It passed. I don't know how it passed despite the odds, especially with the narrow majorities the Republicans have in Congress, by the awful Trump budget and tax bill passed.
To say this bill is bad is a gross understatement. It makes the 2017 tax reform bill look like New Deal legislation by comparison. It could have gone down in the Senate, but Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) went down on Trump (yes, I went there as soon as she got assurances that Medicaid would be spared the worst cuts in Alaska. She said the bill was awful but voted for it in hopes that House Republicans would improve it, but they were just as eager to blow Trump as she was. (Expect more R-rated puns as this blog continues; this is the real world. If you want wholesomeness, join the Osmond family.)
The result is a tax and budget law far more obscene than the jokes in the previous paragraph. It makes deep cuts to Medicaid, it decimates veterans' benefits, it practically gets rid of food stamps, and oh yeah, it also restricts the judiciary to rein in the executive branch. And it gives huge tax cuts to billionaires who don't need them (you know their names; I won't repeat them). This law pretty much destroys, decimates, and completely demolishes America as we know it. And it's going to be damn near impossible to put it all back together by the time the Democrats regain control of anything in Washington (not likely to happen any time soon).
This is way I support secession. The country is beyond repair, and it makes more sense by the day to arrange for a national divorce and spilt the Union into separate countries. The lack of government services or anything resembling a government at all makes it all the easier. As for me, I spent this past weekend in Montreal specifically to avoid being in Donald J. Trump's America on Independence Day. Expect me to be out of the country next Independence Day and every Independence Day for the foreseeable future.
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