Poor Pitiful Senators, Have to Work
After a Week Off for Memorial Day Plus a Travel Day, They're Back ... Sort of
The Senate celebrated Memorial Day as many of us did, with a day off from work. However, being the Senate, they feel they deserve better than the rest of us, so they took the whole week off. Then they came back to Washington, D.C., whereupon the overlords decided in a fit of self-care to take Monday, June 2, off, calling it a “travel day.” Isn’t it nice to have a job that grants you not only extensive week-long paid holidays, but assumes your travel time should be compensated extra? And, no, this isn’t their ample vacation, this is just some much-needed paid time off. At some point this week the Senate should be sitting down to discuss the Big Beautiful Bill (BBB), that is, if they don’t need a month off for July 4.
The BBB is technically a reconciliation bill, a type of complex and time-sensitive legislation that seeks to make changes to the law to address specific budget issues. In other words, if Congress passes a budget that says we have to give $500B a year to support transgender interpretive dance in Transylvania, that money is committed—unless we change the laws to allow us to stop funding it. Reconciliation bills are usually omnibus bills, meaning they typically run hundreds of pages, and they attempt to allow modifications to the budget we already passed.
The BBB is a reconciliation bill because that’s most appropriate for Trump’s agenda, and it also skates around the Senate’s filibuster rules. A reconciliation bill can pass with a simple majority of 51 votes (with the filibuster, you need 60). But all of this legal mumbo-jumbo aside, what’s actually in the BBB? Should we love it or hate it?
The mainstream media is scarcely reporting on the BBB (you can learn a lot about what is important by what the mainstream stenographers do not talk about). The reason they don’t want you to know much about the BBB is that if you knew what was in it, you’d want it.
So here are some of the many interesting things in the BBB.
It implements a dramatic tax cut. If you’re earning between $30,000 and $80,000, you can expect to see your taxes drop by 15%.
If you paid $10,000 in taxes last year, that means you should expect to pay about $8,500 this year—and that’s $1,500 back in your pocket and not handed over to the Democrat agenda.
These are the Trump Tax Cuts, and if the BBB passes, they become permanent. It would be the largest tax cut in American history. (By the way, if the BBB does not pass, expect taxes to go up … bigly.)
Most importantly, the BBB provides for a Golden Dome that would improve our national defense. It also provides money to expand and improve our military, in particular, the Coast Guard and Navy.
No tax on tips. Senator Liz Warren, the DEI scammer and Democrat shrew from Massachusetts, is always screaming about how billionaires need to pay their “fair share” of taxes, but she hates everything about the BBB. I guess she wants to make sure all of those billionaires pay taxes on their tips.
No tax on overtime pay. Again, Liz hates the BBB because she knows how billionaires are gaming the system. Actually, billionaires don’t make overtime. Working people do. The people the Liz Warren Democrats despise the most are people who work for a living.
The border wall gets built. Trump has very rapidly created the most secure border in U.S. history, and the BBB assures the wall is completed, plus it allows for the hiring of more law enforcement (ICE, customs, and border patrol agents). These people protect the border and the BBB is going to give frontline employees a $10,000 annual bonus over the next four years. Considering the grief and punishment Kamala the so-called Border Czar gave them, I wish it was more.
Speaking of taxes, it ups the child tax credit to $2,500 per family.
It cuts Medicaid but before you go all Kamala Harris and start mumbling about being unburdened, it cuts benefits ONLY TO THE 1.4M people who are taking Medicaid but who are not entitled to Medicaid. These people entered the country illegally and claimed medical benefits under Medicaid. We can’t afford to give Medicaid to everyone in the world, and by trimming the program, it assures that Medicaid benefits will be available to citizens who are entitled to it.
Remember Clinton? He advocated that able-bodied people on welfare will be incentivized to work. That quaint notion has since flown out the progressive window, but the BBB brings it back. Funny, what Democrats championed years ago is now poison to them!
It undoes a lot of the Green New Scam, including the electric vehicle mandate. Some people say this is Elon’s objection to the bill, but I can’t confirm or deny this. Just know that the BBB is full of provisions that reverse a lot of the Global Climate Crisis hogwash that’s been forced down our throats. Since most of this money went to Democrat shill companies, it’s no wonder they opposed it. Lot of billionaire Democrats may have to cut back on how many private jets they can own.
Drill, Baby, Drill. It opens federal lands and waters to more energy extraction.
It trims building permitting and regulation that is strangling a lot of our much-needed infrastructure repair and creation of new buildings.
It refills the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR). Biden drained this in an effort to shut down American energy production while, at the same time, keeping the price of gas low. This was a crime, since the SPR exists for emergency use, not so Biden could loot it. (Did Biden do anything that was not intended to destroy this country? I mean that—anything??)
