
I’m also nearly Trump’s age and this much winning might give me a heart attack!
So I was in a quandary until I listened to some of Kamala’s speeches about how she’s ‘unburdened by what has been’ and how she’s never been to Europe or our southern border and I realized that might have been our 47th president!
That did it! I’m giddy again!
God Bless President Trump.!
I certainly know how to take a win and I will keep taking the wins for as long as they keep coming.
For those of you who insist on whining and crying because the BBB isn’t perfect-may we nickname each one of you Eeyore? It seems to fit.