Representatives in the Senate claim to have 4 issues with this Big Beautiful Bill.
After narrowly passing in The House Of Congress, it's off to the next vote where each state regardless of population has 2 Senators. In DC, they have a fun little process called Reconciliation. This is an expedited process for bills poised to implement policies embedded in a Congressional budget resolution. These bills could be introduced, debated and held to a vote on their own merit but that's not fun.
Guess when this process was first used. 1980. Yeah. The first year that the John Birch Society tried to take the Oval Office. Well would ya look at them now.
Using Reconciliation will allow them to do very patriotic things without inconvenient obstacles like a filibuster. Mr. Smith is no longer needed in Washington. Passing it with a Simple Majority should happen sooner than later.
Now you're not gonna believe this but The American Petroleum Institute has been doing their happy dance to the music of oily freedom spilling from this bill's current pipeline to the President's desk. While they have on red hats, why not gift us with a clause in the bill. Something like ending the previous administration's tax-credits for clean energy products. I'm no economy-ologist but I wonder if it's relevant that stocks decreased an average of 27 percent between 3 solar outfits. The drops came in lower for several more. A 30% federal tax credit is also removed for folks that installed solar panels on their rooftops. Industry leaders expected a reasonably expected pace to these actions for some reason.
I don't know about you, but I seem to always have an electric company that does this whole peak service thing where when it's mega hot in the Summer afternoon, you'll actually pay for electricity if you'd like to run that air conditioner. A collective of analysts with the Rhodium Group took a little peeky poo at the bill saw that we could be paying an additional 7 percent on our bills on top of those peek hour costs if your company has that program in place.
Now let's go back in time.
When I was a young warthog, I loved reading the whole News Tribune in Tacoma every morning. One morning, I saw that Clinton signed off the Welfare To Work bill. Well... His fellow friend Jeffery is about to stomp a fresh pair of golden sneakers in those footsteps. Ya see, some very important people took a look at a previous census and found that among the people utilizing programs like Medicaid and SNAP aren't spending enough time at the capitalism factory. Requiring folks to work more to prove they are deserving isn't the only effect we're going to see.
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Let's go to ABC News 13
A Virginia couple work together caring for two adults with intellectual disabilities. They can only do this through a program funded by Medicaid. The couple tells at that the bill could force them to relocate after building a strong relationship of understanding with the folks that care for.
QUOTE: "We've gotten to know them and we know their triggers, their likes, dislikes, so it would be very sad if the program was cut and they were moved someplace else". The non profit, Encircle could face insurmountable budget issues once the bill is implemented.
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