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I love it that it is almost impossible for any Trump follower to write a full comment without one blatant spelling mistake.
And then they complain when called stupid.

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Make of this what you will.

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Post was removed, but the comments say a lot.

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The cuts to Medicaid are set to kick in around time for the Midterms so guess who they're going to blame?

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Um, the bill isn't law yet. Or did I miss something? I know it passed the final House vote. It's more likely they had grants cancelled. But I could be wrong.

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House passes tax and immigration bill, sending it to Trump’s desk
The legislation, which extends tax cuts and funds border and defense programs, would increase the national debt by close to $4 trillion over the next decade.

Updated
July 3, 2025 at 6:23 p.m. EDTtoday at 6:23 p.m. EDT

By Jacob Bogage and Marianna Sotomayor
Republicans notched their first major legislative victory of President Donald Trump’s second term Thursday, passing a mammoth tax and immigration bill the GOP hopes will reshape the U.S. economy and unwind many of the Biden administration’s accomplishments.

The House, in a 218-214 vote, approved Trump’s self-named “One Big Beautiful Bill,” a $3.4 trillion measure to extend tax cuts from Trump’s first term and implement new campaign promises — such as eliminating income taxes on tips and overtime wages — while spending hundreds of billions of dollars on immigration enforcement and defense. It raises the country’s borrowing cap by $5 trillion, staving off a debt default that the Treasury had warned was just weeks away.

To offset some of the cost of the bill, the legislation cuts about $1 trillion from Medicaid, the federal health insurance program for low-income individuals and people with disabilities, and other health care programs. It reduces spending on anti-hunger programs, including SNAP, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program formerly known as food stamps, by $185 billion.

Nearly 17 million people will lose health care coverage or health care subsidies over the next decade if the bill becomes law, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, and the bill would add roughly $4 trillion to the debt over the next decade, when factoring in debt service payments.

The House vote sends the bill to Trump’s desk to be signed into law in time to beat a self-imposed July 4 deadline. The Senate passed its edition of the legislation Tuesday.

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Republicans heralded the legislation as a boost for the working-class coalition that swept the party to victory in November’s elections, giving it unified control of Congress and the White House.

“It is the principal vehicle for advancing President Trump’s “America First” agenda, unleashing a rising tide of prosperity, securing our border, modernizing our national defense and supercharging energy, agriculture, all the sectors of our economy that our government has kept in a chokehold for too long,” Budget Committee Chair Jodey Arrington (R-Texas) said during debate.

“No one puts a deal together like President Trump. He’s a master. But I think one of the other persuasive things was just looking at the Democrats’ reaction to it,” said Rep. Warren Davidson (R-Ohio), who voted against an earlier iteration of the package. “Maybe the bill is better than I thought.”

But for the lowest-income Americans, the benefits of those provisions are wiped out by the cuts to social safety net programs, and its gargantuan debt impact could slow the U.S. economy, according to independent analyses of the bill.

By 2033, the bottom 60 percent of U.S. taxpayers would be worse off because of the measure, the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton Budget Model reported. The top 0.1 percent of taxpayers — those earning at least $5.1 million — would be more than $83,000 better off.

“This bill is a middle finger to working people,” Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Massachusetts) said on the House floor.

Ultimately, Reps. Thomas Massie (Kentucky) and Brian Fitzpatrick (Pennsylvania) were the only House Republicans who joined Democrats to vote against the measure.

Republicans, citing their own rosy economic growth projections, say that the bill will improve working Americans’ fortunes and that hundreds of billions of dollars of homeland security and defense spending will boost job-creating industries.

Nearly $170 billion in the bill funds the Trump administration’s border and immigration crackdown. The measure imposes $69 billion in new fees on immigrants and visitors to the country. An additional $160 billion would flow to the Defense Department, partially for Trump’s proposed “Golden Dome” continental missile defense system.

The legislation would make permanent a trio of corporate tax deductions that make it easier for companies to invest in research and purchase new equipment while rescinding more than half a trillion dollars in clean-energy programs from President Joe Biden’s 2022 Inflation Reduction Act.

Many of the tax proposals changed as the bill pinged between the two chambers of Congress. The House passed legislation in May that had a smaller debt impact while cutting less from Medicaid.