Every government subsidy provided to “green companies” (i.e. Democrat cronies) is annulled. Bye-bye, green grift.
If you are an illegal immigrant, the BBB prevents the IRS from sending your tax refunds to your home country.
There are small business incentives mainly in the form of changes in the tax laws.
Auto loan interest is going to be tax deductible if your vehicle is American made.
It launches a new program called the Trump Savings Accounts. Basically, it sets aside money for every new baby in an account that earns compound interest; kids can tap into the account when they grow up.
There are tax incentives for building new factories in America.
It will impose an endowment tax on our Poison Ivy League schools. Many of these super-pricy and antisemitic institutions are sitting on multi-billion dollar endowments that are tax-free because the elite universities are run as nonprofit organizations. Taken altogether, the Poison Ivy League is sitting on over $192B in endowments—which they enjoy tax free. Harvard alone has over $53B stuffed in their mattress. The BBB will impose taxes on these nest eggs.
Remember Biden’s student loan forgiveness? The Supreme Court ruled they were illegal but Old Man Biden kept giving away our money to the super-rich kids going to expensive schools. The BBB ends student loan forgiveness. If you take out a student loan, that’s between you and the lender—leave the taxpayers out of it. The program also strengthens Pell Grants and reforms the student loan program.
Under Biden, Medicaid had to cover sex-change procedures. Since a person who embarks on gender surgeries becomes a lifelong patient of Big Pharma and Big Healthcare, this puts a huge drain on Medicaid. The BBB does outlaw these procedures, but it says Medicaid will not pay for sex-change procedures.
There is money in the BBB to overhaul our antiquated Air Traffic Control System.
Here’s a controversial item. The BBB requires that dead people no longer be on the Medicaid rosters for benefits. Democrats, for some reason, like to keep the memory of the dead alive by keeping them on Medicaid, Medicare, welfare, and, perhaps most importantly, on lists of registered voters. This Democrat necromancy must end. It’s time the Democrats gave some attention to living people instead of their dead imaginary friends.
If you’re big into 2A, it removes registration and tax requirements for silencers.
It reverses the Democrats’ attack on the gig economy. The Democrats demand that any gig transactions over $600 be reported to the IRS, that’s even if all you were doing is making a little walking-around money on Etsy.
It ditches the “death tax” on family-owned farms which can see a family farm cut up for taxes when the deed holder dies. There are 2 million family-owned farms in America and the Democrats put a target on the back of every one of them. When the landowner dies, the family is hit with such punitive and egregious taxes, they literally lose the farm. Democrats, meanwhile, order more champagne.
And finally, in an ode to Liz Warren, it closes down her beloved Consumer Financial Protection bureau which was basically a team of Gestapo-like bureaucrats who made sure certain businesses got shafted and overlord-adjacent businesses got money. It should have been called the Democrat Donor Financial Protection Racket.
That’s just the important stuff. If the BBB passes, taxes will go down by the largest amount in American history, energy costs will be reduced, you can buy an American-made car and deduct the auto payment interest from your taxes, and we’ll get the Golden Dome for national defense, a new border wall, and get a fill-up of the SPR.
All of that, and we’ll make Pocahontas big mad.
The BBB hurts Democrats—a lot. It undoes the disastrous Green New Deal that Biden disingenuously called the “Inflation Reduction Act.” A lot of Democrats made bank on scam businesses pretending to build eco-friendly stuff and then never delivering. It reduces taxes and Democrats always advocate for punitive taxes on the productive, particularly on the middle class. It strengthens our border and military and it’s going to start taxing the actual rich—like the Ivy League endowments. Liz Warren is on X nearly every day screaming that billionaires must pay their fair share but when she says “billionaires” she means Republican billionaires and the middle class. She doesn’t mean Democrat billionaires, the illegals, or the poor.
Good news, Liz. Billionaires may have to start paying their “fair share,” it’s just we’re starting with the Ivy League endowments. (Liz used to work at Harvard—she got her job by lying about her ethnicity and took in a six-figure salary for a few years for teaching basically one or two classes.)
The BBB secures Medicaid by cleaning it up, it provides much-needed tax relief to the productive class, and it improves our border integrity and boosts our military defense. Plus, it will lower energy costs and make Liz Warren and the other flying monkeys of the Democrat party very upset.
The Senate needs 51 votes to get this passed, which it has if all Republicans vote in lockstep. Voting partisan is not something Republicans are good at, but I think the BBB is a good bill and much needed if we are going to extricate ourselves from this swirling black vortex sucking us right into disaster.
Is it perfect? No. But you decide yourself if you want to pony up 20% more in taxes next year because you believe our government manages our money so wisely.
Now you know why the mainstream media isn’t talking about the BBB.