June 9th, 2025.

At 1019 last night, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller posted on social media,

Stand with ICE, pass the big beautiful bill.

And there it is. The Republicans' one big, beautiful bill

is the MAGA regime's attempt to replace the American government we've had since the 1930s

with one that reflects the anti-democratic values of Project 2025. The measure is unpopular. According to a new CBS News U-Gov poll, 60% of Americans

think the bill will help wealthy people, while 54% think it will hurt poor people. 47% think it will

hurt the middle class, while only 31% think it will help the middle class.

As Simon Rosenberg of Hopium Chronicles noted, it's stunning how badly Trump and the Republicans

have lost the debate on what their reconciliation bill will do.

The measure changes the nature of the American government by extending tax cuts for the wealthy

corporations and adding significantly more money to immigration enforcement and defense spending.

According to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, the measure will add as much as $2.4 trillion

to the deficit over 10 years. With interest costs of that new debt,

the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget concluded the measure would increase the debt by nearly

$3 trillion. At the same time that it moves money upward and into the White Nationalist Project

of expelling immigrants, the measure guts federal

policies and agencies that serve the American people, apparently with the goal of pushing

such policies and agencies to the states. The CBO estimates that as many as 13.7 million Americans

will lose health care coverage if the measure passes,

and cuts of nearly $300 billion from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program

will mean cuts of about 30 percent to the programs on which millions of Americans depend.

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