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Carl Selfe's avatar

The CBO errs greatly in its analysis of the Big Beautiful Bill. Their starting point misses $1.5 trillion in the first 2 years.

1) First CBO overlooks that the first 2 years will be impacted by budget additions with no offset until the 2028 tax year. The annual deficit will be $2.5 trillion over each of the next 2 years. They estimated those deficits to be $1.8 and 1.7 trillion, instead of $5 trillion that must be borrowed at higher interest rates than CBO uses.

2) CBO uses 3.5% interest on Treasury bonds. That is far below the 4.91% that we current “enjoy” due to falling worldwide buyer-investor confidence.

3) CBO says inflation will be calculated at 2% when it now 2.4%. Tariffs will hit inflation hard!

4) That is how they get to saying hogwash like $2 trillion ADDED over 10 years.

5) CBO did not tell you they are talking about ADDED to their $52 Trillion estimate for 2035.

6) They see $54 trillion as our total outstanding deficit in 2035. I see $56 trillion if Republicans cut $13 trillion with the Big Beautiful Bill.

We need a tax cut like we need a hole in the head. The fiscal irresponsibility is unfathomable. Republicans have lost their minds.

https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/the-25-trillion-annual-deficit-plan?r=3m1bs

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Heather Bowler's avatar

Great information, thank you for posting it!

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Michael Krieg's avatar

All the Republicans in Congress and the Administration are RINOs.

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Elizabeth J. Sampson's avatar

Well they certainly aren’t democrats. Your point?

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Michael Krieg's avatar

My point is these people are fake Republicans who have stolen the GOP.

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Heather Bowler's avatar

Crypto is nothing more than a money laundering scam!

Leo—well sunshine is the best disinfectant.

Trump only ran to stay out of jail and is now insulting at the end his locked up. But manipulating laws, unconstitutionally, to ensure he’s never measured for a jumpsuit, and thinking we’re all stupid. All Masterminded by the Cretan Steven Miller, who IMO — is too small for a jumpsuit, just use a can of RAID! He’s a bug in need of squashing!!

As a woman—no man, legislative or otherwise, get a say of what goes on between my legs without an invitation!! We’re not going BACK!

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S H's avatar

I think his portrait is quite appropriate. Dark, menacing, destructive. Perfect for his "legacy".

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Elizabeth J. Sampson's avatar

He doesn’t look stupid enough in the new portrait.. like everything else—he is lying.

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Donna ascah's avatar

Hope they take it down in shame but it IS history. One of the distasteful parts

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Cat Hair Magnet's avatar

I have a young, newly married friend in Arkansas who is now choosing not to have children because of the reversal of Roe v. Wade and the heinous new laws that keep popping up. The GOP claims that birth rates are down and they’re trying to offer ridiculous incentives to get people to have children, but it’s not gonna happen while they’re passing these horrid laws. If you want couples to have children, support them in pregnancy, support them in childbirth, support them in raising their young children.

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P Andrews's avatar

Sorry for the typo. He sits in the Oval Office as a convicted FELON not DELI. I hate auto correct.

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Jean Conley's avatar

No need as far as I'm concerned. We all know what you meant!!!!!!!!!!

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Elizabeth J. Sampson's avatar

A 34 count felon who eats too much deli (fat boy); a felon who’s big as a deli.

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Leilani's avatar

Can you sue the psychophants for crimes against humanity?

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Leilani's avatar

So sorry Popok for your loss of yiur dear Mother ❤️ 💙 💜

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Dr. Dauna Crooks's avatar

Sorry for the loss of your mother. Thank you for what you do!

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Fawn Ortega's avatar

Makes sense now that MTG is against something in the BUB that data regulation is being challenged somehow? I still don’t understand her reasoning, there has to be some self serving reason because she was insider trading.

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Carol D Marsh's avatar

My sympathies - it's hard to lose a parent.

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Amanda Reiche's avatar

Donnie’s portrait looks to be a twin of Don Imus at the end of his generous life—doubt our president will generously fund a hospital facility benefiting inner-city dwellers!!!!! But he ‘could’ do this and have a legitimate legacy——NAH…

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Julie Barrett's avatar

Thank you for explaining in regular English how the law effects us daily especially as it refers to DJT and his minions.

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Siatuvai Smith's avatar

That tells us something with $signs they are thieves and crooked criminals.

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Gina Goulart's avatar

Sorry for your loss Popok. You and Meidas Touch are always spot on. Keep up the good work 💪

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drbilldean@gmail.com's avatar

The Police State is Coming

Alex Karp, Peter Thiel, JD Vance, Curtis Yarvin are names you may or may not recognize but they are behind the scenes creating and privatizing a Fed database that is committed to produce a civilian surveillance system using AI eliminating loss of civilian privacy Illegal? Hell yes!!! How to create a vast civilian database so they can manipulate us

The above cast of characters are the minds behind this system that will have the potential to corrupt elections for good since they will have the data on all of us From the “burn it all down and start over” Yarvin to financier Thiel and government supporter and idealogue Vance to Karp who oversees the Palantir software, they all are playing the role as participants in trying to turn the US into the Third Reich And they’re acting fast….blitzkrieg if you will

With the use of the AI Palantir software the techbros are on a path to create a technoauthoritarian surveillance state meant to destroy the democratic republic and install their 21st century Nazi style of governing

But AI is a scam meant to veil the sinister underpinnings of this movement which they claim is Christian Remember “We tolerate no one in our ranks who attacks the ideas of Christianity. Our movement is Christian.” Adolph Hitler 1928

Americans can do something about this by standing up and protest protest protest against this government takeover This is the way WE the People defeat fascism and this kind of fascist takeover Join the Resistance Lab

See https://bit.ly/3FGOreX Stewart interview of Cadwallader

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Jean Conley's avatar

Actually, the police (Nazi Germany) state IS here already.......

Thanks for your info.

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Virginia Brooks's avatar

I saw that interview yesterday. Scary stuff.

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Jo Lucie Trafford's avatar

recently learned about a section of the Budget reconciliation bill. It is labeled Section 70302. This provision would severely restrict federal courts’ authority to hold government officials in contempt if they violate judicial orders. Please talk about this part of the bill. I have tried to contact some of the Senators. I called Susan Collins because I am from Maine. I also called Josh Hawley and talked to someone in his office. Ditto John Thune. When they asked if I was from their state I said I was a citizen of the United States. I told them not to vote for this bill because of that provision.

This needs press. If you have not already discussed this, please give it some attention.

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Jo Trafford

Portland Maine

https://campaignlegal.org/update/these-hidden-provisions-budget-bill-undermine-our-democracy

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/column-how-an-obscure-budget-provision-could-upend-judges-contempt-power-2025-05-29/

https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/109768/what-does-sec-70302-of-the-big-beautiful-bill-actually-do

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TS Jackson's avatar

I thought I saw someone was talking about removing it. I think it was the AF lawyer.

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