One, Big Beautiful Bill (The Mega-Bill)

[acptulsa]

Keep digging, Thomas. I'm betting there's some caravan funding in there too.

 

[Occam's Banana]

https://x.com/Liberty_Xtreme/status/1938490179850805285

The “Republicans” in the Senate just removed The SHORT Act which would remove Short Barreled Rifles, and other such guns from the NFA.

You are at war with the people you elected. It’s always the Republicans like @JohnCornyn who are coming for your gun rights.

These are the same serpents that want you to remove Thomas Massie from office.

 

[familydog]

I love that all the people who shat on this bill from the very beginning are whining and complaining that all these good aspects of it are being removed.

 

[acptulsa]

I love that all the people who shat on this bill from the very beginning are whining and complaining that all these good aspects of it are being removed.

It obviously couldn't pass until they were. And it'll destroy the currency and turn us into Zimbabwe regardless if we get thrown a few bones or not.

So, when are you going to stop supporting it? Even if every single good thing is gutted from it, can you drop it before Trump does?

 

[Occam's Banana]

I love that all the people who shat on this bill from the very beginning are whining and complaining that all these good aspects of it are being removed.

 

[familydog]

Hey, embrace the buffoonery, I say.

 

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[Voluntarist]

Current status in the Senate (holdouts and near-holdouts)

Rand Paul (Kentucky) ... NO on the BBB (no links needed - he's been consistently against it for months)

Thom Tillis (North Carolina) ... NO on the BBB as it is, and will vote against the motion to proceed

Ron Johnson (Wisconsin) ... NO on BBB

Susan Collins (Maine) ... NO on the BBB as it is, but will vote for the motion to proceed

Josh Hawley (Missouri) ... Had been against, but is now YES on the BBB
Was bought by inserting $1 Billion in funding for Missourians suffering from radiation exposure related to the nuclear weapons development in the 1940s during Manhattan Project. He also implies that language regarding Medicaid changes has been changed so as not to be detrimental to Missourians.

Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) ... has repeatedly expressed concerns about the legislation, citing deep cuts to Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).

 

[Voluntarist]

 

[Occam's Banana]

Schumer is a raving hypocrite, and fuck him, and all that - but I am approve these shenanigans.

 

[nikcers]

Senate voted 51-49 to open debate on the 940-page megabill.

Can they pass it?

 

[Voluntarist]

PROVISION: Sale of Public Lands

The provisions for sale of public lands was introduced into the Senate version of the BBB by Mike Lee (Utah). The provision would have required the Department of the Interior to sell 0.25%–0.5% of Bureau of Land Management (BLM) lands across 11 Western states. The goal was to increase housing supply by opening federal lands near urban areas to private development. The provision faced bipartisan backlash, including from Republicans like Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-MT), who called it a “red line”.

The Senate parliamentarian stripped the original version for a violation of what’s known as the Byrd rule, a Senate rule that budget bills stick to issues that impact the budget. But Lee submitted two new versions, the latest of which his office confirmed had passed the Byrd rule.

Late on 28JUN, Mike Lee pulled the public lands sale provisions from the BBB, citing that because of the strict constraints of the budget reconciliation process, he was unable to “secure clear, enforceable safeguards to guarantee that these lands would be sold only to American families.”

 

[Brian4Liberty]

PROVISION: Sale of Public Lands

The provisions for sale of public lands was introduced into the Senate version of the BBB by Mike Lee (Utah). The provision would have required the Department of the Interior to sell 0.25%–0.5% of Bureau of Land Management (BLM) lands across 11 Western states. The goal was to increase housing supply by opening federal lands near urban areas to private development. The provision faced bipartisan backlash, including from Republicans like Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-MT), who called it a “red line”.

The Senate parliamentarian stripped the original version for a violation of what’s known as the Byrd rule, a Senate rule that budget bills stick to issues that impact the budget. But Lee submitted two new versions, the latest of which his office confirmed had passed the Byrd rule.

Late on 28JUN, Mike Lee pulled the public lands sale provisions from the BBB, citing that because of the strict constraints of the budget reconciliation process, he was unable to “secure clear, enforceable safeguards to guarantee that these lands would be sold only to American families.”

Yeah, Mike has been listening a lot to concerns about how the public lands would be sold, and to whom.

Probably best to pull it from this pork filled farce.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

I love that all the people who shat on this bill from the very beginning are whining and complaining that all these good aspects of it are being removed.

Not sure what your point is here. It's somehow hypocritical to criticize a bad bill when it gets worse?

 

[nikcers]

Yeah, Mike has been listening a lot to concerns about how the public lands would be sold, and to whom.

Probably best to pull it from this pork filled farce.

Well who gets it and will they buy it and just sit on it or charge people money to sit on it and not develop it like some sort of protection racket.

Our housing market is rigged. Even the algorithms were caught price fixing. People are making a lot of money on this problem not getting fixed.

Better border security definitely helps though and its in the bill. Less people coming here will create lower demand and will lower prices.

 

[Voluntarist]

PROVISION: Writing Off Whaling Expenses As Charitable Contributions
Obvious pork geared towards winning Murkowski's vote.

There’s a surprising winner in the latest draft of Senate Republicans’ domestic policy megabill: whaling boat captains.

Buried in the 940-page bill is a provision upping a deduction some can take for whale-hunting-related expenses to $50,000 from the current $10,000.

It’s one of the more unusual breaks in the tax code, and often mocked because it allows people to deduct the cost of maintaining boats and weapons as a charitable contribution.

But it’s long been important to Alaskan lawmakers. Spokespersons for Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

The provision comes as lawmakers released last night the latest draft of the tax, energy, defense and immigration bill they hope to push onto President Donald Trump’s desk by early next month.

The deduction was added to the code in 2004. In order to claim the benefit, the IRS says someone has to be recognized as a whaling captain by the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission and must be engaged in the sanctioned, subsistence hunting of bowhead whales.

 

[Voluntarist]

PROVISION: Waiver For Non-Contiguous States
Guess who's vote this one is targeted at getting
This is fine tuning on the revision to cuts in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).

The plan explicitly allows states to choose between using data from fiscal years 2025 or 2026 to calculate the states’ match for fiscal 2028. In fiscal 2029 and beyond, the match will be calculated based on the error rate from three fiscal years before.

However, the new bill also includes a “waiver authority” section that could allow for noncontiguous states, or Alaska and Hawaii, to see the requirements waived if they’re found to be “actively implementing a corrective action plan” and carrying out other activities to reduce their error rate.

 

[Voluntarist]

Schumer is a raving hypocrite, and fuck him, and all that - but I am approve these shenanigans.

It's being read now.
... it's somewhat like listening to a tobacco auctioneer.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

 

[Anti Federalist]

The “Republicans” in the Senate just removed The SHORT Act which would remove Short Barreled Rifles, and other such guns from the NFA.

You are at war with the people you elected. It’s always the Republicans like @JohnCornyn who are coming for your gun rights.

These are the same serpents that want you to remove Thomas Massie from office.

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