? MAJOR BREAKING: Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill has PASSED the House, CHEERS erupt on the floor. 215-214.
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) May 22, 2025
No tax on tips, no tax on over time, border security funding, and other major aspects of the Trump agenda.
Well-done!
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? THE BIG BILL HAS:
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) May 22, 2025
– Funding for ~10K more ICE agents… which would more than double the current roughly 5K for deportations.
– Funding for ~100K illegal alien beds.
– ~$47B for border wall.
– 3K new Border Patrol agents, 5K new customs officers, $2B for signing/retention… pic.twitter.com/LYtxWmzkuN
What’s In The “Big Beautiful Bill”
— OSZ (@OpenSourceZone) May 22, 2025
? Extends 2017 Tax Cuts
? No Tax In Overtime and Tips
? $1,000 newborn credit
? $2,500 child tax credit for families
? Raises state/local tax deduction cap
? Work requirements, For Medicaid
? Increased funding for border security…
After allowing time for the usual Republican grandstanding by Thomas Massie and the Freedom Caucus, House Republicans predictably passed the “one big, beautiful bill.” The Senate also unanimously passed the No Tax on Tips Act which is included in the House bill.
Note: I predicted that budget reconciliation would be used to do a border security/tax cuts package which would make good on Trump’s original promise to “Build the Wall.” I also said that there wouldn’t be a “war with Iran,” that activists would continue making fools of themselves, that Trump 2.0 would start off with a blizzard of executive orders and Trump’s Cabinet picks would be confirmed.
Nothing for the working-class and middle-class schmucks but the mopes in the suburbs of TX, IL, NY, CA, and NJ can write off up to $40K in property taxes on their McMansions on their Fed tax returns now instead of the previous $10K maximum. Oh yeah – people can write off the interest on their $1000/mo car loans and an increase in leases for drilling, mining and logging on public lands.
@Oskar Dirlewanger,
I would add that Trump’s Department of Interior wants to rewrite the Endangered Species Act to removed habitat destruction as a violation of the Act by drilling, mining, and clear-cutting forests.
Dante’s “Inferno” needed a special place in hell for these money grubbing POS.
@November They’ll sell their own mothers for a jewbuck aka “The Man Who Sold the World”(Nirvana’s Unplugged version).
Well, government itself interfering in the market has caused car prices to skyrocket. Obama and Biden’s little girls passed gas mileage standards basically mandating “perpetual motion machines” oblivious to any reality, if not intended to kill the car industry. The reason we don’t have subcompacts anymore is if they don’t average 67 mpg the carmakers have to pay huge fines. I had a small motor scooter in college that averaged 55mpg. They basically want the impossible, so as a result small efficient cars like the 47mpg average Honda Fit are no longer on the market and customers are driving giant SUVs due to light truck loopholes. So these gov’t idiots accomplished the exact opposite of what they intended, moving away from small and midsized efficient automobiles to giant trucks being driven by Bluto wannabees. Also forcing the automakers to put tiny turbo engines that don’t last instead of long standing, 300,000 mile + reliable engines that Honda and Toyota mastered. So what does melting down and replacing cars that last half as long now do to overall emissions? These little girls and soy boys seeking to ease their anxious consciences with “green papal indulgences” never thought about that? How about we kill these autistic green fetish “CAFE” standards and let automakers make reliable, affordable cars people want to buy?
You did call Tom Massie a “Lolbertarian” before, which is not correct. He is solid on secure borders, nationalism, and has been an early and strong supporter of tariffs.
So you lied about Tom Massie once, and now you have done it again. Objecting to a bill that would add $20 trillion to the debt over 10 years is not “grandstanding.”
Massie is the only conservative left in the House. All of the others have followed Trump into the left wing fever swamps. Conservatives always cared about the debt most of all. As Massie pointed out, we are already paying the bankers $500 billion a year in interest. This bill would drive it up over $5 trillion per year within 10 years. $5 trillion in interest alone.
This monstrosity will probably die in the Senate. Ron Johnson said they have the votes to stop it. But if it does pass the Senate, it will be without all those items on bordee security that you imagine Trump
actually wants.
