One Big Beautiful Disaster

Trump's "big beautiful bill" passed the House late last week, and it gives extremely generous tax cuts to the wealthiest people in the country (including Trump himself) while cutting spending on Medicare and Medicaid to the bone. 

Oh yes, and it also permits the President to ignore court orders by removing the right of the judiciary to charge him with contempt of court.  It would also give the executive branch more power over federal elections to rig the vote in favor of his party.  This is the closest thing to an Enabling Act that the House has passed so far.

Speaking of political parties, how did this bill get past House Democrats?  House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries was counting on the narrow margin the GOP had in the lower chamber to allow Democrats peel off enough Republican votes to prevent any extreme MAGA legislation from getting through, but the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (yes, that's what it's officially called), slipped through by one vote - one vote - because Trump was able to (likely literally) twist a few arms while the Democrats were counting on Republican divisions to sink the bill.  It might have failed if Jeffries and his "leadership" team had done more to keep wavering Republicans from Democratic-leaning regions of the country from going with MAGA.  Congressional Democratic leaders aren't fighting for us.  They're trying to keep their rear ends clean.

The bill still has to get through the Senate, and it might not be so easy there.  But not impossible, so the jury is still out.  And any bill that allows Trump to skirt charges of contempt of court will mean that the jury is to be dismissed.  I'll be back later.