DGS49
Diamond Member

What’s in Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’?
The House passed the legislation in a 215–214 vote. It now heads to the Senate.
[I apologize if there's a pay wall, but the summaries are all over the place].
The Big Beautiful Bill, while it is reportedly a "thousand pages long" and does have a lot of diverse content, doesn't really do anything that is earth-shaking.
It continues the tax cuts that we have been enjoying for the past several years, adds a few Easter Eggs that Trump has promised to specific constituencies (e.g., tipped workers). It slightly trims Federal spending on Medicaid and food stamps (SNAP benefits), and tightens eligibility requirements for those programs and a few others.
The hyperventilation in Congress and the Media is totally overblown. The work requirements for Medicaid are not only quite reasonable, but won't take effeclt for more than a year - easily enough time for potentially-affected people to get a fucking job.
The Left - which includes 90% of the Media - is evil. How else can you interpret this? They are trying to make people afraid of basically nothing.