It is no fun watching the country you live in going through death pains, even though you know it has to hapoen, and it is God’s will that it must die. But at least stop lying about people, especially what is actually the only decent American left in The House of Representatives.
Thomas Massie is the best Republican in DC.
“…Conservatives always cared about the debt most of all…”
There’s a problem with this. It’s structural. You MUST have way more debt. Why? The FED makes ALL money. Every single penny. So here’s the problem, if the economy grows then more cash MUST be created or, it will not grow at all. Since all money is created with debt the money to pay off the debt MUST be created…by more debt. I know it’s retarded and you might think,”this can’t possibly be true”, but, it is. You can bet the people in charge of such things know this and they know that without a huge cash flow flood of debt, to make more money, the economy would come to a screaming halt in it’s tracks. The remedy for this is to declare war on every single central banker in the west, and everywhere, shoot them all, or excuse me, collect their suicide notes where they gave all assets to the US government and then write the debt off. From then on create cash based on assets and GDP growth.
This is certainly not a new problem. Back in the day Benjamin Franklin cooked up a scheme in, I think it was Pennsylvania, where the government printed paper money based on land values. So that any increase in land values meant more money. This caused widespread prosperity. It worked great. The amount being fixed to a standard value it neither deflated nor inflated as the amount was fixed to a solid asset. But…the king of England hearing of this and not getting his share of course banned it, collapsed the economy dramatically and it may have been a large factor in the Revolutionary war. Note you don’t hear much, if anything, about this as it would cause confusion as to why we are raping ourselves to the Jewish bankers instead of shooting them all, excuse me, collecting their suicide notes.
As you can see this is reason you CAN NOT pay off the debt and also why you MUST have huge government debts. You have to, to have any sort of ready cash. Anyone who bleats about paying off the debt, is either an idiot or they are lying to you. Under the present system it CAN NOT be paid off. No way possible.
“…Conservatives always cared about the debt most of all…”
BTW President Kennedy made more money without debt issuing silver certificates based on the governments silver reserves and….
Trump is running a big risk of a debt crisis.
Bonds are starting to jitter, first signs of a Crack in debt ?
40 trillion of federal debt is dangerous.
I think that high incomes should have reverted to the previous tax rates because it looks unfair asking ordinary mopes working for the gov’t to lose their jobs but not asking the rich to make any sacrifices as well.
I think Trump is applying the right solutions at the wrong time. These policies should have been implemented decades ago, not now.
There is no wrong time for the right solutions.
That said, what many off and on this board cannot accept is that the American Empire and the fiat American petrodollar currency that is fueling it is about to crash. The Biden administration accelerated this event by weaponizing the dollar against Russia and Iran. Trump understands this better than anybody and is doing everything he can imaginably do to effect a soft landing in the most face-saving way possible.
I am less worried with Trump at the controls than I would be with Biden or some Republican Zio-Stooge like that little rat-faced excuse for a House Speaker, Mike Johnson who wants to do handstands for Muh Israel. And I will go into my points a little later. First a little history to frame the narrative.
When Lincoln decided to go to war against the Southern Confederacy, there was a little matter of financing it. So, he went to the Banksters of the time who wanted to charge him 25 percent interest. Colonel Edmund Dick Taylor, a Union volunteer who had been a businessman suggested unbacked currency which was later known as the Greenback to replace the Treasury notes they had. He argued that businesses would have no choice but to accept the currency issued, because it would actually be backed by the labor of Americans and that would be its value. It worked. People paid their bills with this currency and merchants accepted it in exchange for goods and services.
Lincoln paid the price for it when he was assassinated at the end of the war by Confederate sympathizer, John Wilkes Booth. What the open and shut, case closed investigation may not have made public was what instigated Booth other than his sympathies. His fellow conspirators, all civilians, were tried in a military court and they were hooded and gagged during their trials only to be quickly hanged. I don’t know what that tells you but it tells me that Big Money was also involved in Lincoln’s assassination.