The Senate swiftly overhauled the measure, making it simultaneously more expensive and more punitive toward Medicaid recipients. Republicans used the budget reconciliation process to bypass a Democratic filibuster in the Senate; that meant when the upper chamber sent its approved legislation back to the House, the lower chamber was unable to alter it and still beat Trump’s deadline. Amendments would have restarted many of the cumbersome processes needed to pass tax legislation on party lines.

The Senate made the corporate tax cuts more generous and temporarily preserved some of the climate credits. On health care, it imposed strict limits on taxes that states charge medical providers as a roundabout way of collecting more federal Medicaid dollars.

That prompted concern among some lawmakers about the fate of rural hospitals, which rely heavily on Medicaid patients.

The Senate’s changes managed to frustrate both ends of the House’s GOP conference. From the center, moderates raged about the approach to health care spending.

“I’m not happy with it at all,” said Rep. Greg Murphy (R-North Carolina), a practicing physician. “That’s horrible policy.”

From the right, lawmakers grumbled about the bill’s debt effects. A group of budget hawks in April extracted a promise from Johnson that the amount in tax cuts would not exceed the amount of spending the bill cut.

“It wasn’t achieved. It was failed,” Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) harrumphed. “The Senate failed.”

Members of the archconservative House Freedom Caucus circulated a three-page memo with a list of nearly two dozen deficiencies with the legislation at a Wednesday meeting at the White House.

“Leave it to the Senate to find a way to aggravate both the moderates and the conservatives in the Freedom Caucus,” said Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-New Jersey), who had concerns about cuts to health care programs. “That’s extraordinary that they did that. That is a real art and science to be able to aggravate everyone in the House. We had a really good bill, a good work product, got everybody on board, and they just had to play with it.”

That White House meeting, though, seemed to be enough to unify Republicans.

Mariana Alfaro, Liz Goodwin, Theodoric Meyer, Paul Kane and Emily Davies contributed to this report.

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They won’t even realize that their lives are more (expletive) with this bill. As soon as it takes effect all republicans and Trump will divorce themselves from this bill. They passed the 2017 tax cuts which were awful and continue to be and they think that it was Biden or Obama’s. They passed the PPP loans and they blame Biden. Then they’ll blame the stimulus checks for inflation but at the same time believe that Trump did it with his own money.

There is no reasoning or logic just vibes.

The WaPo won't let you use FaFo or the word "porn" in a comment. Just a point of information.

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This is the state of Oklahoma.

[Owendonovan]

I think I'll eventually feel bad for these people, not yet.

[ponchi101]

But that is the crux. Tiny is not doing anything that was not expected.
You are a frog, and you accepted the scorpion on your back. Your responsibility.

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15 children are among the dead from Texas flash floods as rescuers search for the missing

By JIM VERTUNO, JULIO CORTEZ, JOHN SEEWER and HANNAH FINGERHUT
Updated 8:12 PM EDT, July 5, 2025

KERRVILLE, Texas (AP) — Rescuers scoured a devastated central Texas landscape of mangled trees, overturned cars and muck-filled debris Saturday in an increasingly bleak mission to locate survivors, including 27 girls who have not been seen since their camp was slammed with a wall of water in a historic flash flood.

The flooding in Kerr County killed at least 43 people, including 15 children, and six more people died in nearby counties.

Authorities still have not said how many people were missing beyond 27 children from Camp Mystic, a Christian summer camp along a river in Kerr County where most of the dead were recovered.

The destructive, fast-moving waters rose 26 feet (8 meters) on the Guadalupe River in just 45 minutes before daybreak Friday, washing away homes and vehicles. The danger was not over as torrential rains continued pounding communities outside San Antonio on Saturday and flash flood warnings and watches remained in effect.

Searchers used helicopters, boats and drones to look for victims and to rescue people stranded in trees and from camps isolated by washed-out roads.

Gov. Greg Abbott vowed that authorities will be relentless and work around the clock to rescue and recover victims, adding that new areas were being searched as the water recedes.

“We will find every one of them,” he said.

More rain fell around Austin, and a massive search continued in the nearby Hill Country.


