Yeah, this bill is so big that it hits the PAYGO trip wire, which forces mandatory cuts to Medicare. I'd expect Congress to waive that, but it just points to how expensive this bill is.
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Slowly and then all at once.
jul 3, 2025, 7:47 pm • 26 1 • view
Will refugees be denied SNAP assistance starting tomorrow, assuming Trump signs it tomorrow?
jul 3, 2025, 7:49 pm • 1 0 • view
SNAP is administered by the states, so this will be up to each state about how it wants to handle it. The language linking SNAP and immigration status did not survive the Senate's "Byrd bath" to approve reconciliation text.
jul 3, 2025, 7:55 pm • 14 1 • view
Yes, and the goal of this bill was to force states into tough decisions and forcing their hand to have to cut programs.
jul 3, 2025, 8:07 pm • 1 0 • view
Phase in starts in 2028.
jul 3, 2025, 7:57 pm • 11 3 • view
Well of course the deadly cuts start AFTER the midterms. Lull the rubes to sleep, then attack them, as the old dictator's playbook goes.
jul 3, 2025, 8:10 pm • 1 0 • view
That's right. We have a piece publishing momentarily that will get into some of this in greater detail.
jul 3, 2025, 8:05 pm • 7 2 • view
That’d have required Jeffries to go for ~30 hours. The record for all of Congress is Cory Booker’s 25+ hours. Booker spent several days preparing his body for that feat. Jeffries didn’t have that kinds prep time. His speech broke records set by Pelosi and McCarthy. Pelosi did her’s in heels.
jul 3, 2025, 8:26 pm • 19 3 • view
Yeah, it would have been incredibly difficult and taken a monstrous effort. Honestly, though, this bill seriously called for it if anything did.
jul 3, 2025, 8:30 pm • 0 0 • view
I appreciate the heels 👠 nod - the Ginger Rogers of Congress.
jul 3, 2025, 8:29 pm • 0 0 • view
Not by an administration, but by Congress, sure.
jul 3, 2025, 8:33 pm • 32 4 • view
I look forward to President Ocasio-Cortez signing that bill, though.
jul 3, 2025, 8:41 pm • 0 0 • view
That’s right.
jul 3, 2025, 9:52 pm • 41 3 • view
🤢
jul 4, 2025, 12:34 pm • 0 0 • view
Older Dems must step down and let new generation fight for their future!!
jul 3, 2025, 10:04 pm • 6 1 • view
@kenklippenstein.bsky.social
jul 3, 2025, 9:56 pm • 0 0 • view
By all means, let’s keep electing geriatrics to represent us
jul 3, 2025, 9:53 pm • 2 0 • view
Can you confirm that the nuclear tax credits from IRA will be ended?
jul 3, 2025, 8:08 pm • 0 0 • view