The Union’s Greenback Program was so successful that it would later inspire Hitler to eschew Germany’s own gold-backed currency, as inflated as it was, and issue his own currency also backed by the labor of his country’s nationals. In doing so, Nazi Germany was the only country who rebounded, as Trump would say, BIGLY from the Great Depression afflicting all the Western countries at the time. That, more than anything, is why Hitler, not Stalin or Mao who had many more deaths credited to them, remains the biggest villain of all time. Not any Antisemitic rantings in Mein Kampf but from bucking Big Bank and freeing the Germans from high interest debt.
In any case, this “Big Beautiful Bill” was set in motion by Biden and signed off on by Mitch McConnell and Mike Johnson. Trump intends to wheel and deal to use the money to fund HIS initiatives; the wall, a Golden Defense Dome, a strong energy infrastructure, lots of job creation which will ultimately provide enough revenue to restore the rest of our infrastructure. That way, when BRICS has its way and the American petrodollar is no longer accepted as the world currency, the USA will by then be strong and self-sufficient enough not to need trading partners.
We never really did. We have arable land, we have water, we have oil, we have coal, we have mineral wealth of our own. There is not a damned thing we get from other countries we could not produce here. All these ridiculous trade deals done were to buy the American Empire influence and control over other countries over the years to the point where we gutted and hollowed out our own infrastructure.
Last, but not least, and this is what scares all the Usual Suspects, is that Trump understands the system, because he has benefited by it from the past, been through numerous bankruptcies and negotiated the price he agreed to into something substantially less as in “take it or leave it.” That’s why he’s anathema to several smaller businesses and subcontractors on the East Coast. My second cousin loathes him with a purple passion.
Trump won’t be against defaulting on debt to those who won’t work with him, having figured out, long ago, that it is better to owe millions than thousands of dollars. You owe thousands of dollars and try to negotiate down your interest and, most likely, the banks will refuse to work with you. You either take on additional jobs and work your fingers to the bone or declare bankruptcy and see your credit ruined for ten years. But if you owe millions, it’s a totally different story. Everyone is going to work with you to try to get what they can.
That’s why the “Deep State” had its conniptions when Trump ran for office, saying that he wanted to run the country like a business. Running the country like a business is auditing the books to find waste and grift. Hence, DOGE. It’s also cutting fat, hence laying off employees. Last, but not least, it’s also filing for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy or even total default if your creditors won’t work with you.
The average small businessman, who has to keep a tight rein on his finances, pinching pennies, doing without to make payroll, working sixteen hours a day thinks oh, that means fiscal restraint and balanced budgets. He honestly believes that if he takes a loan from a lender, they actually have hard currency, backed by something of value sitting in a vault somewhere. They don’t. That’s why they panic if there is a run on the bank. The cash is not there.
The businessman is basically taking a loan on what pretty much amounts to the lender’s promissory note and starts paying interest on it. That’s how the lenders make their money. That’s also why the lenders make sure the borrower has the ability to pay them back with interest. That’s why owning a bank is far more lucrative than robbing one.
Mind you, other countries are in even worse shape financially than the United States. If TRUMP defaults on the national debt, the domino effect takes place as one country after another tells the bankers to take their debt and shove it where the sun doesn’t shine. A global jubilee, if you will. That’s what’s at stake here.
‘There is no wrong time for the right solutions.’
It is if it’s ill-timed.
The mark was silver backed in the 1930s, as the the dollar was.
Pension funds and other institutions hold more of that debt than any bank.
Seems to me default isn’t even considered, when they have a printing press. Just keep inflating ad infinitum.
Excellent observations from Clytemnestra. The Booth family were agents of a banking cartel who travelled back and forth between London, with its famous square mile special city, and the US East coast. Booth’s father even penned a letter to Andrew Jackson threatening assassination after he killed the second central bank.
Interesting angle on Trump’s motivations here. I’d give it a 50-percent chance of being more or less accurate.
” A global jubilee, if you will,” followed by a global, paperless currency, oh happy day!!! Oh happy day !!! The mark of the beast, is near and on its way !!!
Any funding for the MIC?
A new golden age has begun for fourth world turd Amerikwa the Kwanstain.
Patriotism is the last refuge for a scoundrel.