At least three people died and 10 others were missing in Travis County, home to the state capital. Another fatality was confirmed in Kendall County, and two people died in Burnet County, where a firefighter was among the missing after he was swept away by floodwaters while responding to a rescue, county Emergency Management Coordinator Derek Marchio said.

Kerrville City Manager Dalton Rice said 43 bodies had been recovered so far in the devastated Hill Country: 28 adults and 15 children.

Authorities were coming under scrutiny over whether the camps and residents in places long vulnerable to flooding received proper warning and whether enough preparations were made.

The hills along the Guadalupe River in central Texas are dotted with century-old youth camps and campgrounds where generations of families have come to swim and enjoy the outdoors. The area is especially popular around the July Fourth holiday, making it more difficult to know how many are missing.

“We don’t even want to begin to estimate at this time,” Rice said earlier Saturday.

Raging storm hit camp in middle of the night

“The camp was completely destroyed,” said Elinor Lester, 13, one of hundreds of campers. “A helicopter landed and started taking people away. It was really scary.”

The raging storm, fueled by incredible amounts of moisture, woke up her cabin just after midnight Friday, and when rescuers arrived, they tied a rope for the girls to hold as they walked across a bridge with water whipping around their legs, she said.

Frantic parents and families posted photos of missing loved ones and pleas for information.

On Saturday the camp was mostly deserted. Helicopters roared above as a few people surveyed the damage, including a pickup tossed onto its side and a building missing its entire front wall.

Among those confirmed dead were an 8-year-old girl from Mountain Brook, Alabama, who was at Camp Mystic, and the director of another camp just up the road.

The flooding in the middle of the night caught many residents, campers and officials by surprise.

AccuWeather said the private forecasting company and the National Weather Service sent warnings about potential flash flooding hours beforehand.

“These warnings should have provided officials with ample time to evacuate camps such as Camp Mystic and get people to safety,” AccuWeather said in a statement. It called the Hill Country one of the most flash-flood-prone areas of the U.S. because of its terrain and many water crossings.

Officials defended their actions while saying they had not expected such an intense downpour, the equivalent of months’ worth of rain for the area.

U.S. Rep. Chip Roy, whose district includes the ravaged area, called it a once-in-a-century flood and acknowledged that there would be second-guessing and finger-pointing as people look for someone to blame.

“There’s a lot of people saying why and how, and I understand that,” Roy said.

“We still have people coming here looking for their loved ones. We’ve had a little success, but not much,” said Bobby Templeton, superintendent of Ingram Independent School District.

People clung to trees and fled to attics

In Ingram, Erin Burgess woke to thunder and rain in the middle of the night. Just 20 minutes later, water was pouring into her home, she said. She described an agonizing hour clinging to a tree with her teen son.

“My son and I floated to a tree where we hung onto it, and my boyfriend and my dog floated away. He was lost for a while, but we found them,” she said.

Barry Adelman said water pushed everyone in his three-story house into the attic, including his 94-year-old grandmother and 9-year-old grandson.

“I was having to look at my grandson in the face and tell him everything was going to be OK, but inside I was scared to death,” he said.

Locals know the place as “ flash flood alley.”

“When it rains, water doesn’t soak into the soil,” said Austin Dickson, CEO of the Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country, which was collecting donations. “It rushes down the hill.”

‘Nobody saw this coming’
The weekend forecast had called for rain, with a flood watch upgraded to a warning overnight Friday for at least 30,000 people.

“We know we get rains. We know the river rises. But nobody saw this coming,” said Kerr County Judge Rob Kelly, the county’s chief elected official.

The county had considered a flood warning system on the river similar to a tornado warning siren about six or seven years ago, but Kelly said the idea never got off the ground and the cost would have been an issue.

Kelly said he was heartbroken seeing body bags at the funeral home and the devastation on the ground during a helicopter tour.

“The rescue has gone as well as can be expected. It’s getting time now for the recovery,” he said. “And that’s going to be a long, toilsome task for us.”

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Cortez reported from Hunt, Texas, and Seewer from Toledo, Ohio. Associated Press writers Susan Haigh in Hartford, Connecticut, and Susan Montoya Bryan in Albuquerque, New Mexico, contributed.


https://apnews.com/article/texas-floods ... 2568c354c0

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MAGA having a real normal one in response to the tragic flooding in Texas

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