Republicans Ride Big Beautiful Budget Rocket

The deadly 'big beautiful' budget bill will turn America into a morgue

In a shameful display of political malice, Republicans in the Senate have rammed through what they proudly call the “big beautiful bill;” however, it is a monumental betrayal of vulnerable Americans, as well as a death sentence.Under the banner of permanent tax cuts for Trump’s wealthy cronies and big defense contractor paydays, Republicans in the House and Senate, beholden only to Donald Trump and a ridiculously short deadline, engineered a blu…

Did the Swamp RUIN the Big Beautiful Bill?

Rep. Chip Roy warns that the Senate's changes to Trump's tax bill are not what was promised. Will the reforms be cut back? Read more here.

Arizona Democratic Rep. Yassamin Ansari reads nearly 1,000 pages of the GOP’s budget bill

Arizona Democratic Rep. Yassamin Ansari hosted a read-in on July 1 at the US Capitol, where she and fellow House members, activists, veterans and students read the nearly 1,000 pages of the GOP’s budget bill. She and others started reading at 8 a.m. and continued reading the bill line by line, highlighting its “devastating” impacts on healthcare, education, and housing. “Trump and Republicans’ reconciliation bill is a complete disaster for the f…

​​​​The GOP’s Cruel Budget and the Authoritarianism Behind the “Big Beautiful Bill”​​​

There is unprecedented ugliness in what Republicans call their Big Beautiful Bill. The budget bill smashes healthcare, imperils rural hospitals, crushes America’s badly needed energy infrastructure, lavishes funding on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to raise a private army and set up ​​detention camps, balloons the deficit, and dispenses tax cuts to the wealthiest Americans, exacerbating extreme inequality. If budgets are moral docum…