Honk honk.
150 billion added to the military budget. Americans aren’t allowed to have high speed rail, new roads and bridges, or reasonable medical bills. Idiot Amerikans believe they are free. Really they are just overtaxed peons fueling the Imperial machine.
‘Amerikans believe they are free.’
Should have known it since ’57 when they pointed guns with bayonets at highschool kids.
Two second world nations, Brazil and Portugal, have full free medical care, even for tourists. Meanwhile the US has the world’s most expensive medical.
Oh, did you known israhell has specialized ambulance service just for stroke and heart attack and other ambulances for general trauma? Paid for at our expense.
Seems that we’re getting the very dirty end of the stick. Small wonder they don’t want us having WHITE National Sociallism where we care for our own people.
Oh, how about the trillions that go to baboon welfare and caging services.
Just another Big Borrow and Spend Bill. George and all the Bush family will be proud.
And precious little is spent on us.
In many ways Trump has been far worse than “activists” warned:
Shaking hands with and praising Al-Qaeda leader Jolani. No one expected such an abject humiliation.
Lending his name to Israel’s plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza – “The Trump Plan”. Sharing an AI video of transvestites dancing in front of a golden statue of Donald Trump after the genocide is complete? Far more outrageous than any “activist” could have imagined.
Undermining the first amendment – “Project Esther” will be used, first and foremost, to target David Duke and Kevin MacDonald.
There is still a very real danger of war with Iran. Israel could bomb Iran and present us with a fait accompli, and Trump’s insistence on “no enrichment” virtually guarantees negotiations will fail.
Trump could still turn things around and have a successful presidency – if, and only if, he frees himself from the control of the Israel Lobby.
Another MAGA unforced disaster.
Goodbye House of Representative control the last two years of that clown’s administration. I am sure MAGAtards will scream, “What can we do? We do not control Congress.”
Not one cut to the DOD budget. DOGE was worthless. Just another ‘feel good’ optics story for conservatards.
The only reason this may not pass is there are a few republicans that actually care about the debt and deficit. It will not be because of the cuts to services for seniors and poor Whites.
If it passes, this tax cut for billionaires will be the only Trump accomplishment, just like in 2017.
EOs going nowhere (which he knew), no Wall, no mass deportations & DOGE was a scam. Where’s Elon anyway? Counting the billions he’ll get if this “big beautiful bill” passes?
The big beautiful tax cut for billionaires on the backs of the working classes and poor was the only reason he bought the election. All of cultural stuff was chum.
Looking at this comment section, I have to wonder…
Does anybody come here to comment who doesn’t hate America? I remember when the creepy, unpleasant faux-Nazi scum was balanced by thoughtful and patriotic Southern or American populists. Apparently, poor Hunter- through no fault of his own that I can see- now has the burden of dealing with only the worst dregs of the miserable, black-pilled internet “right” this side of the Unz commentariat.
Well, at least the articles are still excellent.
Oh, and I absolutely support the Big Beautiful Bill, which beats the pants off any spending bill a president has sent to Congress since I hit voting age under Bush the Lesser.
You shouldn’t confuse hating the criminal cartel known as the US government with hating America, except to the extent that the gaslighted morons actually support the gang running the racket.
Many good comments. Including:
Nightowl: …basically mandating “perpetual motion machines”. I’m gonna steal that.
Nightowl: …seeking to ease their anxious consciences with “green papal indulgences” Dude, you’re brilliant.
It’s extremely possible Trump is a fake Hitler. He says all the things a Hitler would say to get elected, minus pointing out the Jews measure in our misery, but then does nothing or the minimum needed to maintain the facade. The last time the Jews did what they are doing to us, almost exactly the same play book, they got a real Hitler. So this time they got ahead of the game and got their own Hitler before a real one could surface.
By halfway through his last term I was already saying he was the crappiest Hitler since the one featured in the fake-musical Springtime for Hitler (and Germany). Only exceeded recently by the Clown-World Hitler – Yedolf.
Well people, if the donkey party had won, it would be worse, compounded with cacklehead kamala and weirdo walz …….